British bronze as Bolt takes third gold

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Bolt ran the third leg as Jamaica's 4x100 metre relay team stormed to victory in a championship record of 37.31 seconds in the Olympic Stadium.

Trinidad and Tobago took silver in 37.62secs with Britain's quartet of Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey third in 38.02.

The British team had been the fastest qualifiers for the final, although only after pointing out an illegal changeover by the American quartet they had been second behind in the semi-finals.

With the Americans disqualified, that left the minor medals up for grabs, but Jamaica had rested Bolt and Asafa Powell in the heats and were always red-hot favourites to win with the individual 100m gold and bronze medallists restored to the side.

"I wasn't really thinking about getting three gold medals because I could be in better shape," insisted Bolt, who broke his own world records in the 100 and 200m with times of 9.58 and 19.19 respectively.

Devonish, the only survivor from Britain's victorious Olympic team in Athens, said: "It's lovely to share this experience with the guys but I've got a lot more to come. I'm just very proud of the guys, we've worked very hard for this."

In the women's 4x100m relay, the British quartet of Laura Turner, Montell Douglas, Emily Freeman and Emma Ania had qualified as one of the fastest losers from the semi-finals in 43.34 seconds. And although they went quicker in the final with a time of 43.16s, they were never in contention for the medals as Jamaica won gold ahead of the Bahamas and Germany.

There was further disappointment in the long jump as Greg Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson finished fifth and eighth respectively in the final. Rutherford recorded a best effort of 8.17m as American Dwight Phillips took gold with 8.54m.

Olympic champion Steve Hooker defied a thigh injury to win with the pole vault in 5.90m, with Steve Lewis seventh after clearing, while the men's 4x400m team of Conrad Williams, Rob Tobin, David Greene and Martyn Rooney and the women's quartet of Nicola Sanders, Vicki Barr, Jenny Meadows and Lee McConnell reached their respective finals.