The US quartet won the men's 4x400 meters relay gold medal with a new Olympic record at the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday.

It is not a surprise for the US team to win the race comfortably because the four athletes are all dominant figures in the Games.

Newly-crowned 400m champion LaShawn Merritt ran the first leg. The second was Angelo Taylor, twice Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008 in the 400m hurdles, and the third was David Neville, the 400m bronze winner and the anchor leg was run by Jeremy Wariner, the Athens champion and silver winner behind Merritt.

The US finally won the race in two minutes 55.39 seconds, beating the previous Olympic record of 2:55.74, set by the US team in the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Bahamas took the silver in 2:58.03 and Russia finished third in 2:58.06.

(Xinhua News Agency August 23, 2008)