Canada claims silver in men’s 4×100, USA snatches gold at world championships

Though unable to follow up on their massive Olympic success, the Canadian men’s relay team will still be leaving Japan with some hardware.

Canada claimed silver in the men’s 4×100-metre relay at the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo on Sunday, with the U.S.A. taking home gold.

The fourtet of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse, who came away with gold at the Paris Olympics last summer, ran a 37.55 — a season-best — just short of the 37.29 put up by the star-studded American group.

The Netherlands finished third with a 37.81.

It was a tight race, with Brown, Blake and Rodney keeping pace with the Americans on the rain-soaked track. But a clean handoff from Courtney Lindsey to sprinting superstar Noah Lyles sealed the Canadians’ fate.

Lyles, the world champ