Melissa Jefferson-Wooden became only the second woman to win a world sprint treble after leading the United States to 4x100 metres relay gold on Sunday, with Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce taking silver in her final race.

Jefferson-Wooden matched Fraser-Pryce's achievement from the 2013 world championships in Moscow by adding to the 100m and 200m titles that she bagged in Tokyo.

She led off the race in driving rain before handing off to her team-mate Twanisha Terry before Kayla White ran the bend and Sha'Carri Richardson took the baton across the line in a time of 41.75sec.

"I did what I wanted to do individually and then came back together with my girls, my training partners, and we were all able to walk away with the gold medal, so I'm really happy about that," said Jefferson-Woode

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