Allyson Felix moved clear of the great Carl Lewis to become the most decorated United States track and field athlete of all time as a star-studded American team claimed women’s 4x400m gold for the seventh successive time.
Felix, 35, combined with 400m hurdles gold and silver medallists Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad and 800m champion Athing Mu in a dominant 3:16.85 victory ahead of Poland and Jamaica.
It is Felix’s 11th Olympic medal, a run that started with 200m silver as a 22-year-old at Beijing 2008.
Britain’s quartet, consisting of Ama Pipi, Jodie Williams, Emily Diamond and Nicole Yeargin, finished fifth.
The United States men’s team repeated the women’s success as Rai Benjamin, 400m hurdles silver medallist, anchored them home to gold, ahead of the Netherlands and Botswana.
Neeraj Chopra won India’s first track and field gold in Olympic history as his effort of 87.58m trumped Czech pair Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely in the javelin.
The final athletics gold of the Games went to Mariya Lasitskene, one of 10 Russians allowed to compete under her Olympic Committee flag, as the 28-year-old added her first Olympic gold to three world titles.
Lasitskene wobbled at 1.96m, which she only cleared at the third attempt, but went on to go over 2.04m, the highest of any woman this year.
Australia’s Nicola McDermott claimed an emotional silver ahead Ukrainian 19-year-old Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
