United States men's 4x400 relay wins gold

The United States wrapped up a medal-filled week at Rio’s Olympic Stadium by taking gold in the final track race of the Rio Games, the men’s 4×400-meter relay.

Team USA entered the night with 27 medals in track and field and added four more Saturday, to just fall short of the U.S. swim team’s 33. America’s track-and-field team won more medals by itself than every other country’s total except China, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, France and Germany.

A medal in the 4×400 was seen as almost a foregone conclusion, as the U.S. posted the second-best time in qualifying without LaShawn Merritt, the bronze medalist in the 400-meter dash. Merritt helped bring gold back to the U.S., as he had on the 4×400 team in 2008, following a silver medal in the London Games.

The U.S., with Arman Hall running the lead leg, Tony McQuay second and Gil Roberts handing off to Merritt, finished in 2:57.30. Jamaica (2:58.16) took silver, and Bahamas won bronze with a time of 2:58.49.

Of the 23 times the U.S. has run a 4×400 in the Olympics, it has medaled in 20. Seventeen of them have been gold.