Team USA Wins Gold in Women's 100-Meter Relay at Paris Olympics Anchored by Sha'Carri Richardson and Gabby Thomas

The win marks the first gold medal for Richardson, and the second for Thomas

The U.S. women's relay team brought home another gold at the Paris Olympics!

Team USA's relay team — Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry — won first place in the women's 4x100-meter relay final on Friday, Aug. 9 at Stade de France in Paris.

As a light rain fell, the group finished with a season-best time of 41.78 seconds to secure the gold medal, just .07 seconds ahead of the silver medal-winning Great Britain. Germany came in third with a time of 41.97 seconds.

The relay final marked some new hardware for Thomas, 27, Richardson, 24, and Jefferson, 23, and the first-ever medal for Terry, 25.

Thomas won gold on Tuesday, Aug. 6 in the women’s 200-meter final, crossing the finish line 0.25 seconds faster than runner-up Julien Alfred, who became Saint Lucia's first-ever gold medalist when she won the women's 100-meter final just days prior on Aug. 3.

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Richardson, meanwhile, won silver behind Alfred in the women's 100-meter final on Aug. 3. Jefferson finished third to secure the bronze medal.

After her gold medal victory on Tuesday, Thomas told reporters, including PEOPLE, that winning the gold feels "indescribable." The Harvard alum continued, "I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would become an Olympic gold medalist and I am one and I'm still kind of wrapping my head around that."

Thomas said the achievement is "six years in the making at least," adding, "All of it was for this moment. My coach told me everything we've done up until this point — Tokyo Olympics, World Championships, even my injured year 2022 — it was for this, so that I was prepared and I was mature and I was ready."

For Richardson, Paris marks her first Olympic Games after being disqualified from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She was suspended from Team USA after testing positive for THC.

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At the 2023 World Championships, Richardson broke the 100-meter world record and debuted her new motto: "I'm not back, I'm better."

In a December 2023 interview with PEOPLE, the Olympic sprinter said the slogan "comes from knowing" that she's "been in the world in a way that not necessarily is the way a lot of people could handle or really bounce back or survive."

“And the fact that I'm able to stand here and be the athlete I've been, I've been the woman I've been,” Richardson told PEOPLE. “I’m wiser. I'm calmer, I'm disciplined and I'm more focused on the responsibility that I have as well as my passion for what I do.”

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