By Tom Fordyce BBC chief sports writer at the Olympic Stadium

Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the 2012 Olympics as he anchored Jamaica’s sprint relay team to a sensational world record.

Jamaica’s quartet clocked 36.84 seconds to smash the old mark by two-tenths of a second and leave the USA team with silver.

Nesta Carter and Michael Frater produced excellent first and second legs but it was 100m and 200m silver medallist Yohan Blake’s blistering third leg that set the platform.

Bolt provided the perfect finale – exploding away to leave Ryan Bailey trailing as the capacity crowd stood to acclaim him.

Canada were initially given bronze before being disqualified when third-leg runner Jared Connaughton was seen to have stepped inside his lane, meaning Trinidad and Tobago were promoted to third place.

Bolt’s gold meant he matched his haul from the Beijing Olympics and he now has six Olympic golds before his 26th birthday.

It was a fitting way to conclude a wonderful nine days of athletics in the Olympic Stadium.

Bolt has once again been the star of these Games, and in celebrating with a “Mobot”  as he crossed the line paid tribute to the great home track hero of the past fortnight, Mo Farah.

Colin Jackson BBC Sport athletics pundit wrote:

“It was electric. The atmosphere in the stadium was electric and it was all because of this race. The big difference was when Blake received the baton he tore around the bend – and he was up against Tyson Gay! Usain Bolt was watching that clock all the way down the home straight.”

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