BERLIN, Germany (CMC) – Jamaica majestically crowned their sprinting prowess at the 12th IAAF World Championship by dashing to both 4×100-metre relay gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Stadium last evening.

After the Jamaican girls stormed to a 42.06 second victory in their sprint relay final, the Jamaican men’s unit – headed by the astounding Usain Bolt – delivered a scorching championship record 37.31 seconds for gold in the men’s equivalent.

The double triumph gave Jamaica five of the six sprint titles on offer on the track, since they had already taken both men’s sprints (100 and 200) through Bolt and the women’s 100 via Shelly-Ann Fraser.

It also allowed them to match the USA with gold medals won here. Both teams have seven gold and while the Americans have tallied 17 medals in all to lead, the Jamaicans have 12 to be second on the grid.

The Jamaicans led magnificent Caribbean one-two finishes in both sprint relay events on the penultimate day of the meet.

The Bahamas clocked 42.29 seconds for the silver medal in the women’s event and Trinidad and Tobago clocked a national record 37.62 to take the runner-up spot – like they did at the Beijing Olympics a year ago – in the men’s 4×100-metre relay.

Jamaica’s women’s team did not include top sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown but Simone Facey, Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Kerron Stewart posted a solid four legs and were hardly threatened.

Their main threats, the USA, had been eliminated in the earlier semi-final heats.

“I think the race was wonderful, we had fun, we were always being cautious and we executed (well) and we just had fun,” Fraser said.

Bailey, the sister of Reggae Dancehall star Capleton, joined in the celebration.

“It means a lot to us and our country, so we just went out there and executed,” she said.

The Jamaican girls had looked fluent from the semis a couple of hours earlier using the same team to post the second fastest in the world so far this year and season’s best of 41.88 seconds.

World leaders and two-time defending champions USA were eliminated in the semi-finals when they failed to finish after an injury to third-leg runner Muna Lee.

At the end of a clumsy and badly fumbled hand-off from Alexandria Anderson, Lee hurt her hamstring after a couple of strides and fell to the track in a tragic repeat of their sprint relay misfortune at the Beijing Olympics a year ago, when both their men’s and women’s sprint relay teams crashed out with baton-changing problems.

The USA men’s sprint relay team here had been disqualified on Friday.

The Bahamian team running into second spot – Sheniqua Ferguson, Chandra Sturrup, Christine Amertil, and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie – and they were well clear of Germany (42.87) in the bronze medal position.

“I had faith in the team from the beginning,” Ferguson-McKenzie said.

“It’s about (getting) the stick (around), not about the four fastest people and that’s what we executed today,” she added.

T&T’s women finished seventh in 43.43 seconds.

In the men’s final, Trinidad and Tobago served up a stiff challenge to the Olympic champions Jamaica and it took a strong run by Bolt on the third leg and former world record holder Asafa Powell on anchor to ensure the Jamaicans secured the meet record and their first ever World Championship title in the event.

The time was the second fastest in history and Bolt, who has now – stretching from Beijing last year — swept an awesome six consecutive gold medals from six events at major global events declared that he was now ready to party, having concluded his assignment in Berlin.

“For me I am hoping that I can get to go out tonight, I’ve done well and I deserve to have one night of partying, so I am going out and enjoy myself tonight, ” Bolt said.

“It was good, I am just proud of myself,” added Bolt, a day after celebrating his 23rd birthday.

The Jamaicans, with Steve Mullings and Michael Frater completing their quartet, were 0.21 seconds outside the world record they set in Beijing.

The experienced Darrel Brown ran lead-off for T&T and handed to Marc Burns with Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson taking it home.

“Darrel got out really well and it just kept flowing from there,” Thompson said.

The Beijing Olympics 100m silver medallist conceded that the Jamaicans were better on the day but declared he was very pleased with his team’s effort.

“The truth is that the Jamaica team were better speed-wise leg for leg and we knew once they got their stick around it would be hard for anyone else to match them based on what they had, but we did perfectly well with what we had and we are very satisfied with the national record,” Thompson said.

After their sprint relay disaster, the proud Americans immediately set about redeeming themselves in the 4×400-metre relays.

Their men took the first event on the track after the USA’s sprint relay demise, Heat 1 of the men’s 1600-metre relay in three minutes, 01.40 seconds to be the quickest into today’s final.

They defeated France (3:01.65) and Great Britain (3:01.91).

The Bahamas suffered the first of two stinging disqualifications when their men placed second in Heat 2 behind Belgium but were relegated because of an infringement.

Jamaica (3:04.45) were promoted to fifth in the heat but failed to advance.

In the women’s 4×400 relay, the Bahamas were disqualified in Heat 1, won by the USA (3:29.31) ahead of Nigeria (3:29.60).

Russia (3:23.80) then won over Jamaica (3:24.72) in the far quicker Heat 2 for the pair to be among the fastest teams into today’s final.

Also making headlines yesterday was Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk who set a new World record in the Hammer, throwing 77.96 metres.

The 24-year-old Pole broke the previous record of 77.80m set by Russian Tatyana Lysenko in 2006.

Kenya’s Abel Kirui captured the men’s marathon in a championship record two hours, 6 minutes, 54 seconds and other gold medal winners included Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot (14:57.97) in the women’s 5 000 metres, Australian Steven Hooker (5.90m) in the men’s Pole Vault, and American Dwight Phillips (8.54m) in the men’s long jump.