Jeremy Wariner of the US runs to win the men's 4x400m relay final at the National stadium as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 23, 2008. The US team won ahead of the Bahamas and Russia. [Agencies]

BEIJING - The U.S. quartet won the men's 4x400 meters relay gold medal with a new Olympic record at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Saturday.

It is not a surprise for the U.S. team to win the race comfortably because the four athletes are all dominant figures in the Games.

Newly-crowned 400m champion LaShawn Merritt ran the first leg. The second was Angelo Taylor, twice Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008 in the 400m hurdles, and the third was David Neville, the 400m bronze winner and the anchor leg was run by Jeremy Wariner, the Athens champion and silver winner behind Merritt.

The U.S. finally won the race in two minutes 55.39 seconds, beating the previous Olympic record of 2:55.74, set by the U.S. team in the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Bahamas took the silver in 2:58.03 and Russia finished third in 2:58.06.