Welwyn Garden City athlete Jodie Williams gets bronze in Paris

The quartet of Victoria Ohuruogu, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Amber Anning made it five relay medals from five finals for GB with bronze.

And although she was not in the final, Welwyn Garden City's Jodie Williams will claim a medal too after participating in the heats.

It quickly became clear in the final that no-one was going to catch a dominant US team.

The had 200m individual gold medallist Gabby Thomas and hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who lowered her own world record earlier this week, in the squad.

It instead became a dogged battle for silver and bronze after Anning pulled Great Britain into second on the back straight.

But, as she approached the finish, she found herself in a neck-and-neck battle with the Netherlands and Ireland.

USA took gold in three minutes 15.27 seconds and the Dutch claimed silver.

However, Anning held firm to claim bronze in 3:19.72.

Jamaica had also been in the mix, but ruled themselves out of contention in the second leg when Andrenette Knight lost the baton after bumping into Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke.