In what was the most highly anticipated race of Glasgow 2014, Bolt anchored to a team of Jason Livermore, 100m gold medallist Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade.

Coming into the final change, Ashmeade was neck-and-neck with England's Richard Kilty.

But, as the baton passed to Bolt and England's to Danny Talbot, the six-time Olympic gold medallist surged ahead to bring the Jamaicans home 0.62 quicker than the Commonwealth Games record set by England at Kuala Lumpur in 1998. 

Jamaica's final time was almost half a second up on that of England's as Talbot and team mates Kilty, Adam Gemili and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey were left to settle for silver.

Rounding off the podium in third was Trinidad and Tobago, as the team of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Rondel Sorrillo and Richard Thompson came in just 0.08 behind England in a time of 38.10.

"I came out to do my best," said Bolt, who now completes his set of major titles following six Olympic titles and eight World Championship titles.

"This is my first year back from injury.

"This is my new gold medal.

"It completes my set.

"Everyone showed up and gave their best performances.

"Everything was perfect."

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce safely saw the baton home as Jamaica claimed yet more gold in the women's 4x100m relay ©Getty Images



In an action packed evening of track and field, Jamaica's women made it two for two in the 4x100m as Olympic and world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce matched Bolt's achievement by bringing home the gold in Games record of 41.83.

The team of Fraser-Pryce, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Schllionie Calvert and Kerron Stewart, powered to victory in the race, beating second placed Nigeria by over a second come the finish line.

Nigeria looked to be challenging for the gold on the final bend, however, with the baton safely in the hands of Fraser-Pryce, Nigeria were left to settle in the silver medal position.

England looked strong coming into the final 200m with Ashleigh Nelson eventually crossing the line in third in 43.10.

There was more medal success for England in both the 4x400m relays as anchor Matthew Hudson-Smith ran a superb final 400m to burst clear of the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago, and claim gold for himself, Daniel Awde, Michael Bingham and Conrad Williams.

Their time of 3min 00.46sec was just 0.05 ahead of the Olympic champions Bahamas in second, while Trinidad and Tobago claimed bronze.

It was further gold medal success for Jamaica in the women's equivalent of the 4x400m as 400m champion Stephanie McPhearson, silver medallist Novlene Williams- Mills, bronze medallist Christine Day and Anastasia Le-Roy clocked a Games record 3:23.82 to fend off a strong Nigeria charge.

Anyika Onuora led home England in third.

There was delight for Julius Kiplagat Yebo in the men's javelin as he shocked Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott to claim the gold ©Getty Images



The final evening of athletics action also proved bountiful for Kenya as they collected another three gold medals.

Julius Kiplagat Yego shocked the crowd when he won gold in the men's javelin competition ahead of London 2012 gold medallist Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago.

On a rain delayed day here in Glasgow, the pair only managed three successful throws between them, however, this was all that was needed for the Kenyan, as he recorded a distance of 83.87 metres to silence his Walcott.

The loss will be a bitter pill to swallow for Walcott after he threw an impressive 85.28m in qualifying last night, a distance further than that needed to take gold two years ago in London.

Despite this, he o could only record 82.67m in the final as he settled for silver, while Australia's Hamish Peacock finished third. 

A dramatic women's 5,000m final saw Mercy Cherono seal a yet more gold for Kenya as burst clear of the field in the final 100m to finish in a time of 15:07.21 and add Commonwealth gold to her 2013 World Championships silver medal.

A brilliant effort by England's Jo Pavey ensured the 40-year-old claimed bronze, as she recovered from an earlier burst to deny a Kenyan one, two, three.

She almost did enough to catch Kenya's Janet Kisa as the two went toe-to-toe on the line, in an tense and dramatic closing to the final.

After looking dead and buried, Pavey burst again in the final 100m, catching another Kenyan, Margaret Muruiki and getting within 0.06 of Kisa.

The two eventually finished on 15:08.90 and 15:08.96, with the Kenyan just a whisker in front.

Jo Pavey pulled off a wonder charge in the women's 5,000m to pip bronze and come agonisingly close to silver in a dramatic finish to the race ©Getty Images


It was another Kenyan one, two in the men's 1500m after James Kiplagat Magut claimed victory over team mate and defending champion Ronald Kwemoi in a time of 3:39.31.

Kwemoi came home just behind in 3:39.53 while New Zealand's claimed a third Commonwealth medal, following gold at Melbourne 2006 and bronze at Delhi 2006m with bronze here in Glasgow.

The men's triple jump competition was won by South Africa's Khotso Mokoena as he jumped a season's best of 17.20m to finish ahead of Nigeria's defending champion Tosin Oke.

India's Surpinder Surpinder Singh finished third.

Finally, defending champion Alana Boyd of Australia blew away the field in the women's pole vault to win with a height of 4.50m.

Sally Peake of Wales came in second on 4.25m, while Canada's Alysha Newman and England's Sally Scott shared bronze after clearing 3.80m

These four athletes were the only four to clear a single distance in the contest, with six other competitors failing to record a mark in a competition delayed by the torrential rain. 

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