GOLD RSA - South Africa <br />RADEBE Samkelo SMITH Zivan FOURIE Arnu PISTORIUS Oscar<br />SILVER CHN - People's Republic of China <br />LIU Zhiming LIU Fuliang XIE Hexing ZHAO Xu<br />BRONZE GER - Germany <br />REHM Heinrich BEHRE David CZYZ Wojtek<br /><br />Oscar PISTORIUS (RSA) clinched his first gold medal of the London<br />2012 Paralympic Games when he anchored South Africa to victory in the<br />T42/T46 men's 4x100m relay in world record 41.78 seconds in the Olympic<br />Stadium on Wednesday.<br /><br />Samkelo RADEBE, Zivan SMITH and Arnu FOURIE combined over the first<br />three legs to give PISTORIUS a fractional advantage over Brazil but<br />lined up three lanes inside him was Alan OLIVEIRA (BRA), who had<br />sensationally beaten PISTORIUS to the individual T44 200m title on<br />Sunday.<br /><br />However, this time there was to be no upset as PISTORIUS powered down<br />the home straight while OLIVEIRA failed to reproduce the stunning late<br />surge that took him past his South African rival in the final metres the<br />last time the pair met in London 2012, which prompted PISTORIUS's now<br />infamous comments about the legality of OlIVEIRA's running blades.<br />BRAZIL were disqualified after the race had been concluded for a<br />baton-passing violation, leaving China to take the silver medals in an<br />Asian record 42.98.<br /><br />PISTORIUS said "We smashed that world record. Each guy here did his job. I said to the guys to stay calm and focused."<br /><br />Alan Fonteles Cardoso OLIVEIRA (BRA) said about Brazil being disqualified:<br />"We are very disappointedabout this because we had the result and were celebrating. It's so disappointing to be disqualified after everything."<br /><br />For further information, please visit http://www.paralympic.org. To watch live action and videos on demand of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and subscribe to ParalympicSport.TV, please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV. Also, you may follow the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
