This, as they booked their spot in Sunday’s showpiece event, after finishing tops in their heat on Saturday.
Cherokee Young, running from lane eight, ran the lead leg for the Jamaicans handing off to Nickesha Pryce, who ran a well-paced leg to send Shiann Salmon on her way.
Salmon did well to maintain the gap for Stacey-Ann Williams, who only had to run steady and true to take the team home in a new world leading time 3:22.74.
They won ahead of Canada (3:23.29), with Netherlands (3:23.75) taking the third automatic qualifying spot.
Great Britain won the second heat in 3:23.33, ahead of the favourites United States, who were later disqualified via Technical Rule 24.7, as they passed the baton outside the takeover zone.
That meant Belgium (3:23.63) and Italy (3:23.86) got second and third respectively, while Poland (3:24.05) and Ireland (3:26.18) got the two fastest non-automatic qualifying spots.
The final will be the curtain-call event of the nine-day Championships at 2:47pm Jamaica time.
Catch live action of the 2023 World Athletics Championships by downloading the Sportsmax App.
The Jamaican quartet of Demish Gaye, Natoya Goule-Toppin, Malik James-King and Stacey-Ann Williams, running in that order, struggled from the off and was at the back of the pack for the first two legs.
In fact, it was on the third leg that James King tried to force the initiative and gradually made progress, but faded in the latter stages, leaving Williams with much to do on anchor.
Despite facing an uphill task, Williams showed grit and determination to bring Jamaicans from eighth into fifth and ninth across the two heats in a season’s best 3:14.05.
They finished behind the Femke Bol led Dutch team, who won in 3:12.12, followed by France (3:12.25) and Czech Republic (3:12.52), with fourth-placed Germany taking one of the non-automatic qualifying spots.
United States with a World lead 3:10.41, Great Britain, with a national record 3:11.19, Belgium (3:11.81) and Ireland (3:13.90), are the other finalists.
You can catch live action of the 2023 World Athletic Championships by downloading the Sportsmax App.
The 27-year-old Jamaican, the reigning Olympic champion, ran a season-best 13.08 which left the USA’s Devon Allen (13.32) and Frenchman Wilhelm Belocian (13.34) trailing in his wake. Only World Champion Grant Holloway’s 13.07 is faster this year.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn set a meet record in the 100m hurdles running 12.44 for a convincing victory. Poland’s Pia Skrsyzowska was miles behind in 12.80. Italy’s Elisa Maria Di Lazzaro was third in 13.00. Jamaica’s Megan Tapper, in Europe preparing for her country’s national championships at the end of the month, ran a modest 13.05 for fifth.
The meet opened with a world-record run by Hassan who completed the 10,000m in 29:06.82. The first seven across the line all ran personal bests but the Kenyan pair of Irine Jepchumba Kimais took second place in 30:37.24 while just managing to hold off Daisy Cherotich, who clocked 3:37.31.
Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith set a new meet record while winning the 100m for women in 10.92. She led from the gun to the tape to see off the challenge of Blessing Okgabare. The Nigerian was second in 11.01 just ahead of Daryll Neita, who ran a personal best of 11.04.
South Africa’s Isaac Makwala won the 200m in 20.37 over Eseosa Fostine Desalu (20.63) and Frenchman Christophe LeMaitre (20.79).
In the 400m, the USA’s Fred Kerley won in 44.74. Jochim Dobber of the Netherlands was second in 45.51 with Liemarvin Bonevacia third in 45.77.
The meet ended on a high when Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis cleared 6.10m to win the pole vault and then attempted 6.19m, which had he cleared it, would have been a world record. However, the height was too much for him on this day.
Only two men have cleared higher outdoors – Duplantis and the USSR’s Sergey Bubka
