Australia’s 4 x 400m men’s relay squad have claimed bronze at the Berlin World Athletics Championships.
Ben Offereins ran with John Steffensen, Tristan Thomas and Sean Wroe in the fnial, finishing third behind the United States and Britain in a time of 3:00.90.
The bronze medal was Australia’s fourth of the championships, finishing with two golds and two bronzes.
John Steffensen repaced Joel Milburn in the relay team for the medal race and ran the lead-off leg before handing over to Offereins.
Offereins repeated his semi-final heroics, lifting Australia to third place from deep in the field before passing the baton to 400m hurdles specialist Thomas.
Thomas briefly passed Britain’s third-leg runner Robert Tobin, but Australia were still in third place at the final change.
The top three placings remained unchanged in the final leg with Wroe running strongly to ensure Australia would finish on the podium.
The Americans went into the race as hot favourites with individual 400m gold and silver medallists LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner forming an imposing USA team.
Merritt anchored the Americans home in time of 2:57.86