Athletics lovers had to stay up late from Saturday to Sunday to experience the first day of the World Relay Championships in the Bahamas, where the teams from all the participating countries competed in the first series in the five relays with two prizes for the first two classified: place in the final on Sunday and direct ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
4×400 meters mixed
Those chosen for the mixed 4×400 meters opened the World Cup, with big stars on the lists. In this category the Olympic places went to: Netherlands (with Femke Bol exhibition), Dominican Republic, United States, Nigeria, Ireland, Belgium, Poland and France.
Countries like will have to wait for the play-offs. Botswana, who used Shaunae Miller-Uibo too early, Jamaica or Spain, fifth in their series with a ‘B’ team with three sub-23 category athletes. 3:15.47 for David García Zurita, Blanca Hervás, Julio Arenas and Carmen Avilés. Tomorrow they will seek to win one of the 6 places at stake in the repechage series.
women’s 4×100 meters
One of the great assets of the Spanish delegation in the Caribbean is the women’s 4×100, which was coming off a historic victory at the Penn Relays in the United States last week. After four clean runs, Paula Sevilla, Sonia Molina-Prados, Maribel Pérez and Jaël Bestué achieved the third best Spanish mark in history with a time of 42 seconds and 85 hundredths.
Bad fortune led the Spanish team to the most difficult of all the series and they were fourth, after Germany, Australia (with a continent record) and Ivory Coast. It is the fastest cutting time of the day and, in any other series, the Spanish would have achieved automatic passage.
women’s 4×400 meters
Eva Santidrián, Berta Segura, Herminia Parra and Laura Bueno and finish their first appearance in the Bahamas with a more than remarkable time: 3:31.09, with a great post by Berta Segura, fourth in their series. Italy, Canada, Ireland (with Adeleke and Mawdsley doing a double with the mixed team), Great Britain, Poland, France, the United States and Norway (with a national record) took direct passes to Paris 2024.
men’s 4×100 meters
Hit the United States table with a best world record of the year in 37.89 seconds, with Noah Lyles closing in the fourth post. Hand in hand with him, Italy, France, Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Japan and China are on their way to the final.
Arnau Monne, Sergio López, Dani Rodríguez and Guillem Crespí could do very little to solve an obstacle of this size. Complicated day at the office, but seventh place in her series for absolute short magazines, with 39.35 seconds. Sunday’s event will be complicated for the hectometer specialists, where the Spaniards will look for a place in Paris.
men’s 4×400 meters
The loss of Óscar Husillos due to a technical decision (presumably with physical problems) It was the big surprise of the men’s 4x400m. Iñaki Cañal, Lucas Búa, Manuel Guijarro and Bernat Ertathey faced athletes of the caliber of Wayde van Niekerk, 400m world record holder, or Letsile Tebogo, 300m world record holder, in a very complicated series for the interests of Spain.
A tough second post for Lucas Búa, blocked in lane 1 and in which the relievers (French and Indian) were injured, left Spain in a very complicated position which turned out to be insurmountable. The ‘Spanish Beatles’ entered fifth at the finish line and will have to wait until Sunday to seek their Olympic place.
The direct places for the Paris Olympic Games went to: Germany (with a brutal 44.24 final by Agyekum), Japan, Belgium, Nigeria, Italy, Great Britain, South Africa and Botswana, with a huge time of 43.49 seconds by Letsile Tebogo.
Tomorrow, the outcome
In the early hours of Sunday to Saturday, starting at 01:05 with the repechage rounds and at 03:40 with the finals, this Bahamas Relay World Cup will close. Spain will seek Olympic places with its five teams in the repechage series (there will be six places available).
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Álvaro García is a journalism student at the Complutense University of Madrid whose passion is communication and sports. Especially sports communication.
He fell in love with the sport at the age of three, watching the Beijing Olympic Games in a small hotel in Fuerteventura. Since she was given a typewriter at the age of 12, she has not stopped writing articles about all the sports disciplines he knows. In this way he realized that he wanted to be a journalist very early and decided to found his own sports magazine, Chapman. Magazine in which they discuss topics related to current sports news such as football, basketball, tennis and athletics, among other specialties.
Thanks to this, he has been accredited in RFEA and World Athletics competitions, FIBA World Cups, ACB League, Ice Hockey World Cups, X-Trial, rugby matches at the Metropolitano and many other events that he previously followed on television.
He has the habit (or habit) of shaking hands and introducing himself to colleagues and athletes. And he is a fan of Sunday sports, watching on the couch and playing with friends on the first available field.
He currently runs the Runner’s World networks and writes about current events in the world of athletics on the weekends.
