Saturday’s first qualifying spherical races on the 2024 World Athletic Relays within the Bahamas have been full of pleasure, as Canada noticed three groups rise to the event on the world stage and earn spots on this summer time’s Olympic Video games in Paris.
The entire members of Staff 🇨🇦 in Nassau, Bahamas for the 2024 World Athletics Relays @wabahamas24 💨
Tous les membres de l’équipe 🇨🇦 à Nassau, Bahamas pour les relais mondiaux d’athlétisme 2024 @WABahamas24 💨 pic.twitter.com/TcBw36DdZC
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) Could 4, 2024
Stakes have been excessive on day one in Nassau, as groups had a preliminary shot at immediately incomes their Olympic spot. Canada had despatched 5 relay groups throughout the 5 race disciplines, and after Saturday’s races, three groups had succeeded on their Paris-bound mission. The lads’s and girls’s 4×100 relays and the ladies’s 4×400 relay every positioned inside the first two of their respective heats, which implies an computerized qualification for Paris.
Coming in fifth with a time of three:05.04, Canada’s males’s 4×400 didn’t qualify robotically; they nonetheless have a shot, with finals happening Sunday night.
The Canadian blended 4×400 staff additionally got here fifth of their warmth.
How the Olympic {qualifications} have performed out to this point
Within the ladies’s 4×400, the Canadian quartet of Zoe Sherar, Aiyanna Stiverne, Kyra Constatine and Alyssa Marsh positioned second of their warmth to each advance to the finals on Sunday night and earn their ticket to Paris.
Canada’s ladies’s 4×400 has traditionally faired effectively on the world stage, with current outcomes of fourth on the 2023 World Championships and fourth on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Sunday night’s race will give the ladies the chance to earn a medal and prize cash.
Staff Canada’s Ladies’s 4×400 Relay staff is formally Paris 2024 certain! 🇨🇦✈️
The quartet of Sherar, Constantine, Stiverne and Marsh introduced house the baton in 3:27.17 SB 👏
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) Could 5, 2024
The lads’s 4×100 staff of Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney and Jerome Blake gained their warmth in a time of 38.11. The star-studded staff has an opportunity to win the finals Sunday evening, in a race that can absolutely function a showdown with Staff USA, who ran yesterday’s quickest race in 37.49.
WHAT A PERFORMANCE 😤
After qualifying for a spot on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the 4×100 Males’s Relay staff can have an opportunity to win in tomorrow’s remaining 👀
Watch all of the motion reside on CBC Gem 💎
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) Could 5, 2024
The girl’s 4×100 staff of Sade McCreath, Marie-Éloïse Leclair, Audrey Leduc and Crystal Emmanuel edged out China for second of their warmth behind Poland.
“I believe my coronary heart stopped for a minute after which I simply realized, oh my God, we did it. We got here collectively and made it occur,” stated McCreath in a post-race interview.
What’s to come back
Each the 4×400 blended and males’s relays have an opportunity to qualify for Paris this night. The lads’s race offers Canada one remaining probability to qualify for the Olympics in that occasion for the primary time in 32 years, and after Saturday’s first spherical heats, the staff was keen to seek out redemption.
“Our 4×400 will probably be in Paris. I promise you,” Myles Misener-Daly informed the CBC in a post-race interview.
Full outcomes and data to look at tonight’s races could be discovered right here.
