The quartets of the Dominican Republic’s mixed 4x400m relay and Jamaica’s men’s 4x100m relay, both qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after their performances at the World Athletics Relays on Saturday night at the Thomas Augustus Robinson National Stadium in Nassau.

being the only Caribbean delegations to qualify to the next Olympic Games on the first day of this event.

Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic, worked very hard to give her country a new qualification to Paris 2024, after receiving the baton in the fifth position, and remained focused step by step, until in the last 50 meters, she was able to overtake the runner from Bahamas, to take second place in the first heat of the 4×400 mixed relay.

Paulino was the best runner in the last relay, timing 48.93 seconds, beating Femke Bol’s 49.54, where the Netherlands secured their ticket as the leaders of the qualifying round, setting a new record for the competition.

The first day of this competition offered 40 teams tickets to Paris 2024, where the United States, France and Great Britain qualified in four events, while Poland and Canada had three relays each, and several countries had two quartets qualifying for the games.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RETURNS TO OLYMPIC GAMES

The Dominican delegation of the mixed 4x400m relay will return to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, after being part of the debut of the event in Tokyo 2020, when on that occasion, they had runners Alexander Ogando, Marileidy Paulino, Lidio Feliz, Anabel Medina and Luguelín Santos, the latter being a reserve runner who competed in the preliminary phase, while Feliz replaced him in the final.

For this World Athletics Championship, Yeral Núñez was part of this team, together with the Olympic medalists of this event, Alexander, Anabel and Marileidy.

As in the past Olympic Games, the athletes are being guided by two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion, Felix Sanchez, and Cuban Yaseen Perez.

JAMAICA CONTINUES TO MAKE ITS MARK IN THE MEN’S RELAY

The two-time champions of the men’s 4×100-meter relay are returning to the Olympic Games for the 14th time, adding Paris 2024, having started in Tokyo 1964, when they placed fourth overall in this event at that Olympic Games.

Jamaica, owner of the world record set in London 2012 when it won the gold medal with a time of 38.64 seconds, repeated the dose of climbing to the top of the Olympic medal table in Rio 2016 in Brazil, by sealing the victory with a time of 37.27 seconds. In both Olympic titles, the legendary Usain Bolt was part of those quartets.

Bryan Levell, along with Kadrian Goldson, Ryiem Forde and Sandrey Davison, gave the ticket to Jamaica, who qualified on the first day along with Canada, which took first place in the third heat of this event.

WHAT’S ON TAP FOR SUNDAY

Starting at 7:05 p.m. local time, the playoffs for the teams that did not qualify for Paris 2024 will be held on Saturday evening at the same venue, the Thomas Augustus Robinson Stadium in Nassau.

Each of the five events will feature three heats, to determine the next teams to qualify for the Olympic Games, with tickets awarded to the first two places in each competition.

And starting at 9:40 p.m., the final of each relay will begin, where the final positions of the World Athletics Championship will be defined, important to distribute the economic amounts that World Athletics will award to each position, from the first to the eighth place.

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