The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have seen the first eight teams qualify for each of the five disciplines being contested at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24. On Saturday, teams in the women’s and men’s 4x100m and 4x400m events, as well as the mixed 4x400m, automatically qualified for places at the Olympics through their performance in Nassau.
The mixed 4x400m heats set a record-breaking pace, with eight teams finishing inside the previous championship record in the first round alone. In addition to this, three nations – France, Great Britain & Northern Ireland, and the USA – each qualified four teams for Paris. Canada, Italy, and Poland each qualified three teams.
Teams will compete for prize money and Olympic lane seeding positions in Sunday’s finals. All other teams will race in an additional round, with the top two teams in each heat also qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Following these qualifications made in Nassau, there are still two remaining places for Paris in each discipline that will be awarded based on top lists during the qualification period from December 31st to June 30th.
Among those who have qualified are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain & NI