The Canadian women’s and men’s 4 x 100 metre relay teams booked their tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games during the Olympic qualifying first round of the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas. The men won in 38.11s and the women placed second overall with a season’s best time of 42.98s..

Sade McCreath, Marie-Éloise Leclair, Audrey Leduc, and Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye ran with Emmanuel-Ahye anchoring and finishing in a tight bunch of five finishers all within half a second of each other.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, Monika Romaszko, Magdalena Steganowicz, and Ewa Swoboda of Poland finished first in the time of 42.81. China with athletes Xiaojing Liang, Manqi Ge, Qiqi Yuan, and Yuting Li finished third in the time of 43.03. They competed in the second heat of four in the Olympic Qualifying round.

Germany, Great Britain & NI and the US won their respective rounds.

McCreath has run the 100-metre event as fast as 11.21 seconds. He team performance in the Bahamas is listed as her 4 x 100m relay Emmanuel-Ahye personal best. Leclair, more of a 200m runners owns a best of 11.42. Like Mcreath, this 4 x 100m relay performances was the fastest that she has been involved with during her career.

The team ran on the strength of Leduc, who recently broke Angela Bailey’s (10.98) national record from 1987 going 10.96. Emmanuel-Ahye has run as fast as 11.11.

France, Australia and the Netherlands also qualified for the Paris Games.

Men

As expected, Team Canada’s 4x100m men’s relay team also secured their spot for the Paris 2024 Olympics. They finished first in their heat crossing the line with a Season’s Best time of 38.11s.

Andre de Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney took the win in Heat 3. The US won Heat 1 in 37.49s. France won Heat 2 in 38.32 and Japan took Heat 4 in 38.10s.

Also qualifying for the Olympics were: Italy (38.14 Heat 1), GB & NI (38.36 Heat 2), Jamaica (38.50 Heat 3) and China (38.25 Heat 4).

Full results

The first two teams of each heat qualify for the Paris Olympic Games. Round two for the World Championships goes Sunday.

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