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2024 World Athletics Relays
The 2024 World Athletics Relays was held in Nassau, Bahamas on 4 and 5 May 2024. Overview The first 3 editions of the IAAF World Relays (former name) have been held in the same site: 2014 IAAF World Relays, 2015 IAAF World Relays and 2017 IAAF World Relays. Nassau won the bid against Lausanne in November 2022, in Rome. The competition served as a qualifying event for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games from their respective NOCs, composed of the following: * 14: top fourteen teams of each event based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. The World Athletics Relays involved 32 national teams, in each relay event, and 20 races on both days of competition. On Day 1, which will qualify 40 teams for the Summer Olympics, there was 20 heats across the five Olympic events (4 heats each for 4 × 100, 4 × 400, men, women and mixed); the top two teams from each heat directly qualified for the Games. On Day 2, an additional 30 national teams were als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau ( ) is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. It is on the island of New Providence, which had a population of 246,329 in 2010, or just over 70% of the entire population of The Bahamas. As of April 2023, the preliminary results of the 2022 census of The Bahamas reported a population of 296,522 for New Providence, 74.26% of the country's population. Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, administration, and media of the country. Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for The Bahamas, is located about west of the city centre of Nassau, and has daily flights to and from major cities in Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various judicial departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named in honour of William III of England, Prince of Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Lyles
Noah Lyles (born July 18, 1997) is an American track and field Sprint (running), sprinter who competes in the 60 meters, 100 metres, 100 meters and 200 metres, 200 meters events. His personal best of 19.31 seconds in the 200 m is the List of United States records in track and field#Men, American record, and makes him the 200 metres#All-time top 25, third fastest of all-time. He is an Olympic champion and six-time World champion. In the 100 m, Lyles won the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, 2024 Olympic Games, is three-time world champion (2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, 4 × 100 m relay in 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2019, 2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, 100 m and 2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, 4 × 100 m relay events in 2023 World Athletics Championships, 2023), and was a 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay gold medalist at the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardeo Isaacs
Gardeo Isaacs (born 27 December 1998) is a South African sprinter. He became South African national champion in 2019 over 400 metres. Early life From Parow, Cape Town he attended Stellenbosch University where he studied Management Accounting. Career He won the South African 400m national title in April 2019 in Germiston in a time of 45.39 seconds. He won the 400m at the South African Varsity Athletics meet in 2019, running a time of 45.70 seconds. Later that year, he went on to win the bronze medal in 45.89 seconds for South Africa at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy. He ran as part of the South African 4x400m relay team at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha having also ran as a part of the team at the 2019 IAAF World Relays in Japan. He ran for South Africa at the 2022 African Championships in Athletics in Mauritius. He came third in the 400 metres at the South African Championships in Potchefstroom in 2023, in a new personal best time of 45.15 seconds. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayapo Ndori
Bayapo Ndori (born 20 June 1999) is a Motswana athlete. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ... and won the bronze medal. References External links * 1999 births Living people Botswana male sprinters 21st-century Botswana sportsmen Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists for Botswana Olympic athletes for Botswana Place of birth missing (living people) African Championships in Athletics winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Botswana Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leungo Scotch
Leungo Scotch (born 28 February 1996) is a Botswana sprinter. He set a new personal best of 45.27s to win the men's 400 metres event at 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc .... References External links * Botswana male sprinters 21st-century Botswana sportsmen 1996 births Living people African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games gold medalists for Botswana Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Botswana African Championships in Athletics winners Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Botswana Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letsile Tebogo
Letsile Tebogo (; born 7 June 2003) is a Botswana sprinter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres event, with his win earning the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Botswana. He also won the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the 100 m and followed it up with a bronze medal in the 200 m five days later. Tebogo won in the 100 metres and placed second in the 200 metres at both the 2021 and 2022 World Athletics Under-20 Championships. In 2021, he became the first Botswana athlete to claim the 100 m title at any World Championships level. He is the 200 m 2022 African champion, becoming the youngest winner of this title in competition history. He broke the 300 m world best, running a time of 30.69 seconds on February 17, 2024 at altitude in Pretoria, South Africa. Tebogo has held the world U20 record in the 100 m since April 2022. He was the first man from Botswana to break the 10-second barrier. Career Tebogo gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busang Kebinatshipi
Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (born 13 February 2004) is a track and field athlete from Botswana. In 2023, he became the African U20 champion in the 400 metres. Career He won gold in the 400 metres at the 2023 African U18 and U20 Championships in Athletics in Ndola, Zambia with a championship record time of 44.91 seconds. Kebinatshipi was part of the Botswana men’s relay team that won gold at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi. In April 2022, he lowereed his personal best for the 400 metres to 45.20 seconds. In August 2022, he won gold medals as part of the Botswana men's relay team and the mixed relay team at the 2022 African Championships. He won the 400m at the 2023 African U18 and U20 Championships in Athletics in Ndola, Zambia, in April 2023, running a championship record time of 44.91 seconds. In June 2023, he ran 45.01 to win an international meeting in Hengelo, Netherlands beating an international field, including the likes of Vernon Norwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymeric Priam
Aymeric Priam is a French sprinter. Career A member of Racing Club Martinique, he was French U20 champion over 100 metres in 2019 in Angers. Priam won the French junior titles in 60m (indoors), 100m and 200m in 2021 and February 2022, he retained his junior 60m title in Lyon. He was selected to be part of the France relay squad for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich. Priam was part of the French 4x100m relay team which won bronze at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024. He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China in the Men's 4 × 100 metres relay in May 2025. On the second day of the competition he helped France secure a qualifying place for the upcoming World Championships. Personal life From Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Matéo
Pablo Matéo (born 1 February 2001) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He won a silver medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. In May 2023, he successively improves his personal best in the 100m to 10.18 seconds on May 13 in Nairobi, then to 10.15 seconds on May 31 in Montreuil. At the European U23 Championships in Espoo Espoo (, ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the west of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. Espoo is part of the Helsi ..., he won the bronze medal in the 100 m in 10.18 seconds, and also won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. References External links * 2001 births Living people French male sprinters Sportspeople from Évry, Essonne European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Erius
Jeff Erius (born 8 March 2004) is a French sprinter. He is French national champion over 60 metres. He competed in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 Olympic Games. Career He participated in 2021 at the age of 17 years-old in the 2021 French Athletics Championships in Angers, placing third in the 200 meters event. He won silver in the 100 metres at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn in 10.27 seconds. On February 18, 2023, in Aubière at the 2023 French Indoor Athletics Championships he won his first senior national title by winning the 60 meters in a time of 6.62 seconds, establishing a new French junior record. He competed at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul and the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia, however a hamstring injury ruled him out for the rest of the season. In February 2024, he retained his 60m French national title in Miramas running a personal best of 6.58 seconds. He was subsequently select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Méba-Mickaël Zeze
Méba-Mickaël Zeze (born 19 May 1994) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille Métropole, France. Earlier that year, Zézé broke the French Youth Record over 200 m, previously held by Christophe Lemaitre Christophe Lemaitre (; born 11 June 1990) is a former French people, French Sprint (running), sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres, 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an o .... Personal best References External links * * FFA profile foMickaël Zézé 1994 births Living people French male sprinters European Athletics Championships medalists Olympic athletes for France Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for France Athletes from Seine-Maritime Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Blake
Jerome Blake (born August 18, 1995) is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the sprint events. As a member of the Canadian relay team, he is the 2024 Olympic gold medallist, 2020 Olympic silver medallist and the 2022 World champion. Career Early career Blake was born in Buff Bay, Jamaica, where he started his young track career as a hurdler in the 400 m. After attending his brother's soccer game, he began testing his speed on track which a coach noticed and convinced him to switch to sprinting. The Blake family moved to Canada in 2013, taking up residence in Kelowna, British Columbia initially, and eventually moving to Burnaby. Because he did not acquire Canadian citizenship until 2018, he was unable to participate in many international junior competitions, though he remarked that had he been born in Canada "I probably would have been playing hockey." Blake competed for British Columbia at the 2017 Canada Summer Games where he won gold in both the 100&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
