What To Watch At The 2024 World Relays In Nassau, Bahamas – CITIUS Mag – Citius Mag

The Netherlands is bringing three runners from their World champion teams in Budapest and Glasgow to The Bahamas, with Bol, Lieke Klaver and Cathelijn Peeters. The fourth leg is a bit of a question mark for the Dutch team heading into this weekend, as neither Evaline Saalberg (Budapest) nor Lisanne de Witte (Glasgow) will be making the trip, and theres a steep drop off in times behind those two. But that may not matter in the long run, because a bigger deficit going into the anchor leg just means there's more magic for Femke Bol to make. The Dutch superstar has only raced once outdoors so far this season in a glorified showcase last weekend in the nearby island nation of Curaao, so this will basically be her true season debut as she gears up to try and win her first Olympic title later this summer.

The Jamaican team will only have one runner from their silver medal winning squad from Budapest in Nassau, but they should still be strong contenders to get on the podium. Janieve Russell, Charokee Young, Roneisha McGregor and Junelle Bromfield have all run comfortably under 51 seconds in their careers. Great Britain, bronze medallists in Glasgow, Budapest, Eugene in 2022, and the 2021 World Relays, will have their most consistent trio of Laviai Nielsen, Ama Pipi and Nicole Yeargin running this weekend.

Poland, the reigning World Relays silver medallist, and Ireland are two teams that have the potential to get into medal conversation, but both of their hopes hinge on a remarkable showing from their strongest runners. For Poland thats the silver medallist in the 400m from Budapest, Natalia Kaczmarek, and for Ireland thats national record holder Rhasidat Adeleke. Adeleke has been working on her speed, with a big win in the 100m last weekend over training partners Dina Asher-Smith and Julien Alfred, but shes yet to run an open 400m this season.

Mixed 4x400m: Return of Bahamass Biggest Stars

The favorite for the first final of the meet has to be the host nation. The Bahamian squad has maybe the best 1-2 punch out of any nation in any event this weekend, with the 6th-fastest man all-time over 400m Steven Gardiner and the 6th-fastest woman all-time over 400m Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Both have had strong starts to their Olympic title defense campaigns after missing some time over the last few seasons and look poised to take gold on their home turf, just like they did in 2017.

Always a strong contender in this event, the team from the Dominican Republic is led by reigning 400m World champion Marileidy Paulino. After not getting the chance to defend their World title from Eugene last August, the Dominicans will be hungry to upset their Caribbean rivals. The strongest male leg on the team will most likely be 200m national record holder Alexander Ogando.

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