Here the performances set on Mondo athletics track at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24:
Pundits are describing Bahamas 24 as the best World Athletics Relays ever, and for the fifth time in six editions of the championships, the track on which the world’s top relays teams went through their paces was provided by World Athletics Official Supplier Mondo.
The Thomas A Robinson National Stadium in the Bahamian capital Nassau was recently upgraded to a Mondotrack WS™ athletics track after 10 years of featuring a Sportflex Super X 720™ track, which was installed just prior to the venue hosting the inaugural World Athletics Relays in 2014.
Like its predecessor, the new track proved to be a winner.
Here are some of the superlatives from Bahamas 24, held on 4-5 May, that make very impressive reading…
Arguably the top performance of the two days in the Caribbean was the USA’s gold-medal winning performance in the women’s 4x100m. The American quartet of Tamari Davis, Gabby Thomas, Celera Barnes, and Melissa Jefferson passed the baton around one lap of the track in a championship record time of 41.85.
The previous record of 41.88 had been set in 2014, also by the USA. in 2014.
The American men almost followed their compatriots into the record books 10 minutes later.
The men’s 4x100m championship record of 37.38 was set in 2015 by the USA. It still stands, but only just, as Courtney Lindsey, Kenny Bednarek, Kyree King, and Noah Lyles teamed up to run a world-leading 37.40.
It wasn’t just the USA squad that returned home from Nassau with smiles on their faces.
The top 14 teams in the five relays being contested in Nassau – the women’s and men’s 4x100m and 4x400m plus the mixed 4x400m – all automatically qualified for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Two nations – Great Britain and the USA – each qualified a full complement of five teams for Paris 2024, while another six – France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Poland – will be sending four teams each to the forthcoming Olympic Games in three months where once again they will compete on a Mondo track. With Paris 2024, Mondo will have supplied the track for the Olympic athletics events at the last nine Olympic Games, since Barcelona 1992.
Bahamas 24 also made it four consecutive World Athletics Series in-stadia events that have been contested on Mondo tracks with the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22, World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, and World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 all having had the Mondo mark of excellence.