Women’s U20 4x100m world record set by Jamaica ratified
Tamoy Ashman / Our Today
The world record for the women’s U20 4x100m set by Jamaicans Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Kerrica Hill and Tia Clayton at the World U20 Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Cali, Colombia has been ratified.
In August of 2022, the quartet stormed to the finish line, clocking a time of 42.59 seconds to replace the previous world record they had set of 42.94 in August 2021 at the World U20 Championships in Nairobi.
In a release yesterday (January 15) the World Athletics announced that the 42.59 record was ratified, meaning it is the official world.
A faster time of 42.58 was set by Jamaicans Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Tia Clayton and Brianna Lyston when they teamed up to win gold at the Carifta Games, but it was not ratified as a record because the ladies were not drug tested on the day of the race.
The quartet are among two other athletes whose world records were ratified. These include Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge and Botswana sprinter Letsile Tebogo.
Kipchoge ran a time of 2:01:09 in the Berlin marathon to take the title of world record holder for the Men’s world marathon. The Kenyan took 30 seconds off the previous world record established in 2018 at the same event.
Botswana sprinter Tebogo had his world record for the Men’s world U20 100m ratified. He dashed across the field to deliver a time of 9.91 seconds at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, taking 0.03 seconds off the record he had previously set.
The news of the Jamaican team’s record being ratified comes less than a month after it was announced that Jamaican athlete Ackera Nugent was among four athletes who recently had their world records ratified by the World Athletics.
Nugent ran an impressive 7.92 seconds at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, achieving her world U20 indoor 60m hurdles record.
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