Jereem Richards and Michelle-Lee Ahye will lead the T&T contingent to the 2024 World Relays on the Thomas A Robin Stadium in Nassau, The Bahamas on Could 4-5.
Richards was chosen in a six-member workforce to compete within the males’s 4×400 metres relay whereas Ahye is amongst 5 chosen for the ladies’s 4x100m occasion.
Richards can be joined by Asa Guevera, Che Lara, Shakeem McKay and Joshua St. Clair and Timothy Frederick.
Richards helped T&T to win the 2017 World Outside Championships 4x400m crown. He and Guevera led T&T to gold on the 2019 World Relays in Yokohama, Japan together with Machel Cedenio and the late Deon Lendore. Richards, Guevara and Lara have been additionally a part of this nation’s victorious Commonwealth Video games males’s 4x400m workforce in 2022.
Ahye will workforce up with veteran Reyare Thomas, Leah Bertrand, Reese Webster and Taejah Badal for the ladies’s 4x100m.
Ahye, the 2018 Commonwealth Video games ladies’s 100m winner, and Thomas helped T&T to bronze on the inaugural World Relays in 2014. Additionally they claimed 4x100m bronze for T&T on the 2015 World Outside Championships.
Frederick can be amongst these picked for the lads’s 4x100m race with Jerod Elcock and Eric Harrison, and Omari Lewis, the quickest native male sprinter for the 2024 season up to now, finishing the line-up.
The World Relays would be the essential qualifying meet for this yr’s Olympic Video games in Paris, France from July 26 to Aug. 11. The highest 14 international locations within the 4x100m, 4x400m and combined 4x400m in The Bahamas can be assured for a spot in Paris. Two extra groups can be chosen thereafter based mostly on world rankings.
