Women sprint relay snares berth in final
By
Donstan Bonn
Story Created:
Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 PM ECT
Story Updated:
Feb 14, 2013 at 12:09 PM ECT
Trinidad and Tobago's women's 4 x 100m relay squad of Michelle-Lee Ahye, Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Kai Selvon and Semoy Hackett produced a new national record of 42.31 seconds to advance to Friday's final.
The T&T quarter finished second to the United States (41.64) in the first of two qualifying heats to advancing automatically to the final.
T&T will be running out of lane 4 in tomorrow's championship race.
Following are the finalists (in order of times):
United States 41.64
Trinidad & Tobago 42.31
Ukraine 42.36
Jamaica 42.37
Netherlands 42.45
Brazil 42.55
Germany 42.69
Nigeria 42.74