HAVANA, Cuba, May 6 (ACN) The three Cuban relay teams participating at the World Athletics Relay Championship, held in the Bahamas, left without tickets to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
The women’s 4×400 meters (m) relay had the highest hopes of reaching the quota, but finished third in heat two and that possibility disappeared.
Melissa Padron, Rose Mary Almanza, Lisneidy Vetia and Roxana Gomez, the last three champions three years ago in Silesia, Poland, reached the finish line with a time of 3:29:36, thus improving their record of the current season.
On Saturday, Cuba’s quartet stopped the clocks in 3:31.56 min, which was their best time so far this year, although it was not enough for t