Nigeria’s 4×100m Men’s relay quartet suffered setback as Jamaica takes World Champs qualification spot

Nigeria’s men’s 4x100m relay team was eliminated from the automatic qualification zone for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

This follows Jamaica’s 37.80s win at the London Diamond League on Saturday.
The Jamaican quartet of Rohan Watson, Oblique Seville, Kadrian Goldson, and Kishane Thompson stormed to victory at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, finishing ahead of Great Britain (38.08s) and the Netherlands (38.17s).

Their winning time bumped Jamaica into 15th place on the global rankings list moving Nigeria, previously 16th, into the danger zone with a time of 38.20s, which they ran at the Paris 2024 Olympics last year.
Only the top 16 teams qualify for the men’s 4x100m relay at the World Championships in Tokyo this September.

The Nigerian relay quartet have to seek qualification elsewhere to attempt to up its time to knock off countries on 16th spot to qualify.
Nigeria have achieved it in the past.