Jamaica win men’s 4×200 in world record at World Relays
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May 23, 2014

Jamaica win men’s 4×200 in world record at World Relays

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaicans lit up the Thomas Robinson track Saturday night to take men’s the 4×200 at the inaugural IAAAF World Relays in The Bahamas.

Jamaica with Yohan Blake, Nickel Ashmeade, Warren Weir and Jermaine Brown clocked a world record 1.18.63 to take the event as top challenger USA fumbled a baton change and was disqualified. St Kitts finished second with France third.

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