BUDAPEST, Hungary — Two-time World Championships men’s 100m finalist Oblique Seville is optimistic about the future of men’s sprinting in Jamaica and thinks the return to greatness is not too far off.

Seville finished fourth in the men’s 100m on Sunday’s second day of the championships at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary, the same position from the previous year at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

He has high hopes for the men’s relay team here.

Jamaica last won a medal in the men’s sprint relays eight years ago in Beijing, China, when they won a fourth-straight gold and a fifth-straight year of medalling after taking silver in 2007 in Osaka, Japan.

“I think we can do great things because our team is really good, but it is just for us to get in some relay practices now,” Seville said on Sunday.

Trusted sources told the Jamaica Observer that men’s 100m finalists Seville and Ryiem Forde, as well as national champion Rohan Watson, Ackeem Blake and Kadrian Goldson make up the relay pool.

It is understood that the team of Blake, Seville, Forde and Goldson will run in the first round, while Watson will replace Goldson in the final.

“This is a new era of [Jamaican] men’s sprinting,” Seville said. “We have Forde, Jelani Walker, Blake, Watson, Kishane Thompson and more, so the competition in Jamaica is escalating and I think in a few years’ time we can expect great things from Jamaica — and we [could] repeat what Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake did before,” he said.