JAMAICA avoided embarrassment and a two-month wait after three of the four relay teams that failed to book spots in the Olympic Games on Saturday at the World Athletics Relays made amends in Nassau, The Bahamas, on Sunday.

After missing out on booking their spots in the first qualifying round, the women’s 4x100m and 4x400m won their second-round races, and the mixed 4x400m relay team placed second to punch their tickets to Paris, joining the men’s 4x100m team that had booked a place on Saturday.

There is, however, a possibility that the 4x400m team could miss the Olympics for the first time in decades after the team that just failed to qualify on Saturday finished fifth in their second round on Sunday, running 3:05.09 minutes.

With just two spots to be filled by June 30, the two best times by teams that have not qualified in the qualifying period that opened on December 31, 2022 are 2:58.45 and 2:5912 minutes by France and Zambia, respectively.

Jamaica is third with 2:59.34, done last year at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Fourteen of the 16 teams for the Olympic Games were decided in The Bahamas, eight on Saturday, and another six on Sunday, with the other two to be decided.

The men’s 4x100m team of Bryan Levell, Kadrian Goldson, Ryiem Forde and Sandrey Davison were seventh in the final in 38.88 seconds, slower than the 38.50 seconds they ran on Saturday.

Earlier on Sunday, the coaches made subtle changes to the relays which produced better results than Saturday and faster times. Alana Reid, who ran the third leg on the women’s 4x100m team in the first round, switched with Remona Burchell, and with Jodean Williams leading off and handing over to Tia Clayton, ran 42.74 seconds to beat Trinidad and Tobago, 43.54 seconds.

The Jamaican team had run 43.33 seconds on Saturday for third place.

The women’s 4x400m team won comfortably in 3:28.54 minutes after running 3:29.03 on Saturday with the line-up of Roneisha McGregor, Charokee Young, Ashley Williams, and Junelle Bromfield.

Young took over the lead on the second leg and Williams increased the gap, making it easy for Bromfield to get to the finish line ahead of India, 3:29.35, and Brazil, 3:31.60.

A gutsy run on the anchor leg from Janieve Russell carried the mixed 4x400m relay team to second in 3:14.49, after running 3:14.83 on Saturday.

Zandrion Barnes, who replaced Rusheen McDonald, ran the opening leg before handing over to Leah Anderson who then passed to Roshawn Clarke who had run the opening leg on Saturday.

Russell got the baton in third place and moved past South Africa to finish behind The Bahamas who ran a national record 3:12.81, with Olympic Games 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo on anchor.

The men’s 4x400m team was always trying to catch-up after a slow first leg from McDonald and Malik James-King, Demish Gaye and Assinie Wilson. They failed to get into the top two, running 3:05.09, much slower than the 3:02.46 they ran in the first round.

Spain won in 3:02.39, ahead of Poland, 3:02.91.