Nigeria’s women’s 4 x 100 metres relay team was unsuccessful on Thursday as they could only turn in a time of 43.25 seconds in their heat at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The result placed the team in the sixth position in the eight-team Heat 2 of the competition’s first round.
The result was a bad one for Team Nigeria, which had Tobiloba Amusan, Grace Nwokocha, Patience George and Ese Brume and which ran from lane 4 of the heat.
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They hold an African record of 42.39 (Barcelona Games in 1992) and season-best of 42.97 (Lagos on June 19), which had looked good enough for them ahead of the competition.
Germany won the heat with a season-best 42.00, while Switzerland was second with a national record of 42.05 and China was third with 42.82.
All three teams qualified ahead of Poland and Brazil who had their season-best records of 43.09 and 43.15 for fourth and fifth places respectively.