World U20 Championships: Guyana falls short of final spot in Men’s 4×4 semifinal race
A ten-member Guyanese team competed at this year’s World U20 Championships
Misfortune has dogged Team Guyana into the fourth day of the World Under-20 Athletics Championships in Lima, Peru, with the Guyanese Male 4x400M team narrowly missing out on securing a final spot in a semifinal race.
The quartet of Malachi Austin, De Neilson Gill, Kaidon Persaud and Enoch Munroe clocked 3 minutes, 11.38s for a national under-20 record (according to World Athletics), but placed fifth in Heat 2 of the event.
The Heat was won by the American quartet in 3:05.16, the fastest qualifying time of the entire event. South Africa picked up the second automatic qualifying spot in the Heat with 3:08.84. The other two teams separating Guyana and the top two finishers, Ireland and Germany, both eventually secured qualifying spots, with Guyana narrowly missing out on a chance to move on to the next (Final) round.
Guyana took a ten-member team to the premier youth Championships in Peru.
