Seville: Strong 4x100m has potential for something special
Published:Saturday | August 26, 2023 | 12:08 AM
BUDAPEST, Hungary:
The improvement of the men’s sprinting core this season has Oblique Seville optimistic not only about the future but about the present, which is getting Jamaica’s first men’s 4x100 metres medal in eight years at the World Championships
They took one step closer to that goal yesterday finishing second in 37.68 seconds in their heat yesterday to qualify for today’s final scheduled for 2:40 p.m. Jamaica time. The United States won the heat in 37.67.
The quartet of Ackeem Blake, Seville, Ryiem Forde and national champion Rohan Watson were tasked to get Jamaica a 4x100m medal after three consecutive championships without one.
Seville points to the progress that has been made since the Tokyo Olympics and the growth of the 100m core that he is proudly a part of.
“What has improved is the sprinting in Jamaica. You can see right now all of us are running nine seconds. At the last Olympics and at Oregon there were a few of us that went nine seconds. Jamaican sprinting is elevating so much that eight of us have gone under 10 seconds,” Seville said.
Seville is the fastest Jamaican this year with 9.86 with Blake’s best being 9.89. Forde’s 9.95 along with Watson’s 9.91 in his mind sets the stage for what Seville hopes will be something special for the country.
“The progress since the Olympics has been good. At the last Olympics, we ran 37.84 and in Oregon last year, I think we ran the same time. For us to run 37.68 it shows something tremendous is happening for us and that we can do something spectacular in the final,” Seville said.
Watson closed down the Americans in a brilliant anchor leg which saw Jamaica just being edged narrowly at the line. Jamaica will run out of lane six in the final while the United States will go in lane eight.