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#BudaQuest | Jamaica launch mixed-relay appeal

Published:Saturday | August 19, 2023 | 6:38 AM
Jamaica's Natoya Goule (left) collects the baton from Demish Gaye during the 4x400 metre mixed relay at the World Athletics Championships inside the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary earlier today.
Gladstone Taylor
Jamaica's Natoya Goule (left) collects the baton from Demish Gaye during the 4x400 metre mixed relay at the World Athletics Championships inside the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary earlier today.

Jamaica have appealed for a place in the final of the 4x400-metre mixed relay at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The quartet of Demish Gaye, Malik James-King, Stacey-Ann Williams and Natoya Goule-Toppin finished fifth in their heat, clocking in three minutes, 14.05 seconds and failing to progress.

However, the Jamaicans, in an official appeal, are claiming that Goule-Toppin, who ran the second leg, was impeded during the race and the team did not, therefore, have a fair shot at progressing.

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