High expectations for Team GBpublished at 09:02 BST
Image source, Getty ImagesOlympic 4x100m bronze medalists Zharnel Hughes and Jeremiah Azu will race in Botswana.
Team GB won
medals in all five relay events at the Paris Olympics in 2024 and many of the
athletes who helped drive that success will be in action again in Gaborone.
The squad
includes three of the four sprinters who won bronze medals in the Men’s 4x100m
relay in Paris – reigning world indoor 60m champion Jeremiah Azu, British
record holder Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
The Women’s
4x100m squad is led by Imani-Lara Lansiquot, the only returning member of the team
that won silver at the last Olympics. Success Eduan and Nia Wedderburn-Goodison
will also race a year on from claiming gold medals on their senior debuts at
last year’s World Relays event in China.
The Men’s
4x400m squad includes four more athletes who won relay bronze medals in Paris
with Charlie Dobson, Lewis Davey, Alex Haydock-Wilson and Toby Harries all
named.
There are
also four Olympic bronze medalists in the Women’s 4x400m team as Laviai Nielsen, Lina Neilsen, Nicole Yeargin and Yemi Mary John have all traveled to Gaborone.
