By TAYO SALAAM

Nigeria’s 4×100 meters women’s relay team has set a new African record at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, the United States of America.

Running in lane 8, the quartet of Joy Udo-Gabriel, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha clocked 42.22 seconds as they finished 4th in the final to break the 30-year-old African record.

Despite their record-breaking effort, they missed out on the podium as they were beaten to bronze by Germany with the Germans parading Tatjana Pinto, Alexandra Burghardt, Gina Iückenkemper and Rebekka Haase clocking a season’s best of 42.03 seconds. (Channels TV)

•PHOTO: Nigeria’s Joy Chinenye Udo-Gabriel (C) celebrates with teammate Nigeria’s Rosemary Chukwuma (R) after they came in third in a heat of the women’s 4x100m relay heats during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 22, 2022. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)