Uwezo Lubenda<\/a>, Maya Taber, Kelechi Ekwomadu and Thewbelle Philp won in 41.64 seconds.<\/p>\nThe star quartet huddled around the clock, which had their record on display, and smiled for the cameras. <\/p>\n
Then, in heat two, a team from Great Britain made up of Divine Iheme, Savannah McKenzie Morgan, Mathew Ajayi and Sophie Thomas eclipsed Australia\u2019s newly minted record by 0.04 of a second.<\/p>\n
In heat one, Australia\u2019s Philp and Carlotta Suppini of France could hardly be split as they launched into their anchor legs.<\/p>\n
But Philp, a promising 18-year-old sprinter of Aboriginal and Filipino heritage, raced ahead on the home straight to claim the heat win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really good to set the standard before the other heats to show them what they\u2019re up against,\u201d Philp said, speaking after Great Britain had stolen the record.<\/p>\n
Ekwomadu said the Australian team had sent a formidable message.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great to have had the record for as long as it lasted, just to kind of show the other teams that we\u2019re not here to mess around,\u201d Ekwomadu said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here to win, we\u2019ve done the work, and we\u2019re going to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lubenda, the lead runner, said the team was \u201chungry for more\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we\u2019re in medal contention, so we\u2019re very excited to come back for the final,\u201d said the Townsville tearaway.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite Great Britain getting the world record, it doesn\u2019t matter \u2013 the only thing that matters is the gold medal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mixed 4x100m final is scheduled for Sunday at 11.05am (AEST).<\/p>\n
Australia will be up against Great Britain, the USA, Poland, Germany, Jamaica, Italy, Nigeria and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Australian relay young guns joined forces in the USA on Friday (AEST) to break the world under-20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-846192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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