Nigeria, March 8 -- Team Nigeria's women's 4x400m relay team on Saturday secured qualification for the upcoming World Relays Championships as the MTN CHAMPS Athletics Classics wrapped up in Calabar with a strong Day 3 performance.

The quartet of veteran runner and three-time Olympian Patience Okon-George alongside rising talents Anita Enaruna, Treasure Okereke, and Jecinter Lawrence clocked 3:31.14 to claim victory in the event and move up to 21st in the world rankings. The performance displaced Mexico and sealed Nigeria's place at the World Relays scheduled for May in Botswana.

The qualification is particularly significant as the World Relays will be staged on African soil for the first time.

Team Ethiopia finished a distant second in...