The 2028 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles will mark the debut of a brand new monitor and subject occasion: the blended 4x100m relay. The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced on Wednesday that the relay will be a part of a dozen new occasions added to the Olympic program for 2028.
The blended 4x100m relay has but to be contested on the worldwide stage, however its inaugural run will happen subsequent month on the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China, on Might 10 and 11. The order at World Relays will observe the format of girl (first), girl, man, man (anchor).
The blended 4x100m relay will make its Olympic debut on the LA 2028 Video games ⚡️
The occasion will likely be launched to the World Athletics Relays this 12 months in Guangzhou and also will happen on the inaugural 2026 Final Championships in Budapest 🌏 pic.twitter.com/TeEH8inCqF
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Impressed by the blended 4x400m relay, which first appeared on the 2017 World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, the blended 4x100m occasion is predicted to convey extra power to the monitor. The blended 4x400m gained widespread reputation and was first included within the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. It made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 and has since been a staple within the World Athletics program.
In a 2024 interview with Canadian Operating, four-time Canadian Olympic sprinter and males’s 4x100m relay gold medallist Aaron Brown referred to as the 4x100m blended relay “a chaotic and entertaining addition to trace and subject.”
The newest addition to the Olympic monitor and subject program was the marathon race stroll blended relay on the 2024 Paris Olympics, which changed the boys’s 50 km race stroll. The blended 4x100m relay won’t be run on the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, however followers will see the occasion contested the next 12 months for the inaugural 2026 World Athletics Final Championships in Budapest.
World information for the blended 4x100m relay will formally be acknowledged as of January 1, 2026.
Along with the blended relay, the L.A. Video games could have a number of different disciplines making their debuts, together with the 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m butterfly in swimming, a mixed-gender golf occasion, and a mixed-gender crew competitors in inventive gymnastics.
The 2028 Video games will even set a historic milestone for gender equality, with feminine athlete quota spots (5,655) surpassing male athlete quota spots (5,543) for the primary time throughout the 31 Olympic sports activities. For extra details about the additions and adjustments to the 2028 Olympic program, you’ll be able to view the small print, right here.