Zharnel Hughes, Charlie Dobson, Desiree Henry amongst GB relay staff for Botswana

Novuna Nice Britain and Northern Eire staff for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana, on Could 2-3 is known as.

UKA has chosen a full squad for all of the races on the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana, on Could 2-3 with the intention of qualifying all groups for the 2027 World Championships and giving up-and-coming athletes a improvement alternative on the worldwide stage.

The 4x100m squad options skilled relay runners, together with Paris Olympic relay medallists Imani Lansiquot and Desiree Henry. Britain’s quickest man over 100m, Zharnel Hughes will run with skilled relay team-mates Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and the world and European 60m champion Jeremiah Azu.

These skilled sprinters are joined by rising British expertise throughout the boys’s and ladies’s relay groups, lots of whom are a part of the UK Athletics Futures Programme.

The 2025 European under-23 relay champions, Success Eduan, Kissiwaa Mensah, Alyson Bell and Nia Wedderburn-Goodison, will characteristic within the girls’s squad. There’s additionally the newly topped British indoor 200m champion Renee Regis and European U20 silver medallist Mabel Akande, whereas European U20 silver medallist Teddy Wilson can be a part of the boys’s squad.

The 4x400m staff options Paris Olympic relay medallists Charlie Dobson, Alex Haydock-Wilson, Toby Harries and Lewis Davey. They’re joined by up-and-coming 400m hurdler Jake Minshull, who is ready to make his senior worldwide debut at these championships.

Paris Olympic relay medallists Nicole Yeargin, Lina and Laviai Nielsen lead the 4x400m relay staff. Alongside them will characteristic British indoor champion Yemi Mary John.

The staff can be boosted by Charlotte Henrich, the U20 European champion within the 400m, and Emily Newnham, the U23 European champion within the 400m hurdles.

For the blended relay occasions, the 4x100m and 4x400m can be made up of chosen athletes.

Full GB staff: 

Girls’s 4x100m

Mabel Akande; Alyson Bell; Success Eduan; Desiree Henry; Imani Lansiquot; Kissiwaa Mensah; Renee Regis; Aleeya Sibbons; Jasmine Wilkins; Nia Wedderburn-Goodison

Males’s 4x100m

Jeremiah Azu; Jona Efoloko; Romell Glave; Zharnel Hughes; Elliot Jones; Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake; Jeriel Quainoo; Jody Smith; Teddy Wilson; Ethan Wiltshire

Girls’s 4x400m

Charlotte Henrich; Yemi Mary John; Poppy Malik; Emily Newnham; Laviai Nielsen; Lina Nielsen; Louisa Stoney; Nicole Yeargin

Males’s 4x400m

Harry Bradley; Lewis Davey; Seamus Derbyshire; Charlie Dobson; Josh Faulds; Alex Haydock-Wilson; Toby Harries; Jake Minshull; Lee Thompson

*The blended relay groups can be chosen from the athletes above