Australia secured a thrilling bronze and ran the sixth-fastest men’s 4x400m time in history at the World Athletics Relays in Botswana, on a day the country proved its pedigree in the team-based format. The team of Luke van Ratingen, Reece Holder, Thomas Reynolds and Aidan Murphy pushed home heroes Botswana and South Africa right to the line in a marvellous contest that was not settled until the final metres. Their time of 2:55.20 broke the Australian record they set in the preliminary round the previous day, and would have won gold at every Olympics apart from Paris 2024, when the
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