Canada's women run to national indoor mark in 400m relay at world championships

Sage Watson won't be flashing a medal upon her return to Canada but has added her name to the Canadian record book for indoor track.

Watson anchored the women's 4x400-metre relay team to a national record time of three minutes 31.45 seconds in Sunday's heats at the world championships, nearly five seconds faster than the 3:36.03 performance by Karlene Haughton, Foy Williams, Candace Jones and Naabiama Salifu on March 5, 2000.

Sunday's effort, however, wasn't enough for Ottawa's Lauren Gale, Toronto's Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald of Brampton, Ont., and Watson of Medicine Hat, Alta., to advance to the six-team final in Belgrade, Serbia as they finished eighth of 10 teams.

Jamaica ran a season-best 3:30.91 to grab the last qualifying spot while the United States was first in 3:28.83, also a season best.

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