T&T bagged a fur­ther two medals, one which in­clud­ed a na­tion­al record-break­ing per­for­mance, to close its ac­count at the in­au­gur­al IAAF World Re­lays, at the Thomas Robin­son Sta­di­um, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas, on Sun­day, with a sixth-spot fin­ish in the stand­ings amongst all par­tic­i­pat­ing na­tions.

As a re­sult, all three teams (women's 4x100m, men's 4x100m and men's 4x400m) se­cured spots at next year's IAAF World Cham­pi­onships in Ath­let­ics, which will take place in Bei­jing, Chi­na.

The men's 4x100m re­lay team, an­chored by Richard Thomp­son, cap­tured a sil­ver medal af­ter clock­ing 38.04, be­hind Ja­maica (37.77). Ke­ston Bled­man opened the race, be­fore pass­ing the ba­ton to Marc Burns, who in turn hand­ed it to Ron­del Sor­ril­lo.

Ja­maica, which fin­ished sec­ond in the over­all tal­ly, led the 4x100 race with Yohan Blake, both of whom were part of Ja­maica's world record-break­ing team at the Lon­don Olympics, in­clud­ed. Nick­el Ash­meade and Ju­lian Forte, al­so con­tributed to the team's gold. Great Britain (38.19) fin­ished third.

Lat­er in the evening, T&T again came up mas­sive in the 4x400m re­lay, smash­ing the na­tion­al record by near­ly a sec­ond, to claim bronze.

Jar­rin Solomon, an­chored the team in a 2:58.43 fin­ish, be­hind the USA (2:57.25) and a full-strength Ba­hamas (2:57.59). T&T's pre­vi­ous record, cap­tured at the Lon­don Olympics, was 2:59.40.

Solomon and Lalonde Gor­don were part of both record break­ing teams. The oth­er run­ners help­ing T&T claim bronze on Sun­day were Ren­ny Quow and Machel Ce­de­nio.

A day pri­or, T&T opened the medal haul with a third-placed fin­ish in the women's 4x100m re­lay. Kai Selvon an­chored with Ka­maria Du­rant, Michelle-Lee Ahye and Re­yare Thomas com­plet­ing the team. T&T clocked 42.66, be­hind the USA (41.88) and Ja­maica (42.28).

Un­for­tu­nate­ly, the en­tire trip was not as suc­cess­ful for some T&T ath­letes as it was for oth­ers. Due to an in­jury to Shaw­na Fer­min dur­ing the 4x800m re­lay, T&T failed to fin­ish. Jes­si­ca James led the race, and hand­ed the ba­ton to Fer­min. Ale­na Brooks and an­chor Romona Mod­este did not run.

Fer­min, how­ev­er, was a part of the 4x400m re­lay team, which fin­ished fourth in the 'B' fi­nal. Fer­min, Brooks, Mod­este and Mag­no­lia How­ell clocked 3:33.21.

The Unit­ed States topped the over­all stand­ings with 60 points, while Ja­maica and Kenya fin­ished sec­ond and third, with 41 and 35 points, re­spec­tive­ly. Great Britain (24 points) took fourth; Aus­tralia (21) fifth; T&T (19) sixth; France (18) sev­enth; Ba­hamas (15) eighth; Poland (14) ninth and Nige­ria (13) tenth.

The event served as qual­i­fiers for the 2015 World Cham­pi­onship in Ath­let­ics. On­ly Ja­maica and Great Britain qual­i­fied for all four re­lays (men's 4x100m, 4x400m, women's 4x100m, 4x400m).

Rough­ly 575 ath­letes from 43 na­tions ran. T&T trav­elled with the ninth high­est con­tin­gent of ath­letes- 23. Ba­hamas will host the sec­ond edi­tion of the an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion once again, next year.

Se­lect re­sults

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Men's 4x100m

1 Ja­maica (Nes­ta Carter, Nick­el Ash­meade, Ju­lian Forte, Yohan Blake), 37.77

2 T&T (Ke­ston Bled­man, Marc Burns, Ron­del Sor­ril­lo, Richard Thomp­son), 38.04

3 Great Britain (Richard Kel­ly, Har­ry Aikines-Ary­ee­tay, James Elling­ton, Dwain Cham­bers), 38.19

Men's 4x400m

1 USA (David Ver­burg, Tony Mc­Quay, Chris­t­ian Tay­lor, LaShawn Mer­ritt), 2:57.25

2 Ba­hamas (La­Toy Williams, Demetrius Pin­der, Chris Brown, Michael Math­ieu), 2:57.59

3 T&T (Lalonde Gor­don, Ren­ny Quow, Machel Ce­de­nio, Jar­rin Solomon), 2:58.43 - na­tion­al record

Women's 4x100m

1 USA (Tian­na Bar­to­let­ta, Alexan­dria An­der­son, Jene­ba Tar­moh, LaKeisha Law­son), 41.88

2 Ja­maica (Car­rie Rus­sell, Ker­ron Stew­art, Schillonie Calvert, Saman­tha Hen­ry-Robin­son), 42.28

3 T&T (Ka­maria Du­rant, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Re­yare Thomas, Kai Selvon), 42.66