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What Is a Good 4x100 Relay Time? 2026 Benchmarks by Level

What Is a Good 4x100 Relay Time? 2026 Benchmarks by Level A good 4x100 relay time depends on your level: elite high school boys run 40-41 seconds, competitive boys run 42-44 seconds, and average teams run 45-48 seconds; girls run roughly 6-7 seconds slower at each tier. The world record is 36.84 seconds. Plug in your four sprinters' 100m bests with our Relay Split Calculator(/sports/relay-split-calculator) to predict your team's time before the gun even fires. The relay question that comes up most around UseCalcPro's sports tools is some version of "are we any good?" The honest answer is that a raw number means nothing without a tier to compare it against. A boys' team running 44.0 seconds is conference-competitive in one state and would not make the final in another. Below I lay out the benchmarks by level, then show you the math that turns four individual 100m times into...