The Australian women’s 4×100 relay team could break an 18-year Australian record at GC2018 according to their coach Jodi Lambert.

Lambert should know, it’s her record.

The former sprinter is now in charge of the next generation of Australian relay athletes and is excited at the prospect of what they can produce at the Commonwealth Games on home soil.

At a training camp in Brisbane late last year, the team ran 44.04 which was the fastest time by an Australian women’s team in four years.

But there is plenty of improvement left in the team according to their coach.

The long-standing record of 42.99 set by Lambert, Rachael Massey, Suzanne Broadrick and Melinda Gainsford-Taylor in Pietersberg in 2000 before the Sydney Olympics is now well and truly a motivating factor for the current team hopeful of medalling in front of a home crowd.

“The 42.99 is definitely a time that the girls are aiming for, it is a big thing that we have put on the board,” Lambert told GC2018.com.