Tessica Laurence bettered her national pole vault records at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, yesterday.
Laurence cleared 2.65 metres to capture Women’s pole vault gold at the National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAATT)—Association of Masters Athletics (TTAMA) Development Meet.
At the Carifta trials, Laurence went over the bar at 2.40m to establish Trinidad and Tobago Women’s and Girls’ Under-20 records. The Concorde athlete went on to bag Carifta Games Girls’ Open bronze in Grenada with a 2.30m vault.
Laurence improved on her T&T records yesterday, re-setting the Women’s and Under-20 standards to 2.65m. The 19-year-old vaulter enjoyed first-time clearances at 2.15m, 2.35, 2.45 and 2.55 and a second-time clearance at 2.25. At 2.65m, Laurence went over on her second attempt.
Toco TAFAC’s Ahriseza Cox was golden in the Men’s pole vault, topping the field with a personal best 3.45m clearance. Joshua Andrews finished second, the QRC Athletic Club athlete going over the bar at 3.15m. Concorde’s two-time Carifta Games Boys’ Under-20 decathlon champion Tyrique Vincent was third at 2.95.
T&T track star Michelle-Lee Ahye stamped her class on the Women’s 100 metres dash, the Memphis Pioneers sprinter winning in 11.66 seconds. Junior athletes Noemi Theodore, of Phoenix Athletics, and Mikayla Granderson, of Alpha Athletic Club, finished second and third, respectively, clocking 11.91 and 12.15.
In a keenly-contested Men’s 100m, Stallions sprinter Chad Richards stopped the clock at 10.77 seconds to secure gold, just ahead of Concorde’s Revell Webster in 10.79. In another section, Burnley’s Samuel Stewart won in 10.79, but had to settle for third spot overall, Webster getting silver by just one-thousandth of a second. Stewart won the Men’s 200m in 21.54.
Rogil Torres was the class of the Men’s 400m field, the Stallions athlete winning in 48.78 seconds, ahead of Kadesh Roberts (49.48) of Memphis Pioneers.
Zada Charles and Diamond Paul finished one-two for Point Fortin New Jets in the Women’s 400m, clocking 57.43 seconds and 58.36, respectively. Memphis athlete Jennesia Allamby was third in 59 seconds flat.
Imani Mills, also of Memphis, got home in 23.85 seconds to grab Women’s 200m gold.
Maximising Athletic Potential (MAP) athlete Donnell Francis outran his training partners Nicholas Romany and Tafari Waldron for gold in the Men’s 1500m. Francis returned a time of three minutes, 53.20 seconds to force Romany into second spot, the Road Runners Club (TTRRC) athlete getting home in 3:53.74. Waldron was third in 4:03.84.
Redline International’s Dennora George topped the Women’s 1500m in 8:14.89. TTRRC’s Sussanah Joefield was second in 9:05.57.
Kristiano Perez captured a jumps double, the QRC AC athlete winning the Men’s long and triple. Perez landed 6.95m in the long and 14.70m in the triple.
Silver in the long went to UTT’s Jean-Jon Matthew at 6.90m, while bronze was claimed by Omari Brown of Neon Wolves at 6.68. In the triple, Pace and Performance’s Brandon Castanada secured the runner-up spot with a 14.06m jump, with third going to Memphis’ Carifta Games boys’ under-17 triple jump bronze medallist Zayne Martin, who disturbed the sand at a wind-aided 13.91m.
Women’s triple jump gold went to Oasics athlete Keneisha Shelbourne at 12.48m. Shelbourne also won the women’s long jump, leaping to a personal best 5.96m.
QRC AC teammates Reyann Graham and La Queen Welch finished joint-first in the women’s high jump at 1.60m.
UTT’s Umar Sandy threw 49.99 metres to top the men’s discus. Hezekiel Romeo won the men’s shot put at 17.74m. His Ascend Athletics teammate, Jania Thomas topped the women’s shot put at 10.47.
Abilene’s Zariah Pascall clocked 15.05 seconds to win the Women’s 100m hurdles.
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