{"id":902794,"date":"2026-05-01T05:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/laurence-improves-tt-records-local-sports-trinidadexpress-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:15:32","slug":"laurence-improves-tt-records-local-sports-trinidadexpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/laurence-improves-tt-records-local-sports-trinidadexpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence improves T&T records | Local Sports | trinidadexpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tessica Laurence bettered her national pole vault records at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, yesterday.<\/p>\n

Laurence cleared 2.65 metres to capture Women\u2019s pole vault gold at the National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAATT)\u2014Association of Masters Athletics (TTAMA) Development Meet.<\/p>\n

At the Carifta trials, Laurence went over the bar at 2.40m to establish Trinidad and Tobago Women\u2019s and Girls\u2019 Under-20 records. The Concorde athlete went on to bag Carifta Games Girls\u2019 Open bronze in Grenada with a 2.30m vault.<\/p>\n

Laurence improved on her T&T records yesterday, re-setting the Women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Toco TAFAC\u2019s Ahriseza Cox was golden in the Men\u2019s 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\u2019s two-time Carifta Games Boys\u2019 Under-20 decathlon champion Tyrique Vincent was third at 2.95.<\/p>\n

T&T track star Michelle-Lee Ahye stamped her class on the Women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In a keenly-contested Men\u2019s 100m, Stallions sprinter Chad Richards stopped the clock at 10.77 seconds to secure gold, just ahead of Concorde\u2019s Revell Webster in 10.79. In another section, Burnley\u2019s 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\u2019s 200m in 21.54.<\/p>\n

Rogil Torres was the class of the Men\u2019s 400m field, the Stallions athlete winning in 48.78 seconds, ahead of Kadesh Roberts (49.48) of Memphis Pioneers.<\/p>\n

Zada Charles and Diamond Paul finished one-two for Point Fortin New Jets in the Women\u2019s 400m, clocking 57.43 seconds and 58.36, respectively. Memphis athlete Jennesia Allamby was third in 59 seconds flat.<\/p>\n

Imani Mills, also of Memphis, got home in 23.85 seconds to grab Women\u2019s 200m gold.<\/p>\n

Maximising Athletic Potential (MAP) athlete Donnell Francis outran his training partners Nicholas Romany and Tafari Waldron for gold in the Men\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Redline International\u2019s Dennora George topped the Women\u2019s 1500m in 8:14.89. TTRRC\u2019s Sussanah Joefield was second in 9:05.57.<\/p>\n

Kristiano Perez captured a jumps double, the QRC AC athlete winning the Men\u2019s long and triple. Perez landed 6.95m in the long and 14.70m in the triple.<\/p>\n

Silver in the long went to UTT\u2019s 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\u2019s Brandon Castanada secured the runner-up spot with a 14.06m jump, with third going to Memphis\u2019 Carifta Games boys\u2019 under-17 triple jump bronze medallist Zayne Martin, who disturbed the sand at a wind-aided 13.91m.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s triple jump gold went to Oasics athlete Keneisha Shelbourne at 12.48m. Shelbourne also won the women\u2019s long jump, leaping to a personal best 5.96m.<\/p>\n

QRC AC teammates Reyann Graham and La Queen Welch finished joint-first in the women\u2019s high jump at 1.60m.<\/p>\n

UTT\u2019s Umar Sandy threw 49.99 metres to top the men\u2019s discus. Hezekiel Romeo won the men\u2019s shot put at 17.74m. His Ascend Athletics teammate, Jania Thomas topped the women\u2019s shot put at 10.47.<\/p>\n

Abilene\u2019s Zariah Pascall clocked 15.05 seconds to win the Women\u2019s 100m hurdles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Kwame Laurence
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Tessica Laurence bettered her national pole vault records at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, yesterday. Laurence cleared 2.65 metres to capture Women\u2019s pole vault gold at the National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAATT)\u2014Association of Masters Athletics (TTAMA) Development Meet. At the Carifta trials, Laurence went over the bar at 2.40m to establish Trinidad and Tobago Women\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37278,127221],"tags":[12562,82993],"class_list":{"0":"post-902794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-improves","8":"category-laurence","9":"tag-improves","10":"tag-laurence"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}