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Allen completes remarkable Schools’ C/ships
Carto, Felix also impressive
By Edison Jefford
By any stretch of the imagination, Neisa Allen’s accomplishment at the just concluded National Schools’ Championships is nothing short of remarkable. The North Georgetown athlete fell one medal short of taking gold in three sprint events.
Tiffany Carto
Neisa Allen
Eventual Under-20 Female Champion Athlete, New Amsterdam’s, Roxanna Rigby edged Allen on the line in the Under-20 Girls’ 100m race, but the emerging Allen returned to take both 200m and 400m races to end an incredible feat at Albion.
Competing in three premier sprint events is not an easy task at the Schools’ Championship given that preliminary rounds accompany each race. Allen, therefore, ran two rounds for each race over the four day period and managed to come out on top.
She sprinted away with the 200m in a time of 25.9 seconds ahead of Upper Demerara, Keyandra Zephyr and Corentyne’s Shawna Park, who recorded times of 27.0 and 27.2 seconds respectively after Rigby was literally left in her starting blocks.
Allen then came later in the day to defeat Zephyr and New Amsterdam’s Tiffany Smith in a time of 1:02.5 in the 400m. Zephyr ran 1:03.0 for second while Smith recorded a time of 1:03.3 in the relatively slow race at the Community Centre Ground.
Allen, who competes for Running Brave Athletics Club has shown steady progress this year with victories over all her Under-20 rivals. Allen has defeated Nadine Rodrigues, Mercedes Forde and Shanna Thornhill at various competitions this year.
Rupununi’s Daniel Felix opens his arms in celebration as he crosses the finish line to win the Under-16 Boys’ 3000m in what should have been a schools’ record.
New Amsterdam’s Okeme Stewart won the Under-20 Boys’ 200m in 22.8 seconds while Upper Demerara’s Champion Male Under-20 Athlete, Winston Ceasar finished second in 22.9 seconds and 100m champ, Chavez Ageday third in 23.0 seconds.
North Georgetown’s Phillip Drayton had his work cut out in the Under-20 Boys 400m after New Amsterdam’s Franken Mercurius went out with a blistering start. Mercurius held the race for the first 300m but it was Drayton’s finishing speed that won.
Drayton ran 50.5 while Mercurius ended in 51.1 with Pomeroon’s, Rudolph Toney third in 52.8 seconds. The race was one of the events that brought a capacity crowd to its feet after the battle shaped up as a gruelling contest for the premier medal.
Tiffany Carto was also outstanding at the Schools’ Championships. After upsetting Iana Graham, who was favoured to win the 100m, Carto repeated in the 200m to end with a sprint double in the Girls’ Under-16 category of the competition.
Carto won the 200m in 26.8 seconds while Upper Demerara’s Laniece Dennis finished second in 27.0 with Corentyne’s Tricia Downer third in 28.4 seconds. Carto had surged from behind on the day before to snatch the 100m from Graham.
West Demerara’s Carl Tudor outdid Cortez Fraser in the Under-16 Boys’ 200m after Fraser won the 100m the day before in a record-equalling 11.1 seconds. Tudor won the 200m in 23.6 second while Fraser did 23.8. Devon Abrams was third in 24.6 seconds.
With the sprint events aside Rupununi’s Daniel Felix entertained the community in the Under-16 Boys’ 3000m when he set a blistering and consistent pace in a record breaking performance that would not be recorded because of a technical error.
Apparently, Felix did 11 laps on the 300m marked track when he was expected to do ten. He told Kaieteur Sport after the race that the official signalling the laps showed him that he had five remaining twice. He therefore did an extra lap in the race.
Felix set a fiery pace in the race that definitely looked on course for the Hezron Pedro’s 9:12.20 record that was done in 2006 in Georgetown. Felix’s coach, Brian Rodrigues had him timed at a fast 8:56.00, which was under the record after ten laps.
Felix was given a time of 9:54.2, which is what the women usually run as East Coast Demerara’s Malcolm Walcott finished second in 9:55.5. Corentyne’s Akeem Chapman was third in 9:56.3 as evening set in. Felix’s performance received a standing ovation.
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