CARIFTA athletes impress at 3rd developmental meet

Apr 03, 2012 Sports

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By Juanita Hooper
Guyana’s CARIFTA athletes impressed on the track Sunday when they proved their worth for a third

time after the AAG CARIFTA trials at the Upper Demerara School Track Club Developmental Meet on the 300m perimeter ground at the McKenzie Sports Club, Linden.
Running Brave Athletic Track Club athlete, Stephan James clocked 47 seconds in the Men 400m to leave Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Patrick King and Police Progressive Youth Club’s (PPYC) Shawn Semple in second and third in 48.3 second and 48.6 seconds respectively.
James, a South American Junior bronze medalist, who clocked 49.5 seconds at the CARIFTA trials, easily clocked 47 seconds after taking charge of the race from the final 150m mark on the track.
The Women 400m saw CARIFTA team athlete Shamaine Daniels clocking 59.8 seconds to settle for third place, Natricia Hooper 58.2 seconds (first) and Tiffany Smith (second) 59 seconds earned the two top positions.
Letitia Myles was equally impressive in the 200m after outclassing the field to clock 24.3 seconds ahead of PPYC Shannon Thornhill (25 seconds) and Nadine Rodrigues (25.3 seconds).
Alita Moore took the Women’s 100m in 12.2 seconds after Myles was left in the blocks, Shaquane Daniels’ 12.7 seconds was second and Snaska Rogers’ 12.9 seconds was third.
The short little merging bullet, Tevin Garraway, bolted to a personal best time of 21.3 seconds in the 200m Men’s event despite crossing the line second to GDF Akeem Stuart (21.1 seconds) who also ran a personal best time.
Chavez Ageday comfortably bolted away with the Men’s 100m in 10.4 seconds leaving James and Linden’s Winston Caesar to battle for the other two top positions. James, the quarter-mile athlete clocked 10.7 seconds while Caesar finished third in 10.8 seconds.
Samuel Caiton and Andrea Foster, were steaming cookers in the distance events when they displayed their athletic talent. Caiton defeated Nathaniel ‘Brother’ Giddings for the second consecutive time for the year in the 5000m in a superb 16:18.0 seconds. No other athlete clocked under the 17 minutes barrier, Giddings was second in 17:18.8 seconds, while Winston Missigher was third in 17:22.9 seconds.
Foster took a double win in the 800m and 1500m against her rivals. The 800m was a battlefield when Foster and Adama Roberts clashed but the strong young Foster (2:20.4 seconds) claimed the race when she took charge, sprinting to the finish line to leave Roberts behind in 2:21.9 seconds. Janella Jonas was third in 2:27.0 seconds.

Roberts 5:13.8 seconds was no match for Foster’s 4:54.5 minutes in the 1500m. Foster long strides allowed her to easily separate the girls as she sprinted home on the back stretch, Cassie George who was second in 4:56.7 seconds, was the only female along the Foster to run under the 5 minutes barrier.
PPYC athlete Kevin Bayley repeated his outstanding performance on the track in the middle distance events when he made his second appearance in competition to outclass his opponents. Bayley displayed his ability in both the Men’s 800m and 1500m as he showed he was a force to be reckoned with after alienating the field in times of 1:55.8 seconds and 4:11.9 seconds respectively.  Devon ‘Scooby’ Barrington 1:58.5 seconds and Carlton Halley 2:02.2 seconds were second and third in the 800m, while Tyshon Bentick (4:15.2 seconds) and Winston Missigher (4:17.9 seconds) were second and third respectively in the 1500m.
CARIFTA athlete Timothy Fullington threw 11m32cm in Men’s Shot Put to settle for third as PPYC’s Julio Sinclair and Cordell English took first and second place with throws of 14m94cm and 11m76cm. Natasha Alder took the Women’s version in 11m56cm.
Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) gold medalist Troy Lewis won the Men’s Javelin with a best throw of 56m15cm, while Alder won the Women’s in 30m32cm. English came second with 49m40cm ahead of Delon Young’s 44m63cm throw. GDF Phillycia Burke (29m80cm) and PPYC Stacey Wilson (26m93cm) were second and third in the Women Javelin.
University of Guyana student, Lawanda Whaul, who won gold at the 2012 Barbados Rely Fair with a 29m96cm throw, sailed the Discus to 30m05cm in the Women category ahead of Burke 29m19cm.
Sinclair took the Men’s Discus easily with a best throw of 50m44cm ahead of Lewis’ 41m64cm throw.
PPYC girls repeated their clean sweeps in the Women’s Long and Triple Jump when Juanita Hooper, Alita Moore, Marica Isaacs, Tracey Moses, Cindy Fraser, and Iesha Parris registered their distances in pit.
Hooper leaped away with the Women’s Triple Jump with best jump of 10m12cm, Tracey Moses and IGG High Jump bronze medalist, Marica Isaacs jumped distances of 9m52cm and 9m50cm to claim second and third place respectively.
Alita Moore took the long jump with a distance of 5m03cm as Moses and Hooper battled for second and third. Moses 4m97cm leap narrowly edged out Hooper’s leap of 4m96cm for second place.
Leon Bishop, who was second at the last Developmental Meet at the Guyana Defence Force ground, sprung to 6m89cm to claim the Men’s Long Jump ahead of Linden’s Parris Cadogan (6m75cm) and Winston Caesar (6m72cm).
Winston and Parris leaped away with the Men’s Triple Jump with distances of 14m51cm and 13m63cm.

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