Team Barbados won 11 medals, including three gold yesterday, the opening night of the 36th CARIFTA Aquatics Championships in Curacao. Heidi Stoute won gold in the 13-14 girls’ 800m freestyle (no official times available); Adara Stoddard took gold in the 15-17 girls 200m backstroke and the 13-14 girls’ 4x100m relay team was also in winner’s row. There were three silver medals, all in the 11-12 age category. Zachary Burke won …
Barbados’ swimmers put on a fantastic performance on Sunday, to climax the BASA Long Course National Championships, with Heidi Stoute and Brennan Watson displaying their stamina and skills to qualify for the CARIFTA Championships in the gruelling 800 metres freestyle. Needing to beat the 10:10.48 minutes among the girls’ 13-14 age category, Pirates’ Stoute cruised home in 9:33.53. Watson, also of Pirates, needed to go under a time 9:45.65 minutes …
Several national swimmers have made the qualifying standard at the 2023 Barbados Aquatic Sports Long Course National Swimming Championships which commenced yesterday evening at the National Aquatic Centre in Wildey.Among Barbados’ top junior swimmers making the qualifying standards in the freestyle and butterfly events for the 2023 CARIFTA Aquatics Championships scheduled for Curacao were Heidi Stoute (18:09.46) and Isabella Mayers (19:45.23) in the 1500 metres freestyle for 13 to 14 girls.Brennan Watson is the lone competitor in the boys’ 13 to 14 to qualify in the 1500 metres freestyle (18:24.14) which is a ‘B’ standard.Also in the girls’ 15 to 17 1500 metres freestyle, Heidi Baker (20:25.44), Kenyah Deane (19:06.62) and Rebecca Weekes (20:26.66) all secured their spots.Booking her ticket in the 11 to 12 girls’ 200 metres freestyle was Amiya Harrison (2:25.57) and Mihael Sobers (2:23.16) in the boys’ equivalent.
By Morissa Lindsay
Barbados’ track extraordinaire Sada Williams OLY took centrestage as the Senior Female Athlete of the Year, along with hurdler Shane Brathwaite OLY named the Senior Male Athlete of the Year at the 2022 Barbados Olympic Association/International Game Technology (IGT) Dinner and Awards Ceremony.
On Monday night when the very best sporting talents met at the Needhams Ballroom, Hilton