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Multi-talented athlete Vivica Addison is the latest locally-based CARIFTA Games qualifier. The national netballer set a new National Junior Championships’ meet record as she hurled the javelin 43.95 metres during competition at the National Stadium on Saturday afternoon to comfortably surpass the CARIFTA standard of 39.50 metres for Under-20 girls. Asabi Callender, who qualified at the Louis Lynch Championships with a meet equalling 41.94 metres when her Rising Stars’ colleague …
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Local junior athletes like Savion Hoyte will now be hoping to qualify for meets likes the Junior Pan Games. (Picture by Kenmore Bynoe.) Social Share
Even though this year’s CARIFTA Games have been cancelled, home-based Barbadian athletes will be back on track this week with the Athletics Association of Barbados’ (AAB) track and field season now set to begin on Saturday behind closed doors at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex.
AAB public relations officer Esther Maynard told MIDWEEK SPORT that a final inspection of the Ryan Brathwaite Track would be carried out this week in preparation for the Back On Track Meet, which will be held in the absence of spectators with all COVID-19 protocols in place.
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The Lester Vaughan School reigned supreme on home soil again to capture the inaugural Rivaldo Leacock Athletics Championship title yesterday.
Continuing from a slender six-point lead at the start of the final day, the former Barbados Secondary School’s Athletics Championship (BSSAC) winners earned 488 points, holding off stiff competition from The Alleyne School (444) to be crowned champions at the school’s ground.
Coleridge & Parry totalled 438 points to claim third position, while St George Secondary School were fourth with 334 points.
The athletes from Cane Garden, St Thomas, were propelled to victory by an overall team effort, with stellar performances from 14-year-old Davina Gaskin and senior boy Savion Hoyte. (AGB)