The country’s top junior and senior athletes will battle for supremacy today at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground, Camp Ayanganna when the GDF athletics club in conjunction with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) stages a Developmental Meet from 10am.
The meet, the second its kind, will see the likes of Stephan James, Winston George, Jason Yaw, Wayne Harlequin, Keith Roberts, Alita Moore, Tirana Mitchell, Cassie George, Avon Samuel, Jevina Straker, Leota Babb and Alisha Fortune competing on what is regarded as the fastest track in Guyana.
George captured a sprint triple last weekend at the first Developmental Meet held by the AAG/Running Brave Athletics Club. George ruled in the men’s 100m, 200m and 400m besting a field that included the likes of 400m junior record holder, James.
James and George will meet again at the starting line in the men’s 200m and 400m while Leota Babb, who had a false start in her first race for the season, will be looking to correct her mistake in the women’s 100m.
The Junior CARIFTA Athletes have their final chance to impress the association before they depart next week for the XLII CARIFTA Games in Nassau, The Bahamas at the Robinson National Stadium. Moore will aim to reduce the 100m time of 11.88 seconds she registered at the AAG CATIFTA Trials on the grass track before competing on the synthetic track. The men’s triple jump will open the Developmental Meet followed by the sprint events. Troy Williams of Police Progressive Youth Club and Morris Gibson of Running Braves along with other senior jumpers will battle for supremacy.
