Phillips, Archer miss CARIFTA Games qualifying times

By Stabroek News On In Sports |
Sprint sensations, Kenisha Phillips (lane 5) and Deshanna Skeete (lane 4) race to the line yesterday in the 200m. While Skeete met the qualifying standard for the U-17 Girls 200 and 400m events, Phillips narrowly missed the mark in the U-20 Girls 100 and 200m races. Phillips posted 11.86s in the 100m which had a qualifying standard of 11.85s. Her 24.22s also narrowly missed the 200m qualifying time of 24.20s.
Sprint sensations, Kenisha Phillips (lane 5) and Deshanna Skeete (lane 4) race to the line yesterday in the 200m. While Skeete met the qualifying standard for the U-17 Girls 200 and 400m events, Phillips narrowly missed the mark in the U-20 Girls 100 and 200m races. Phillips posted 11.86s in the 100m which had a qualifying standard of 11.85s. Her 24.22s also narrowly missed the 200m qualifying time of 24.20s.

The number of potential CARIFTA Games representatives increased from eight to 10 yesterday following the third and final qualifier at the National Track and Field Centre.

Shot putter, Jermaine Simmons and long jumper Tremayne Browne joined the eight other hopefuls who gave themselves a chance at punching a ticket to the Bahamas where the 47th edition of the region’s premier Games will be staged during the Easter weekend.

Sprinter, Kenisha Phillips and middle distance athlete, Joanna Archer were some of the notable athletes who narrowly missed out on achieving the CARIFTA Qualifying standard set by the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG).