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Mar 18, 2013 Sports
– tops Morgan, Foster in impressive 1500m race
Linden’s middle distance prodigy, Cassey George, who Kaieteur Sport first featured during the National Schools’ Championships last year, rise to middle distance dominance continued at the fourth Development Meet yesterday with another big win.
George, a junior sensation, upset her senior counterpart and well decorated, Alika Morgan at the Guyana Defense Force Ground, dipping under the five minute mark for the second time this year in the 1500m event of the Athletics Association of Guyana event.
George ran a time of 4:52.1 after recording 4:44.1 in her first 1500m earlier this year at the junior CARIFTA Games trials. Morgan trailed in a distant second in 5:07.1 while the 1500m CARIFTA bronze medalist from last year, Andrea Foster (5:08.7) was third.
CARIFTA selectee, Tirana Mitchell also continued to impress with a 24.1 seconds 200m in the U-17 race. Mitchell’s time is the fastest locally for the year. Avon Samuels, also selected for the CARIFTA Games, clocked 24.7s for second. Samuels, however, returned in the U-17 400m with a 58.6s performance.
Jason Yaw, also on the CARIFTA Games team, stocked up well against some senior competitors as he came a close second to Akeem Stewart, who won the 200m event in a time of 21.1s. Yaw clocked 21.6s for second while Elton Bollers (21.8s) was third.
Tevin Garraway topped all U-20 athletes in a time of 10.6s. Kevin Abbensetts was second in the event with a time of 10.7s while Samuel Doris (10.8s) was third. Alita Moore destroyed the field in women’s 100m with a time of 11.7s. Tasnica Lovell (12.8s) was second while Kaieteur Sport could not ascertain third place in the event.
National Schools 800m and 1500m gold medalist, Devaughn ‘Scooby’ Barrington ran away with the 800m win in 2:00.2 while Ornesto Thomas (2:00.3s) finished second.
Meanwhile in some senior events, Maurice Gibson won the triple jump with his leap of 13.08m ahead of Troy Williams and Leon Bishop. In the discus throw, Julio Sinclair dominated with a throw of 39.38m while Royston Ross (36.65m) and Cordel English (36.39m) came second and third respectively.
In the female version of the discus throw, Latoya Rodney easily won the event with a throw of 27.25m, leaving Rushell Cuffy in second with a throw of 25.02m while Jimeal Richmond was third with a throw of 23.55m. The University of Guyana won the 4x400m event in a time of 3:33.8s to close the day.
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