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Feb 24, 2012 Sports
-trials set for March 4 with grand take away lunch as fund raiser
The technical committee of the Athletic Association of Guyana along with several coaches from various clubs across Guyana, assembled Wednesday (22 February) afternoon at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, Kingston to set the qualifying timings for 2012 CARIFTA Games which will be hosted in Hamilton, Bermuda from 6th-9th of April at the National Stadium.
After hours of deliberating several years of CARIFTA third place timings dated back from 2001, a realistic qualifying timing was set by the technical committee and coaches for the vying CARIFTTA athletes to meet.
2011 Guyana CARIFTA team had a final total of four athletes; the athletes which came from different parts of Guyana represented their country in the both middle distance and sprint events.
Melissa Byass of Berbice, had the privilege of running the girls’ 400 meter dash under 17 (58.97 seconds), Nathaniel Giddings of Upper Demerara Club ran the boys under 20, 1500m (4:38.83 seconds) and 5000m (17:33.46 seconds), Jevina Straker of Georgetown, ran the girls 800m U20 (2:21.02 seconds) and the 1500m U20 girls (4:55.49 seconds), Stephan James whose also from Georgetown ran the 200m (22.58 seconds) boys under 20 and the 400 boys (48.46 seconds).
The AAG CARIFTA trials is set for March 4 at the Police Sports Club ground, a grand take away lunch will be held in aid of raising funds for the team which will be traveling to Bermuda to represent Guyana.
The realistic timings for the trials are as follow:
AAG QUALIFYING TIMINGS
2012 CARIFTA GAMES
(Bermuda April 6th – 9th 2012)
UNDER 17FEMALES UNDER 17MALES
Event
100M 12.00 10.90
200M 25.00 22.00
400m 58.00 50.00
800M 2:18.00 1:58.30
1500M 4:54.00 4:10.00
3000M 10:57.00 9:16.00
Long Jump 5m40 6m50
High Jump 1m70 1m80
Triple Jump 11m30 13m10
Discus 33m 40m35
Shot Put 10m30 13m50
Javelin 30m50 50m20
UNDER 20FEMALES UNDER 20MALES
Event
100M 11.90 10.60
200M 24.80 21.50
400m 55.30 48.00
800M 2:15.30 1:54.00
1500M 4:44.00 4:00.00
3000M 10:57.00
5000M 15:40.00
Long Jump 5m74 7m11
High Jump 1m70 2m
Triple Jump 12m30 14m82
Discus 38m09 50m60
Shot Put 12m93 16m86
Javelin 42m15 58m42
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