HOURS before he won one of the top awards at the 2013 National Sports Council Awards Ceremony last Saturday evening, Barbadian sprinter Mario Burke was giving his Bahamian counterparts a taste of what they can look forward to at this year’s CARIFTA Games in Martinique.
Burke, Levi Cadogan and Rivaldo Leacock were all winners last weekend at the 11th Star Performers Track Classic which was held at the old Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas.
Burke, who took gold over this distance last year in the Under-17 division, won the Under-18 boys’ 100 metres in 10.65 seconds running into a 1.3 metres per second head wind.
Pulled along by Burke in the fourth heat of the timed finals, Naim Bourne of Swift Athletics was a distant second in 10.85 seconds, the only other runner to dip under 11 seconds. Kinard Rolle of SunBlazers was third overall in 11.14 seconds, also in the same heat.
Burke, who was named the Male Junior National Sports Personality later that evening, also won the 200 metres in 21.59 seconds (no wind available).
Fellow sprinter Cadogan took the Under-20 boys’ 100m dash in a wind-aided 10.51 seconds (3.3 m/s). Deedro Clarke of the host club was second in that same heat in 10.55, while Club Monica’s Dan Kerr was third in 10.75 seconds in a legal wind measured at 0.9 metres per second in the fourth heat.
Leacock, who won the gold medal in the Under-17 boys’ 400m hurdles, had no competition in that discipline.
He raced to the finish line in 53.64 seconds, with Star Trackers’ Mikhail Bethell a distant second in 1 minute 02.16 seconds. (SAT)
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