Rowland Kirton-Browne can now book her flight for the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, Bahamas.
She threw a magnificent 41.90 metres in the javelin to smash the 37 metres CARIFTA qualifying mark in the Under-17 girls’ division at the Young Olympians Classic at the National Stadium on Saturday.
The Rising Stars athlete will be hoping to repeat that performance to possibly bring home a medal in the Easter games set for March 30 to April 2.
Though she was unable to meet the requirements in the shot put, which stands at 13 metres, the multi-sport athlete also won that event with an effort of 11.65 metres.
Kirton-Browne now joins the list of Under-17 athletes – Shanice Hutson, Dominique Wood, Kyle Gale and Sarah Belle – who have already met the CARIFTA standard.
Jaliyah Denny remains among the list of athletes in that age group who have not yet qualified for the upcoming games.
Proformers Track Club athlete and three-time fitness champion in the National Sports Council’s Miss Schoolgirl fitness competition, Adeyah Brewster, had enough energy left to beat Denny on the line in the Under-17 Girls’ 100 metres.
The Alexandra student clocked 12.75 seconds to finish ahead of Denny’s 12.88 seconds. However, her teammate Anika Blackman defeated her in the Under-17 Girls’ 100 metres hurdles event.
Blackman placed second in the 200 metres after she lost that event to Kamile Gaskin-Griffith, also of Proformers, who registered 26.39 seconds.
Khalil Roberts of Harrison College ran a slow Under-17 Boys’ 100 metres to win in a time of 12.21 seconds.
Pacers Track Club’s Akil Howell will also need to run faster if he wants to meet the 48.90 seconds qualifying time in the 400 metres after crossing the finish line in the boys’ Under-17 event in 51.74 seconds.
Howell went on to win the 200 metres in 23.18 seconds.
The young, but talented Brieanna Boyce of De Cliff ran away from the pack to win the Under-15 girls’ 400 metres in a time of one minute 2.81 seconds.
Boyce, 13, the victrix ludorum at last year’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships (BSSAC), went on to place third in the 200 metres after Danica Gittens’ win in her heat recorded a faster time of 25.91 seconds.
Full Flyt Athletic Club’s Samiya Dell, formerly of Sharon Primary, won the Under-13 girls’ 400 metres in 1:05.52, while Krissaria Ballantyne of BC Trac Club clocked 1:07.08.
Dell, who will be competing at BSSAC for the first time since she is now at The St Michael School, also won the shot put in her division when her put measured 7.87 metres.
St Giles’ twins Tania and Tia Applewhite took the top two places in the Under-11 Girls’ 60-metre dash in 8.80 and 8.81 seconds respectively.
However, Tia clocked 14.06 seconds in the 100 metres to finish ahead of her sister who placed second in 14.15 seconds.
Young Ratanang Barker is already making strides to compete in the upcoming National Primary School’s Athletic Championships for St Stephen’s after running an impressive 800 metres in the Under-13 Boys’ Division to record 2:39.62 seconds on the clock. (RG)