It wasn't the fastest, but definitely the most competitive
race in the the 11-year history of the Delioite-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half
Marathon, that ended with St. Thomas' Ruth Ann David improving her own course
record on Saturday.
It wasn't the fastest, but definitely the most competitive
race in the the 11-year history of the Delioite-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half
Marathon, that ended with St. Thomas' Ruth Ann David improving her own course
record on Saturday.
While Reuben Stoby and Rosmond Johnson were securing a repeat of their respective Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series titles, young Sam Potgieter was stealing the show with another record run to close the One Mile Division.
After coming within three seconds of Renold Brown's 13-year old Virgin Gorda College Classic Series record in his last outing, Reuben Stoby wanted to take down the mark on Saturday morning, but thought long and hard about his afternoon battle with Julius Farley for the Ceres Juices 10K Series overall crown.
Khadjja Sampson who won the 2015 OECS Swimming Championships 100m freestyle bronze medal as an eight-year old, shattered her own Mournat Ozannes College Classic Series One Mile Girls Division record on Saturday.
While Gayle Lindsay, a former 400/800m was on holiday visiting her twin sister and churning out a victory in the process and Rebuen Stoby was continuing his winning ways, the Rotary Sunrise Club was upending defending champions Rotary Club of Tortola, who hadn't lost a Service Clubs Cross Country race in the last 11 seasons of the Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series.
Including a record 78 in the One Mile Division, a near record 262 participants-just three off the mark-kicked off the 21st Highland Spring College Classic Series at the HLSCC in Paraquita Bay on Saturday morning.
Ahead of the 21st College Classic Series opener on Sept 17, fall road racing on Tortola resumed with Saturday's Ceres Juices 10K Series in Carrot Bay, where Reuben Stoby and Maria Mays were the respective male and female winners.
Sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott left her third Olympic Games
disappointed after an unlooked for performance of 11.54 seconds in her 100m
heat in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished sixth. Compounding matters was the
fact that the three times Olympian ran and unchallenged 11.40 days before she
departed for the competition.
When sprinter Ashely Kelly learned from Chef de Mission Stephanie Russ Penn that she would be the flag bearer, she was totally surprised.
TORTOLA-After 30 years of participating, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, won the territory's first medal in its history at the IAAF World Jr. Championships, when he claimed 400m Hurdles bronze on Saturday in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The BVI has been participating in IAAF World Jr. competition since 1986.
TORTOLA-Kyron McMaster won his 400m Hurdles semifinal heat on Friday evening and automatically advanced to today's final in the XVI IAAF World Jr. Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He will face the starter's gun at 1:15 p.m. today in search of a medal, running from lane seven.
British Virgin Islands 400m Hurdler Lakeisha Warner and sprinter L'T'Sha Fahie, advanced to today's semifinals of their respective events in the XVI IAAF World Jr. Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Wednesday.
TORTOLA-On the strength of its women's team, hosts British Virgin Islands landed the 2nd OECS Track and Field Championships on Sunday night in a close battle with St. Kitts-Nevis and Grenada at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.
TORTOLA-Hosts British Virgin Islands Women's 4x100m Relay, capped a record setting Day 1 of the 2nd OECS Championships, by breaking the seven-year old OECS mark established by St. Kitts-Nevis in 2009.
With the addition of Trinidad and Tobago's Women's 4 x 400m Relay added to the 2nd OECS Championships line up as they seek to qualify for Rio, BVI Athletics Association officials are now expecting 185 visiting athletes and officials for the 2 day competition on Saturday and Sunday.
TORTOLA-Organizers are expecting 150 visiting athletes and
officials for the 2nd OECS Track and Field Championships scheduled
for Tortola on July 2-3, at the A. O. Shirley Grounds, with non OECS member
Puerto Rico's Women's 4x100m Relay team seeking to solidify their #16 ranking
for the Rio Olympic Games.
When he entered the A. O. Shirley Grounds after a see saw
battle through the streets of Road Town, Julius Farley kept looking back, just
incase he had to dig a little deeper. It wasn't necessary as he had created
enough separation between himself and challenger Reuben Stoby, to break the
tape in Saturday's Ceres Juices 10K Series Opener in 39 minutes and 24 seconds-much
to his surprise-for his first victory of the season over his rival, who had
been dominating the road racing scene.
Merely a year after taking up the 400m Hurdles and winning
Carifta Games silver in Grenada earlier this year, multiple National Record holder
Lakeisha "Mimi" Warner on Thursday afternoon, signed a letter of intent with
the Clemson Tigers. She will compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Led by their Jr. Girls 4 x 400m Relay quartet, Sprint Tech
Track Club athletes demolished two Jr. relay records during Saturday's 41st
Flo Golden South Classic in Claremont, Fla., as several athletes also recorded
personal bests marks.
Twin sisters and Central Arizona College sophomores Tynelle
and Trevia Gumbs, ended their Jr. College career by grabbing All America honors
during the National Jr. Colleges Athletics Association Championships in
Levelland, Texas.
TORTOLA-Melissa Brunner and Reuben Stoby closed the Blenheim
Trust 5K Series with victories on Saturday. The race started and ended at the A.
O. Shirley Grounds.
In between a pre meet shower on Friday and a threat of rain
and Saturday's end the BVI Athletics Association National Youth Championships-which
also celebrated the 21st IAAF World Athletics Day-Ariyah Smith led the
territory's top U15 athletes and visiting athletes from St. Croix, with four
victories.
VIRGIN GORDA--For a moment during Saturday's 5th
Virgin Gorda Half Marathon, Vincent Fournier thought he'd given home turf
advantage to Tortola resident Ruben Stoby, who opened a sizeable gap.
The top U15 athletes across the territory have been invited
to participate in Friday and Saturday's BVI Athletics Association National Youth
Championships, which will also mark the 21st IAAF World Athletics
Day.
Central Arizona College sophomore Tynelle Gumbs,
systematically dominated the Region I Championships, winning three of the four
throws, ahead of the upcoming National Jr. Colleges Athletics Association
Championships on May 17-19, at South Plains College, in Levelland, Texas.
The British Virgin Islands quartet of Ashley Kelly, Tahesia
Harrigan-Scott, Chantel Malone and Karene King, competed at the prestigious Penn
Relays in the USA vs the World 4x100m relay on Saturday. They finished sixth in
44.97 seconds.
TORTOLA-Reuben Stoby and Maria Mays were the top male and
female finishers in Saturday's Dive BVI 10k Series finale-the final tune up for
the 5th annual Virgin Gorda Half Marathon and Six Miles Challenge on
May 14.
TORTOLA-The British Virgin Islands will host the 2nd
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Track and Field Championships,
July 1-3 at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds and officials are expecting 'top
flight competition' from the sub region's athletes.