Already an IAAF World Championships Long Jump qualifier, Chantel Malone will run the 400m in Mexico
JULY 3—Five athletes—including two bound for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August—will represent the British Virgin Islands at the 2013 CAC Sr. Championships in Morella, Mexico, July 5-7.
World Championships qualifiers Chantel Malone and Karene King will lead the athletes who will compete in sprint, field events and the Heptathlon.
Malone who recorded a 6.68m career best Long Jump leap at the Chris Brown Invitational in the Bahamas to qualify for worlds and had a third placed 6.57m effort during Saturday’s Edmonton International Athletics Festival in Canada and the same measurement at the at the Jamaica Trials last month, will run the 400m, where she has recorded the fastest time by a BVI athlete this season of 53.19 seconds.
King is coming off becoming the territory’s third athlete heading to Moscow along with Malone and Tahesia Harigan-Scott, after she ran a 200m personal best of 23.24 seconds during the Trinidad and Tobago Championships, by knocking 1.1 off her previous mark run twice this year.
King will also see action in the 100m and will be joined by Ashley Kelly in the 200m. The wind Gods haven’t been on Kelly’s side as most of her races have been wind aided including running 23.23. She will skip the 400m where she has run 53.54.
Kanishque Todman will try to improve on her 4046 points National Record in the Heptathlon.
Keron Stoute—the lone male on the squad—will contest the High Jump. He was a podium finisher in the MEAC Championships in both the High Jump and the Decathlon.