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The athletes from Extreme Velocity Club are back in Barbados after a successful trip last weekend to Canada where they won six gold and three silver medals. CARIFTA Games sprinter Amani Mascoll-Beckles was the star performer with two gold medals, while Tonique Fleming, Rihan Price, Zachary Alexander and Jeremy Small also won gold medals. Competing at the Variety Village Athletic Club Meet in Toronto, Mascoll-Beckles sustained his early season form …

It was extreme speed from Amani Mascoll-Beckles as he enjoyed a triple qualifying treat for the CARIFTA Games while there was also a triple jump of joy for Aaron Massiah on Sunday at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex. Mascoll-Beckles, a Lodge School sixth-former and Extreme Velocity sprinter, went under the qualifying mark with career-best times in both the 100 metres and 200 metres when the Athletics Association of Barbados staged …

It will be a battle promotion to the Division One competition when IGS Insurance Yorkshire clash with Windward in the 2022 four-day Barbados Cricket Association’s Intermediate final at Foursquare Oval in St Philip starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Hothersal Turning-based Yorkshire, who were a formidable Intermediate side in the late 1970s and 1980s, will be seeking a double triumph after winning the Division One competition and gaining promotion to …

Barbados’ track darling Sada Williams wants to hear her country’s National Anthem being played at next year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The record-breaking Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the women’s 400 metres in Birmingham, wants to improve on her bronze medal at the last World Championships in Eugene, Oregon when she clocked a new national time of 49.75 seconds. “A gold medal of course. That’s the major meet that …

J.C.B Boscobelle, benefiting from an all-round team effort, beat St John Cultural by seven wickets in yesterday’s final to become the Barbados Cricket Association’s Intermediate Shield 40-over champions for the first time in the club’s history. Playing at the Maurice King Sports Complex in Briar Hall, Boscobelle outplayed St John Cultural in all facets of the game, much to the delight of their supporters among the estimated 400 spectators scattered …

The oldest record in Barbados’ track and field history has finally been broken. Middle distance runner Jonathan Jones went where no other Barbadian athlete has gone when he clocked an amazing 1:45.83 minutes to win the men’s 800 metres at the Texas Relays on Thursday night. He won the two-lap race in the United States to erase Orlando Greene’s long-standing time of 1:46.24 minutes which was set 45 years ago …

Multi-talented athlete Vivica Addison is the latest locally-based CARIFTA Games qualifier. The national netballer set a new National Junior Championships’ meet record as she hurled the javelin 43.95 metres during competition at the National Stadium on Saturday afternoon to comfortably surpass the CARIFTA standard of 39.50 metres for Under-20 girls. Asabi Callender, who qualified at the Louis Lynch Championships with a meet equalling 41.94 metres when her Rising Stars’ colleague …

Commonwealth Games-bound Jabali Breedy, Charles Cox and Kimberly Gittens will headline a seven-member Barbados boxing team at the Americas Boxing Confederation’s Continental Elite Boxing Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador from March 22 to April 2. For Breedy, who is currently in Washington DC training with his brother, Cobia Breedy, light heavyweight Cox and middleweight Gittens this event will serve as part of their preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England …

Five-time winner of the island’s premier event, Jamaica’s Jeff Panton is eagerly looking forward to some close competition in Sol Rally Barbados, which he will enter this year for the first time in the growing FIA R5 class. As the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) marks its 65th anniversary, this year’s event is scheduled for June 4 and 5, with King of the Hill preceding on Sunday, May 29. With his …

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