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Barbadian track superstar and 400 metres world bronze medallist Sada Williams will be the first of three Bajans out the blocks on Sunday at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Williams, the country’s best medal prospect, starts her campaign at 3:51 a.m. Barbados time in lane nine of the third of six heats. Fellow quarter-milers Jonathan Jones and DeSean Boyce will line up in the heats of the men’s …
Ashlyn Simmons and Layla Haynes produced glorious gold medal middle-distance performances for Barbados in the evening session of day one of the 50th CARIFTA Games at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. The team won two gold and one silver medal on the opening day of competition. Running in the first track final of the meet, 16-year-old Simmons executed an excellent race in the Under-17 girls’ 1 500 …
Three of the four Barbadian athletes who qualified for the World Athletics Championships, which starts this coming Friday in the American city of Eugene, will represent the country. They are quarter-milers Sada Williams and Jonathan Jones, and sprint hurdler Shane Brathwaite. Barbados’ team to the prestigious track and field meet, which runs until July 24, was announced yesterday evening by the Athletics Association of Barbados. The fourth athlete, Tia Adana-Belle …
Many people are consumed by the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some members of the sporting world are confessing that some good came out of the last two years in their opinion. Geared up for CARIFTA 2022, coaches and athletes across
Barbados’ head coach Ramon Armstrong says the 18-member contingent set to represent the island at the 49th CARIFTA Games from April 16-18 in Kingston, Jamaica, will be boosted by an experienced Under-20 field team. The senior team is led by Vivica Addison, silver medallist in the javelin at the 2019 Games in the Cayman Islands, and double bronze medallists Aren Spencer, Kevon Hinds, and Layla Haynes. Fynn Armstrong will lead …