Barbados: Barbados is all set to host the Americas 2024 Triathlon Cup on Sunday on the Mighty Grynner Freeway from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. The event will function the participation of a number of groups from completely different international locations.
Barbados can be represented by the staff which consists of Mathew Wright, Fynn Armstrong, Zahra Gaskin and Cain Banfield. The athletes will take part in several sporting occasions and work to realize factors to win the cup.
Firstly, Matthew Wright, who will use the race to realize very important Olympic Qualification Factors, wanted to assist him safe his spot on the beginning line in Paris later this 12 months. Apart from this, Fynn Armstrong and Cain Banfield will characterize Barbados by collaborating within the males’s spherical of the triathlon cup.
However, Zahra Gaskin will take part within the girls’s spherical to characterize Barbados within the cup.
Fynn is a CARIFTA medalist in triathlon, aquathlon, and observe and subject, and he represented Barbados on the Commonwealth Youth Video games in Trinidad and Tobago final 12 months. The Harrison Faculty pupil has been a constant prime performer in native triathlons.
Cain 15, is the youngest of all of the rivals in a race the place the typical age is 24. The Harrison Faculty pupil represented Barbados at CARIFTA and he had a profitable 2023 season, with the spotlight being a ninth place end within the USA Triathlon Nationals, in Wisconsin.
Barbados Nationwide Aquathlon Champion (feminine), Zahra Gaskin, began in triathlons on the age of 5 with the BFIT Children’ collection and she or he has represented Barbados at CARIFTA and on the inaugural 2021 Junior Pan American Video games in Colombia.
A former pupil of Harrison Faculty, Zahra is at present on scholarship at Wingate College in North Carolina, USA and she or he represents them in Triathlons.
The cup can even be used for the Olympic qualification as athletes who will compete within the tourism will get the possibility to win the prize cash for the primary place, US$1,500. The prize cash for the second place of the event can be US$1,250, and the third place will obtain US$1,000.
The feminine dash will begin at 7: 00 am and the boys’s can be at 8: 45 am. Additional, it is going to be adopted by the awards ceremony at 10: 30 am and the general public is invited to return out and assist the athletes.
