On the Miramar Invitational held in Florida, Caribbean athletes showcased their expertise on the worldwide stage, with Shafiqua Maloney of St Vincent & the Grenadines main the cost with a powerful victory within the girls’s 600 meters occasion.
Maloney, the nationwide file holder within the girls’s 800m for SVG, demonstrated her prowess by setting a brand new nationwide file within the 600m with a time of 1 minute and 23.80 seconds. Her snug win highlighted her distinctive type and solidified her standing as a rising star in Caribbean athletics.
Becoming a member of Maloney within the winner’s circle have been three different English-speaking Caribbean athletes who claimed victory of their respective occasions. Sada Williams, a two-time girls’s world 400m bronze medalist, secured victory within the girls’s 200m with a time of twenty-two.82 seconds.
Tyler Mason triumphed within the males’s 110 hurdles
Jamaican dash hurdler Tyler Mason triumphed within the males’s 110 hurdles, clocking 13.57 seconds. Moreover, Bahamian quarter-miler Alonzo Russell clinched victory within the males’s 400m with a season’s greatest time of 45.35 seconds.
Whereas Maloney’s win was the spotlight of the Caribbean performances, different notable achievements included Jamaican Danniel Thomas-Dodd’s third-place end within the girls’s shot put and Chanice Porter’s second-place end within the girls’s lengthy bounce.
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Total, the success of Caribbean athletes on the Miramar Invitational underscores the area’s rising presence in worldwide athletics and highlights the expertise and potential of its opponents on the worldwide stage.