BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – FROM today interest is expected to peak at the Olympics when Athletics take centre stage.
Some twenty two athletic events are expected to take place and they are divided into four groups: track events (including sprints, middle- and long-distance running, hurdling and relays) This is the group in which the Caribbean is destined to shine, but they do participate in other groups.
Then you have the field events (including javelin, discus, hammer, pole vault, long and triple jumps) and road events (such as walks and the marathon) and combined events (the heptathlon and the decathlon)
Our athletes still have to journey towards the finals at the Olympics due to the large number of athletes who qualify to participate.
Most of today will be spent in Heats to enable the best of the best to qualify for the Finals in each event.
Here’s your schedule for today:
TRACK & FIELD SCHEDULE
AUGUST 3, 2012 – EST Times
MORNING SESSION
Men's Shot Put Qualification – 5:00am
Group A - Dorian Scott (JAM)
Women's Triple Jump Qualification – 5:25am
Group A - Kimberly Williams (JAM); Group B - Trecia Smith (JAM); Ayanna Alexander (TRI)
Women's 100M Preliminaries - 5:40am
NB – No Caribbean athletes will take part in the preliminaries as they've met the Olympic A and B standards
Men's 400M Hurdles
Heat 1 - Roxroy Cato (JAM) at 6:15 am
Heat 2 - Leford Green (JAM) at 6:22am
Heat 5 - Jehue Gordon (TRI) 5:43am
Heat 6 - Josef Robertson (JAM)
Women's 400M
Heat 2 - Christine Day (JAM), Shaunae Miller (BAH), Afia Charles (ANT), Aliann Pompey (GUY) at 7:08am
Heat 3 - Rosemarie Whyte (JAM) at 7:16am
Heat 6 - Novlene Williams-Mills (JAM), Kineke Alexander (ST. VIN) at 7:40am
AFTERNOON SESSION
Women's 100M Heats – 2:05pm
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Veronica Campbell-Brown & Kerron Stewart (JAM), Sheniqua Ferguson & Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (BAH), Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Semoy Hackett & Michelle-Lee Ahye (TRI), Allison Peter (ISV), Laverne Jones-Ferrette (ISV), Tahesia Harrigan-Scott (IVB)
Women's Discus Throw
Group A – Allison Randall (JAM) 2:10pm
Men's Long Jump – 2:50pm
Group A - Damar Forbes (JAM)
Group B - Raymond Higgs (BAH)
Men's Shot Put Final – 2:30pm
Thanks to Trackalerts and SKNAAA for the information.
