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Saturday, May 3, 2025

T&T relay teams in World Junior action today

...Ce­de­nio dom­i­nates 400m heats

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T&T's two high­ly rat­ed 4x100m re­lay teams will at­tempt to book a spot in to­mor­row's semi­fi­nals, at the IAAF World Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships, in Eu­gene, Ore­gon, when they con­test the women and men's heats from 9.05 pm to­day.

The two re­lay heats will fol­low­ing in­di­vid­ual per­for­mances from Shakiel Wait­he and Ak­i­la Mc Shine, who will line-up in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies of the men's javelin and the girls' 100m hur­dles.

Mc­Shine, whose per­son­al best stands at 13.91 sec­onds will line up in heat five at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2 pm. then at around 3.45 pm, Shack­iel Wait­he, whose sea­son best of 72.75m (fifth best in the line-up) will at­tempt to qual­i­fy out of the pre­lim­i­nar­ies with the in­ten­tion of at­tain­ing suc­cess sim­i­lar to Keshorn Wal­cott, who won gold two years ago.

T&T's men's 4x100m re­lay team (Jonathan Far­in­ha, John Mark Con­stan­tine, Hol­land Cabare, Mic­ah Bal­lan­tyne, Akan­ni His­lop and Aaron Lewis), is ex­pect­ed to run its first heat just af­ter 9.40 pm, fol­low­ing the girls' at­tempt at the same dis­tance. The girls' .team in­cludes Za­kiya De­noon, Aaliyah Teles­ford, Kayelle Clarke, Mauri­cia Pre­ito and Tr­ishelle Lea­cock.

Suc­cess­ful teams will ad­vance di­rect­ly to the fi­nal card­ed for to­mor­row.

Mean­while, ac­tion on Wednes­day night saw Jonathan Far­in­ha, one of T&T's best prospects at pre­cious met­al fin­ish eighth from as many ath­letes in the Men's 100m fi­nal. He clocked 10.47 sec­onds. Amer­i­can pair Kendal Williams and Trayvon Bromell took a top-two fin­ish in 10.21 and 10.28 sec­onds, re­spec­tive­ly. He re­turned to ac­tion in the 200m heats, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon where he placed 11th over­all with a 21.11 mark.

The semi­fi­nals were card­ed for 9.40 pm. The fi­nal will run at 11.10 tonight.

T&T's ju­nior world lead­ing 400m run­ner, Machel Ce­de­nio, had a strong per­for­mance as he blis­tered in the heats to qual­i­fy eas­i­ly for last night's 400m semi­fi­nal. Ce­de­nio clocked 45.90 sec­onds, while USA's Tyler Brown and Alexan­der Sam­pao of Kenya ran 45.97 and 46.21 sec­onds as the sec­ond and third fastest qual­i­fiers, re­spec­tive­ly.

The men's 400m fi­nal ran af­ter press time last night. Rue­bin Wal­ters, who ran the sev­enth fastest time over­all in the men's 110m hur­dles semi­fi­nals, al­so con­test­ed the fi­nal af­ter press time. He ran 13.61 sec­onds in the semi­fi­nal, af­ter run­ning 13.76 in the heats.


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