Williams, Bright to represent Guyana at World Youth Championships
Chantoba Bright
Chantoba Bright

… Phillips, Rogers among five to attend Commonwealth Youth Games

CARIFTA Games gold medallist Chantoba Bright and South American Junior silver medallist

Daniel Williams

Daniel Williams are the athletes selected by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) to attend the IAAF World U-18 (Youth) Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, July 12-16.
AAG president Aubrey Hutson yesterday confirmed the selection while noting that five other youth athletes have also already been selected and submitted to be Guyana’s representatives in athletics at next month’s Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be held in the Bahamas from July 19 to 23.

The Commonwealth Youth Games athletes are sprinters Kenisha Phillips and Onasha Rogers, along with distance runner Claudrice McKoy, Danielle Melville and jumper Tremaine Browne.
Phillips and Rogers had qualified for the World Youth, along with Bright and Williams. However, Hutson explained that the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) would only be sponsoring the tickets of two athletes. Facing a cost of approximately US$8 000 per ticket, it was felt sending the other youth athletes to the Bahamas was a better option.

Additionally, Hutson noted that the athletes’ placements were also determined by how well it was calculated the athletes could fare at the different competitions.
“What we’re trying to do is to expose those athletes who can be more competitive at that particular Championship and the ones that we think may fare better at the Commonwealth level we send them to the Commonwealth Games,” Hutson said.
Bright has had qualifying standards in both the Girls’ long and triple jump, where the qualifying marks are 6m and 12.50m, respectively. A South American Junior Championships gold medallist Bright has a season’s best 6.30m in the long jump, which she cleared in last weekend’s SAJC

. However, she had already passed the mark since April when she was jumping 6.01m. The lack of wind readings in the long jump last weekend prevented Bright’s mark from standing as a national junior record.
In the triple jump her season’s best stands at 12.59m. Williams has thus far qualified in the Boys’ 400m, clocking a season’s best 48.24 seconds just last weekend, way inside the 49.1 seconds World Youth qualifying in this event. With a SB 21.81 seconds, he’s has a ‘B’ time in the Boys 200m, but is still outside the 21.8 seconds ‘A’ time.

The same goes for the Boys 100m where the IAAF is asking for 10.6 seconds, and he’s only reached 10.70 seconds thus far. However, he still has time with the National Senior Championships set for later this month, and the qualification period not ending until July 3.
For the Commonwealth Youth Phillips and Rogers will be in the Girls’ 100m and 200m, McKoy will be in the Girls’ 1500m and 3000m while Melville will be in the Boys’ 800m and Browne is expected to do the Boys’ long jump.
The coach for the World Youth team will be Johnny Gravesande while coach Julian Edmonds will be travelling with the team to the Bahamas.

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