GUYANA’S Kenisha Phillips landed two gold, and one silver and bronze each to win big at the recently concluded Hampton International Games which played out at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Twin Island Republic Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend. Representing her country and her club, De Challengers, Phillips, whose trip was sponsored by MINGS Products & Services Ltd, returned to Guyana, with the spoils of her trip late last Sunday, a press release said.
Phillips clinched individual glory in the Girls’ Under-16 200m, 400m and 100m, while she teamed up to win medals in the Girls’ Under-20 4x400m relay where she won silver.
It was in the 200m and 400m that Phillips won her gold, while the bronze was off her performance in the 100m dash, where she unfortunately almost fell at the start of her race.
In the 100m, Phillips pushed off at the start, but her blocks went backwards and she almost fell. The sprint sensation was last off, but recovered enough to fight for her third place in a time of 12.38 seconds a mere 0.12 seconds behind the winner. A subsequent check of her blocks revealed that they were not pinned to the track.
In the 200m Phillips destroyed the field in 24.49 seconds, an unquestionable win with second-place finisher coming in at 25.04 seconds. She had a very exciting and close race in the 400m, winning by 6 hundredths of a second in a time of 56.44 seconds.