THE 2021 Aliann Pompey will be held on June 19 at the National Track and Field Centre, the event’s organiser told Chronicle Sport.
Pompey, Guyana’s Commonwealth Games 400m gold and silver medallist, saw her fifth edition of the AP Invitational, like most sport events in 2020, cancelled because of COVID-19.
This year’s AP Invitational will be seen as the ‘gateway to Tokyo’, since it can be the last resort for local, regional and international athletes who are seeking qualification to the July 23 – August

3 Olympic Games in Japan.

The AP Invitational, which ran off its inaugural event in 2016, saw 11 athletes, all from overseas, move on to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio.
In February of 2020, AP Invitational was announced by World Athletics as part of its structured World Athletics Continental Tour.
World Athletics had stated that the impetus for creating the Continental Tour was to provide more competition and earning opportunities for more athletes.
The AP Invitational will be one of two events that will be held in South America on the World Athletics Continental tour; the other – the Brazil Grand Prix.
At the 2018 AP Invitational, Kirani James, the 2012 Olympic Champion and 2016 Olympic silver medallist, clocked 44.99 seconds to not only win the ‘AP’ Invitational 400 metres, but also set a new ‘Track Record’.