TEAM GRENADA FOR IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

by Michael Bascombe

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Aug 5 – Four (4) Olympians are included in a six-member Grenada team for the 12^th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, August 15-23.

The Grenada Athletics Association (GAA) has released the names of the team members who will compete in five events.

The team also includes two athletes who have competed in the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki – Triple Jumper Randy Lewis and Neisha Bernard-Thomas in the 800m.

The other members who are all making their World Championships’ debuts are Rondell Bartholomew, Joel Redhead, Trish Bartholomew and Patricia Sylvester.

Lewis and Bernard-Thomas have been competing in Europe over the past few months and should be competition ready for Berlin. Lewis’ best effort in the triple jump for the year has been 17.17m in June while Bernard-Thomas clocked 2:02.02 at the Jamaica National Championships in Kingston in late June.

Rondell Bartholomew, who only last week copped bronze at the Pan-American Junior Track and Field Championships in Trinidad, will be hoping to better his season’s best of 45.58 seconds in the 400m when he finished runners-up to Kirani James at the Junior CARIFTA Games in St. Lucia in April.

Redhead had an outstanding outdoor season for Bethune-Cookman University in South Florida and clocked a personal best of 20.49 seconds in the 200m at the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Arizona in June.

Trish Bartholomew posted a season’s best of 52.01 seconds in the 400m in May bettering her Beijing Olympic Games’ performance of 52.88 seconds while Sylvester will compete in both the triple and long jump events. She had season’s best performances of 6.43m in Belem, Brazil and 13.76m in La Habana, Cuba.

Roster – 12^th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin, Germany

Men

200m: Joel Redhead

400m: Rondell Bartholomew

Triple Jump: Randy Lewis

Women

400m:

Trish Bartholomew

800m:

Neisha Bernard-Thomas

Triple & Long Jumps:

Patricia Sylvester

Coach:

Albert Joseph

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