Source: www.guardian.co.tt
T&T athletes picked up two more gold medals as 117th Penn Relays ended at Franklyn Field, Pennsylvania, USA on Saturday. Ayanna Alexander and Keston Bledman won their respective events with Commonwealth silver medallist Alexander topping the field in the women’s triple jump with a wind-added 13.47m (+2.3m/s). American Toni Smith grabbed silver with the same distance. However, Alexander got the edge with her next best jump of 13.41.
Olympic and world sprint relay silver medallist Bledman took the 100m in 10.20 seconds ahead of another American Rae Edwards (10.27) with Bahamas’ Adrian Griffith copping the bronze in 10.32.
Pilar McShine narrowly missed a medal in the women’s mile, clocking 4:37:56 to finished fourth behind Americans Lauren Centrowitz who won in 4:37:12 with Karly Hamric (4:37:35) and Elizabeth Maloy (4:37:48) second and third respectively.
Emmanuel Stewart was seventh in the College men’s discus (50.07m) and 14th in the javelin throw (57.77m). Jeanelle Ovid was joint 21st (1.64) in the College women’s high jump. At the Drakes Relays which also ended on Saturday at Des Moines, Iowa, Zwede Hewitt and his Baylor team-mates captured the men’s 4 x 400m in 3:05:01. Later Baylor claimed silver in the 4x100m in 39.19 seconds. On Friday, Hewitt was part of Baylor victorious 4x200m squad.