AHYE 6TH IN 200M

Ahye, who finished sixth in the women’s 100-metre final in 10.92 seconds on Saturday, ended sixth in the women’s 200m final last night. Ahye got off to a solid start and was in contention for a medal at the 120m mark but she could hold on to a medal position finishing sixth in 22.34 behind some familiar faces.

Women’s 100m gold medal winner Elaine Thompson of Jamaica completed the sprint double winning the 200m event in 21.78. Claiming silver was Dafne Schippers of Netherlands in 21.88 and Tori Bowie won another sprint medal grabbing bronze in 22.15. Bowie snatched silver in the women’s 100m final.

Also finishing ahead of Ahye was Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast who was fourth in 22.21 and Dina Asher of Great Britain who was fifth in 22.31.

In an interview with Newsday following the race Ahye stated, “I felt pretty good for the race, I went out there and ran my race, executed well, I just was not strong enough like those girls. I am proud of myself for making the final in the 200 and repping TT.” Ahye was focusing more on the 100m event and she admitted she needs to do more work in the 200m event. “Everything was fine I am just not as strong as those other girls because I was not really training for the 200 I was more focusing on the 100 so I have a lot to work on for next year.” Ahye will represent TT in the relay today and the team will be going with their strongest team.

“We decided to go with the A side for the first round because we got a bad lane so we will run the A side just to be safe.” She urged TT to keep supporting the athletes saying, “Keep supporting us no matter the outcome, win, lose or draw we need the support badly.” Defending men’s javelin gold medallist Keshorn Walcott only needed one throw to advance to the final of the event. In his first throw Walcott made the qualification standard of 83.00 recording a throw of 88.68 metres competing in group B.

Also making the qualification standard up to press time in group B were Johannes Vetter of Germany and Ryohei Arai of Japan. Vetter threw the spear 85.96m and Arai booked a place at in Saturday’s 7.55pm final with a distance of 84.16m.

Sealing places in the final included Petr Frydrych of Czech Republic (83.60m) and Julius Yego of Kenya (83.55m). At the 2012 London Olympics Walcott won gold with a top throw of 84.58m.

Among those qualifying for the final from group A up to press time were Julian Weber of Germany (84.46m), Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic (83.27m), Dmytro Kosynskyy of Ukraine (83.23m) and Thomas Rohler of Germany (83.01m).