TT athletes for Barbados meeting

BRIDGETOWN: Jamaica’s 2001 World Championship 200-metre silver-medallist Chris Williams headlines the list of invitees for the Barbados Track and Field Classic (BARITAC) at the National Stadium today. Williams will contest both the men’s 100 and 200 metres in the third staging of the meet, attracting this year, competitors from the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Other international names for the meet include Antiguan Pan Am Games sprint medallist Heather Samuel and in form Bahamian Chris Brown, who has already logged international wins in South Africa this season with three consecutive 400-metre victories during the Engen Series. Jamaicans Aneisha McLaughlin and Jermaine Gonzales, both medallists at the 2002 World Junior Championship in Kingston, are also entered. McLaughlin will face a 200-metre field that includes Samuel and Trinidad and Tobago’s CARIFTA Games 100-metre bronze medallist Wanda Hutson, and Gonzales meets Brown, American Milton Campbell, and TT’s former CARIFTA champion Simon Pierre, in the men’s 400 metres.