TT athletes blanked at U-18 Worlds

TRINIDAD AND Tobago’s nine-member track and field team ended the third IAAF World Under-18 Track and Field Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada yesterday with one medal courtesy sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste, in the girls’ 100 metres.

In action yesterday, Cory Gibbs placed 11th out of 13 finalists in the boys’ high jump while the girls medley relay squad of Baptiste, Monique Cabral, Crystal Skeete and Abigail David, was disqualified in the final.Gibbs, the 2002 CARIFTA gold medallist, had a best attempt of two metres flat while four of his challengers sharing gold with 2.11m- Martin Gnther of Germany, Oleksandr Nartov of Ukraine, Hikaru Tsuchiya of Japan and Philipp Britner of Russia. In the relay final, the United States set a new world record of two minutes 3.87 seconds, with Jamaica 2:07.05 and Russia 2:07.52 trailing.