media_artricles :: 2015

Quow strikes gold in Italy

Thomas 5th in 110m hurdles; Ahye pulls up in women’s century

Trinidad and Tobago quarter-miler Renny Quow won gold in the Citta Di Padova athletics meeting in Italy, yesterday, while other T&T athletes Michelle-Lee Ahye and Mikel Thomas failed to climb the podium in the IAAF World Challenge in Berlin, Germany.

Running out of lane five, Quow clocked 45.99 seconds in the men's 400-metres event to take first place ahead of the French pair of Mamadou Eliman Hanne and Teddy Atine-Venel, second and third respectively. Hanne stopped the clock in 46.18 seconds for silver while Atine-Venel finished the race in 46.76 seconds.

Meanwhile, Ahye, who was fifth in the IAAF World Championships women's 100m final last month, finished last in Berlin yesterday in 17.81 seconds, hobbling over the line after pulling up with an injury.

USA's Candyce McGrone won the sprint in 11.11, beating Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast by one-tenth of a second and fellow American Barbara Pierre by two-tenths.

Meanwhile, Thomas was fifth in the 110 hurdles in Berlin, clocking 13.72 in the final, running out of lane four. Andrew Riley of Jamaica won the event in 13.40, ahead of Shane Brathwaite of Barbados, 13.42 and Hungarian Balazs Baji, who clocked 13.55.

And Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis won the men's 100 metres in 10.13, edging American Isiah Young by four-hundredths of a second. “I really needed this to boost my self-confidence after what happened in China,” said Collins, the 2003 world champion, who failed to emerge from his heat at the Worlds. “My body and soul needed to recover from it.”

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