Natricia Hooper leaped to a new Personal Best (PB) mark in the Triple Jump at the XXI Commonwealth Games in Australia. Natricia who had a previous PB of 13.33m managed to take it to 13.36m but fell short of medal contention by finishing eight on Tuesday. The event was won by Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams with a distance of 14.46m.
Likewise, sister Natrena Hooper who is on a scholarship at the University of West Indies in Jamaica, improved her Season Best (SB) from 12.57m to 12.62m. She will now turn attention to the High Jump final which occurs on Saturday.
More so, Winston George was not able to replicate his performance of the 2014 Games in Glasgow where qualified for the 200m semi-finals but finished fifth with a time of 20.88s.
Natrica Hooper leaped to new Personal Best of 13.36m but fell short of medal contention
On Tuesday he stumbled to a time of 21.19s to place fourth in Heat 7 while running out of Lane 3; the time was awfully different from his SB of 20.41s.
Emanuel Archibald also found it difficult to leap his way into the next round of the Long Jump by finishing ninth with a best leap of 7.24m. He headed into the event with distances of 7.71m; his group was won by the host’s Henry Frayne with a leap of 8.34m.
Badminton star Narayan Ramdhani demolished Saint Helena’s Vernon Smeed in the Round of 64 of the Men’s singles
Olympian Troy Doris takes to the pit on Thursday for his Triple Jump qualifier while National Javelin record holder Leslain Baird has his qualification on Friday.
Meanwhile, Badminton star Narayan Ramdhani demolished Saint Helena’s Vernon Smeed in the Round of 64 of the Men’s singles. The Canada-based player won 2-0 with games going 21-6 and 21-8 in his favour. Today he plays in the round-of-32 against Canada’s Jason Ho-Sue.
Lennox Braithwaite (right) and Ransford Goodluck getting ready for the 900 yards shoot on Tuesday in Australia
In Table Tennis national champion Christopher Franklin won in four straight sets in the Men’s Singles group 18 against Romano Spencer, with games going 11-5, 11-4, 11-2 & 11-2. However, the tables turned against him when he played Mauritius’ Brian Chan Yook Fo as the game went 5-11, 11-7, 8-11, 6-11 & 4-11.
Today he plays in the round-of-32 doubles with Shemar Britton against India’s Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty while in the mixed doubles he partners with Trenace Lowe to battle the host’s Trent Carter and Tracy Feng.
Britton also won his first match in Group 14, defeating Tanzania’s Masoud Mtalaso 11-4, 11-2, 11-4 & 11-2 but suffered a narrow loss to Canada’s Antonie Bernadet as the sets stretched to seven. The thrilling match went 11-8, 11-5, 6-11, 3-11, 9-11, 15-13 & 3-11. His mixed doubles partner is Pricilla Greaves with whom he plays Vanuatu’s Ham Lulu and Priscilla Tommy.
Shemar Britton
Greaves lost both of her Group 4 single matches, first to Sanjana Ramasawmy of Mauritius, 1-11, 6-11, 11-7, 7-11 & 11-13 then to Canada’s Alice Cote in four straight sets. Lowe also had a mixed bag winning 4-1 against Fiji’s Xuan Li but lost to Malaysia’s Karen Lyne 1-4. The rest of squad whch includes Nigel Bryan, Natalie Cummings and Joel Alleyne faced a similar faith in their singles.
More so, on a very challenging day which brought with it switching winds on multiple occasions during the 900 and 1000 yards shoot, the Guyanese Pair of Lennox Braithwaite and Ransford Goodluck managed to hold their own and hold on to the 11th position when the Fullbore Championships – Queen’s Prize Pairs Finals concluded at the Belmont Full Bore Range.
Such was the challenge on the final day that neither of the shooters which include the best marksmen in the world was able to secure a possible; just two persons shot a 74.
Guyana’s final total after the final two ranges were shot was 563:48 which was also the best Caribbean score, the Guyanese pair finishing ahead just ahead of the Falkland Islands which ended on 547:34 for 12th.
Jamaica was 13th (530:18) followed by Barbados 524:25), Antigua and Barbuda 524:23 and Trinidad and Tobago 500:20 in 16th place.
The gold medal was taken by the English pair of Parag Patel and David Luckman (584:61) with silver going to Chris Watson and Gareth Morris of Wales (582:58) and bronze to Scotland’s Alexander Walter and Ian Shaw (582:49).
South Africa placed 4th (581:53), New Zealand 5th (581:50), Australia 6th (580:54), Northern Ireland 7th (579:49), Canada 8th (579:47), Guernsey 9th (575:45), Jersey 10th (572:36).
The Individual Championships will shoot off today with competition at the 300, 500 and 600 yards ranges, the same ranges would be repeated tomorrow before the marksmen engage in a practice session on Friday at the 900 and 1000 yards ranges before the final day of the Individual competition on Saturday at the same 900 and 1000 yards.
