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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025
Charlton seventh in Diamond League Final By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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s she prepares for the World Athletics Championships next month, Bahamian national champion Devynne Charlton picked up a seventh-place finish in her specialty at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich, Switzerland. Running out of lane one, Charlton posted her season’s best of 12.52 seconds in the women’s 100 metre hurdles to earn a paycheck of $1,500 for her efforts at the Letzigrund Stadium. Jamaican national record holder Ackera Nugent won the title in a season’s best of 12.30 for $30,000, while Ditaji Kambundji set a Swiss national record of
DEVYNNE CHARLTON, right, and Masai Russell.
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12.40 for second for $12,000 and American Grace Stark was third in 12.44 for $7,000. The other three competitors to finish ahead of Charlton were Jamaica’s Danielle Williams in fourth in 12.44 ($4,000) with the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser fifth in 12.45 ($2,500) and American Tonea Marshall sixth in 12.49 ($2,000). Former world record holder Kendra Harrison of
the USA trailed Charlton for eighth in 12.72 (($1,000) and Selina von Jackowski completed the field in ninth in 13.24 ($500). Two of the key figures missing from the Diamond League Final was American record holder Masai Russell, a training partner of Charlton, who has the world’s leading time of 12.17. The other was world record holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria.
The Wanda Diamond League provided an expected showdown that could take place at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, from September 13-21. Charlton, 29, will be leading two other competitors in the women’s 100m hurdles for Team Bahamas. The national champion will be back with Charisma Taylor and Denisha Cartwright. The trio also
represented The Bahamas at last year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France, where Charlton had the best showing with sixth place. Charlton, the four-time world indoor record holder and two-time champion in the 60 metre hurdles, came into the event with her lifetime best of 12.44 seconds that she ran at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary,
to lower her Bahamian national record. The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics, comprising 15 of the meet’s prestigious events in track and field. Athletes competed for points at the 14 series meetings, although the disciplines were spread around, in a bid to qualify
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PLANS UNDERWAY TO Team Bahamas named ESTABLISH BAHAMAS for the World Athletics BOXING ACADEMY Championships in Tokyo By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
PLANS are underway for the establishment of the Bahamas Boxing Academy, which hopes to strengthen and revitalise the sport of boxing in the country. Endorsed by Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and the Government of The Bahamas, the construction of the project at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WHILE there’s a possibility that one or two more athletes could get an invite from World Athletics by its September 1 deadline, the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations has released the list of athletes named to the Bahamas team for the World Athletics Championships. The team, minus top quarter-milers Steven Gardiner and Shaunae Miller-Uibo, will feature a mixture of youth and experience in their make up of nine female and three male athletes at the championships scheduled for September 13-21 in Tokyo, Japan. Named to the team are the following athletes: Females Javonya Valcourt (400m), Anthonique Strachan (200m), Devynne Charlton (100m hurdles), Anthaya Charlton (100m and long jump), Camille Rutherford (100m), Charisma Taylor (100m hurdles), Denisha Cartwright (100 hurdles), Printassia Johnson (400m) and Rhema Otabor (javelin).
has already started with an early investment of $200,000 from Adam Arviv and $50,000 from Tedd Meyer. There is also a promised generous donation of boxing equipment and a ring from Thai boxing world champion Abdoulaye Fadiga, president of Rose In Atlas Ltd. Fadiga, who hails from France, is developing the
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WORLD Athletics Championships scheduled for September 13-21 in Tokyo, Japan. Males - Terrence Jones (100m), Donald Thomas (high jump) and Kaiwan Culmer (triple jump). Tito Moss, who will serve as the head coach, said there’s great expectations for Team Bahamas. “We have a good mixture of experience and new athletes who are now making their mark on the senior level,” said Moss, who will be assisted by
coaches Daren Lightbourne and Corrington Maycock. “We have three 100m hurdlers, who we expect will do very well. We hope to get the three of them through to the final. We also have Javonya Valcourt and Printassia Johnson in the women’s 400m and Anthaya and Camille Rutherford, who have both ran under 11-seconds
in the 100m and we also have veteran Anthonique Strachan and Rhema Otabor, who will compete in the javelin.” On the men’s side, Moss said they will be anchored by “Donald Thomas, who will be participating in his eighth consecutive World Championships in the men’s high jump, Kaiwan
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CROSS COUNTRY UB INVITATIONAL THE University of the Bahamas is scheduled to hold its 2025 Cross Country Invitational starting 7am on Saturday at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. The registration fee is $12 per athlete. For more information, persons can contact Ednal Rolle at 242-4246460 or ednal.rolle@ ub.edu.bs
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BASKETBALL NPACBO OFFICIAL REFEREES IF you are interested in becoming a basketball referee, the New Providence Association of Certified Basketball Officials is looking for you. The NPACBO is inviting all interested persons to sign up to become a
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