OCS athlete becomes 8th Carifta qualifier
Another athlete has qualified for the Carifta Games, bringing Antigua and Barbuda’s tally thus far to eight.
Jevon Simon of the Ottos Comprehensive School and Edus Sports/Panthers Track Club dipped under the 49.80 Boys U17 400m Carifta standard set on Saturday night.
The young quarter miler fresh off his 100m silver medal on Friday night, returned a day later at the Interschools Athletics Championships to register a time of 49.63sec to secure qualification.
This will be Simon’s first showing at the Carifta Games scheduled for April 19-21 in Trinidad and Tobago.
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