Marc Burns News

MILER Renny Quow finished 2009 as the highest ranked TT athlete, male or female, in the world.

Trinidad and Tobago's 2009 World Championship medallists Josanne Lucas and Renny Quow returned to T&T on Monday.

World champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton streaked to her seventh consecutive victory and led a quartet of English-speaking Caribbean winners at the Pre-Championship Daegu track and field international meeting yesterday.

LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY From VillaFour on 606: "From what's being said in the interviews, it sounds like the athletes are either going on holiday with a smile on their face or have a lot of thinking to do in the next few weeks about where they go from here.

Former Willamette University runner Nick Symmonds took first place Monday in the men's 800 meters at the British Grand Prix international track and field meet.

Tyson Gay won his first race since a second-place finish at the world championships, then said he would be having surgery at the end of the season to cure a lingering groin injury.

Darrel Brown, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson received their 4x100-metre silver medals, and then savoured the occasion as the red, white and black was raised alongside the Jamaica flag and the Union Jack.

The presence of Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has guaranteed that the fifth of the six-leg Golden League on Friday will be a sell-out after his treble world gold medal haul.

Gary Hunt, the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs was naturally elated when responding to reporters on Saturday, in the wake of the third medal-winning performance by national athletes in the just-concluded World Athletics championships.

Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird.

He clocked 10.12 to finish third. Clydeen Mc Donald BEIJING Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson will challenge reigning World Champion Tyson Gay of the USA and former world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica for a place in the final of the mena s 100 metres at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics takes place in Berlin, Germany, ...

Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird.

Trinidad and Tobago sprinters Richard Thompson and Marc Burns will draw inspiration from the phenomenal Olympic achievements of African American legend Jesse Owens when they do battle in the semi-final round of the World Championship men's 100 metres event, at the Olympic Stadium, here in Berlin, Germany, today.

Team manager Dexter Voisin, left, and NAAA Vice-President Dr Ian Hypolite along with other members of the T&T team with the Mayor of Erfurt, Andreas Bausewein at the Erfurt Town Hall.

Track and field will once more be the major beneficiary of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs Elite Athlete Assistance Programme, which will shell out just over $2.4 million towards athletes' training and preparations.

Track and field will once more be the major beneficiary of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs Elite Athlete Assistance Programme, which will shell out just over $2.4 million towards athletes' training and preparations.

DOUBLE Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson is among 19 TT athletes selected by the National Association of Athletic Administration to compete at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany from August 15 to 23.

Trinidad and Tobago will head to the Central American and Caribbean Games without some of their top athletes, including premier sprint duo, Richard "Torpedo" Thompson and Kelly Ann Baptiste.

The H1N1 Virus has taken the blame for the cancellation of the inaugural Caribbean Games and its ensuing implications, but many stakeholders and critics remain unsatisfied as to the explanation for Trinidad and Tobago's withdrawal as hosts.

Among the star athletes expected to be on show at the three-day meet are double Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson; members of the silver-medal 4x100-metre sprint relay team, including Thompson, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China ; shot-putter Cleopatra Borel-Brown; sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste, quarter-miler Renny Quow and multiple ...