{"id":15986,"date":"2024-01-26T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2024-01-26T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:03:36","slug":"carifta-games-trials-2024-linden-athletes-aim-for-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/carifta-games-trials-2024-linden-athletes-aim-for-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"CARIFTA Games Trials 2024: Linden Athletes Aim for Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>As the first CARIFTA Games trials approach in February, athletes from Linden are intensifying their training efforts to meet the qualifying standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Training is underway at the Linden Synthetic Track and Purple-heart Street ground, where Coach Johnny Gravesande is working with eleven athletes, including five first-timers, aiming to achieve success at the CARIFTA trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently at an 80% completion rate in preparation, Coach Gravesande expresses optimism about reaching 100% by next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The athletes, competing in various categories, share their aspirations for the upcoming meet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Duquan Farrell, a 100\/200M and long jump athlete, is aiming for a time of 10:8 after narrowly missing the qualification in the previous attempt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kaidon Persaud, a 400\/800M athlete, has high expectations and hopes to make the CARIFTA team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ebo McNeil, a 300M athlete, expresses his determination to do his best and make his coach proud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kenetha Fraser, a 100\/200M and long jump athlete, shares her goal of achieving qualification timings in all three of her events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Donelle Fraser, an 800\/1500\/3000M athlete, sets expectations to meet the timings for all her events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Moses Pantlitz is also preparing ten athletes, including first-timers Akaie Blecher and Timothy Smith, for the CARIFTA trials at the Linden Synthetic Track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pantlitz emphasizes the added advantage of training on the synthetic track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first CARIFTA Games trials are scheduled for Sunday, February 4, at the National Track and Field Centre in Leonora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first CARIFTA Games trials approach in February, athletes from Linden are intensifying their training efforts to meet the qualifying standards. Training is underway at the Linden Synthetic Track&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15988,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions\/15988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}