Antigua and Barbuda’s Geolyna Dowdye captured gold in the women’s 200 metres at the OECS Championships on Saturday, setting a new championship record in the process.
Dowdye crossed the finish line in 23.28 seconds to claim the title, eclipsing the previous championships record of 23.30 seconds.
The former mark had stood since July 2, 2017, when Tahesia Harrigan-Scott of the British Virgin Islands established it.
Dowdye’s performance secured Antigua and Barbuda another gold medal at the championships while etching her name into the record books with the fastest women’s 200m ever run at the OECS Championships.
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Congratulation to my girl Geolyna on breaking the 200m record, keep going Geolyna and let’s duplicate it in the 100m. Point to be made, presently Ajaeda Hodge out of the British Virgin Islands who competed alongside Geolyna in the Carifta games just a few years back, is now clocking the same numbers as the Melissa, the Shacarri, the Sherika and the Julien Alfreds, who are recognized as the world’s top females athletes, now that’s some real progress.
Something definitely not working with our athletes when it comes to getting on the Big stage and if they do, showing improvement and maintaining progress is madly lacking. We presently have all these international track and field competition going on, especially my favorite, the Diamond league where top athletes show who’s really the best, improve themselves financially, plus recognized where they stands internationally, as a matter of fact if you’re not showing numbers here, sending an athlete to compete in any Olympics and World Championship will be just a free sightseeing trip for these athletes. Sad to say I can never find an Antiguan athlete competing in this Diamond league, a league that Tim Collins lives on, as a matter of fact he still holds the record as the eldest competitive Diamond league athlete.