Handal Roban, as expected, copped gold in the Under-23 men\u2019s 800m at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-18\/ Under-23 championships last Sunday, July 23, in San Jose, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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His NACAC gold, won in a time of 1:47.43, followed his gold gained over the same distance at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Salvador earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Second was Sean Dolan of the USA, in 1:47.54 and Dominican -Denrick Luke was third in 1:47. 62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Roban\u2019s gold was the lone medal pouched by St Vincent and the Grenadines, who was represented by five other athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Keo Davis and AJ Delpesche finished sixth in the Under-18 male, 100 and 400m respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davis\u2019 time in the final was 10.85 seconds, while Delpesche\u2019s time in the one lap event was 51.03s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Amal Glasgow placed sixth in the Under-23 male 400m, with a 47.01 clocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also placing sixth was national debutant- Earl Simmonds in the Male Under-23 100m. Simmonds after posting a wind assisted 10.16 seconds in the semifinals, stopped the clock at 10.35s in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, Uroy Ryan was fourth in the Under-23 men\u2019s Long Jump, with a leap of 7.80m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St Vincent and the Grenadines\u2019 next outing is the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Handal Roban, as expected, copped gold in the Under-23 men\u2019s 800m at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-18\/ Under-23 championships last Sunday, July 23, in San Jose, Costa Rica. His NACAC gold, won in a time of 1:47.43, followed his gold gained over the same distance at the Central American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n