TT’s chances of earning a track and field 100-metre medal at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games will lie on the shoulders of Michelle-Lee Ahye and five-time Olympian Kelly-Ann Baptiste. Both will line up in round one of the women’s 100-metre event on Thursday night (TT time).
For the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, TT will not have a representative in the men’s 100m dash.
Heat one in round one of the women’s 100m event will begin at 11.15 pm and the seventh and final heat will run off at 12.03 am, on Friday. It is uncertain what heat Ahye and Baptiste will feature in. The TT athletes got a bye and are not required to run in the preliminaries starting at 8 pm Thursday.
Ahye, who won gold in the women’s 100m event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, qualified just weeks before the Olympic qualification deadline of June 29.
Ahye clocked 10.96 seconds at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Games New Life Invitational in Florida on June 5, to dip under the Olympic qualification standard of 11.15.
