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Athletics-D’Souza clocks personal best 10.9 seconds in 100m |19 May 2005

Athletics-D’Souza clocks personal best 10.9 seconds in 100m

D’Souza powers to the finish line

Since teaming up with Mervyn Loizeau, Marcus Labrosse and Nelson Renaud to win last year’s Commission de la Jeunesse et des Sports de l’Océan indien (CJSOI) 4 x 100 metres relay gold medal in a Seychelles youth record time of 42.86 seconds, D’Souza has been a regular at athletics meets at Stad Linite.

Last Saturday at the Roche Caïman venue, D’Souza dipped below 11 seconds for the first time in his career with a 10.9 clocking in the 100 metres of the World Athletics Day competition.

D’Souza, whose previous fastest time was 11.0 seconds, achieved this performance in the absence of Mervyn Loizeau whose personal bests are 10.9 (manual timing) and 10.94 (electronic timing). Loizeau was competing in last Sunday’s Skyline Travel and Tours International Meet in Mauritius.

Second to D’Souza was Anthony Chow (11.4 seconds) and third Kenny Solin (11.7 seconds).

Other notable performances came in the men’s 400 metres and high jump and in the ladies’ 100 and 200 metres.

Winner of the CJSOI 400m gold medal with a timing of 50.27 seconds, Nelson Renaud was too strong for his opponents in the absence of Evans Marie and Travis Hardy (silver medalist in the regional event of the Skyline Travel and Tours International Meet).

His time was 50.8 seconds, four hundredths of a second slower than his manual personal best of 50.4 seconds.

Colin Francourt dived to hit the tape together with Wallace Brutus and they were both credited with the same time of 53.3 seconds.

With record holder Eugène Ernesta (bronze medalist with a height of 2m) and Jude Sidonie (silver medalist with a height of 2.05m) participating in the Skyline Travel and Tours International Meet, Praslinois William Woodcock cleared the bar at a height of 2.05m and then missed all his three attempts at 2.09m in a bid to improve on his personal best of 2.08m.

With no one to push her to run faster, female youth (under 18) category sprinter Sabrina Laurence again dominated the sprints with times of 12.5 seconds and 26.2 seconds in the 100m and 200m.

All participants received a certificate at the end of the two-day competition.

The participants with their certificates

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