Athletics: Special Events One competition-It’s Khan’s show |09 February 2010
A member of the newly formed Shooting Star club and coached by former hurdler Giovanni Fanny, Khan said she was “shocked” to learn that the women’s senior 60m record is now hers.
“Getting a Seychelles record in my first race of the season will surely serve as a motivation for the rest of the year,” she told Sports Nation.
“My aim now is to continue working harder in training to improve my 100m personal best of 12.51 seconds. As for the eighth Indian Ocean Island Games next year, it won’t be easy, but I feel I can do something good if I get down to some serious training and maintain my focus,” she added.
The men’s 60m race was won by Aga Sonix’s Danny D’Souza, but not after some drama in the second heat.
After Shooting Star’s Mervin Loizeau was disqualified for a first false start, the remaining four sprinters settled into the blocks but Yannick Vidot was quicker than starter Paul Nioze’s gun. As the competitors were not recalled, probably because the officials did not spot the infringement, D’Souza found himself trailing by almost two metres, but he used a burst of speed in the final 20 metres to cross the finish line first in 6.5 seconds to once again equal the hand-timing senior record he shares with Alex Faure (March 23, 1996 and Danny Benoit (February 21, 1998).
The first time he ran 6.5 seconds was on February 16, 2008, but the 22-year-old is the sole holder of the 60m electronic record of 6.93 seconds, which he got on Valentine’s Day (February 14) last year.
His time then was five-hundredths of a second faster than the previous best of 6.98 seconds clocked by Nelson Lucas on March 3, 2000.
Running in the first heat, Gelick Joseph of the Arsu club equalled the male colt (under-14) record of 7.5 seconds, which Marius Vinda has been holding since February 9, 2008.
Sprinters were not the only ones in the limelight on Saturday, as young female long distance runner Stephanie Underwood of the East Coast club established a hand-timing girls (under-16) category mile record of 6 minutes 22.9 seconds.
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The complete results
60m female
1st Alice Khan – senior, Shooting Star 7.4 seconds (new national record)
2nd Joanne Low-Toy – junior, Fast Track 7.6 seconds
3rd Matty Molta – youth, Top Racers 8.1 seconds
4th Naireen Rose – youth, Shooting Star 8.5 seconds
5th Corina Lesperance – girl, Arsu 8.7 seconds
6th Hildrey Sinon – youth, Top Racers 8.9 seconds
6th Christine Pillay – girl, shooting Star 8.9 seconds
8th Tara Jean – youth, Shooting Star 9.1 seconds
8th Sheryl Lepathy – girl, Arsu 9.1 seconds
10th Angel Lafleur – youth, Aga Sonix 9.8 seconds
11th Erica Gamatis – colt, Arsu 10.2 seconds
60m male
1st Danny D’Souza – senior, Aga Sonix 6.5 seconds
2nd Yannick Vidot – junior, Shooting Star 6.7 seconds
3d Travis Cadeau – youth, Spartan 7.1 seconds
4th Nicholas Etienne – senior, Shooting Star 7.2 seconds
5th Ted Larue – youth, Fast Track 7.3 seconds
6th Gelick Joseph – colt, Arsu 7.5 seconds
6th Dyland Nalletamby – youth, Shooting Star 7.5 seconds
7th Jean-Philip Vidot – boy, Shooting Star 7.7 seconds
8th Samuel Maria – youth, Top Racers 8.5 seconds
9th Jean-Michel Vidot – boy, Shooting Star 9.1 seconds
300m male
1st Neddy Marie – senior, Fast Track 35.3 seconds
2nd Leeroy Henriette – senior, Shooting Star 35.9 seconds
3rdt Aubrey Louise – senior, Aga Sonix 39.0 seconds
4th Alvin Kilindo – youth, Arsu 40.4 seconds
5th Marcus Laurence – youth, Arsu 42.3 seconds
6th Kevin Harryba – boy, Arsu 42.4 seconds
300m female
1st Shirley Annette – youth, Arsu 47.6 seconds
2nd Vanessa Léon – youth, Shooting Star 49.8 seconds
3rd Estelle Lepathy – girl, Arsu 50.1 seconds
One mile female
1st Stephanie Underwood – girl, East Coast 6:22.9
2nd Natifa Philoé – youth, Arsu 6:23.8
3rd Isabelle Savy – youth, Arsu 6:28.5
4th Lisa Durand – colt, East Coast 6:41.8
One mile male
1st Keddy Moustache – youth, Top Racers 5:07.8
2nd Joshua Gabriel – junior, East Coast 5:08.7
3rd Randy Gappy – junior, East Coast 5:13.9
4th Vincent Germain – youth, Aga Sonix 5:14.2
5th Andrew Anacoura – youth, East Coast 5:23.8
6th Ryan Benstrong – youth, Top Racers 5:24.9
7th Samuel Moustache – boy, Top Racers 5:34.5
8th Daniel Marcel – boy, Arsu 5:43.6
9th Stephan Souris – youth, Arsu 6:20.8
Long jump male
1st Jude Sidonie – senior, Aga Sonix 6.36m
2nd Vincent Germain – youth, Aga Sonix 2.89m
Long jump female
1st Melina Crispin – youth, Top Racers 4.40m
2nd Hanna Monthy – girl, Arsu 4.19m
3rd Estelle Lepathy – girl, Arsu 3.54m
Shot put female
1st Hildrey Sinon – youth, Top Racers 7.60m
Shot put male
1st Dominic Benoit – boy, Top Racers 9.20m
High jump female
1st Kelsia Dine – girl, Arsu 1.30m
High jump male
1st Leeroy Gamatis – youth, Arsu 1.60m
2nd Stephan Souris – boy, Arsu 1.50m
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