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Seven Carifta Records Set In Bermuda
Seven new Carifta records were set during the 2012 Carifta Games in Bermuda, the International Association of Athletics Federation [IAAF] said. “Tynell Gumbs of British Virgin Islands and Chelsea James of Trinidad & Tobago set automatic Games records, using the 500g Javelin and 3kg Shot for the first time at CARIFTA in the under-17 girls... Read more of this article
Bean & Aitken Set New Bermuda Records
Two new Bermuda records have been set in recent days, with Taylor-Ashley Bean shattering the Bermuda Junior Female National 1500m record in Virginia, while Kiera Aitken set a new Bermuda Women’s 50-Meter Backstroke record in Spain. Eighteen-year-old college freshman Taylor-Ashley Bean is a freshman at Virginia State University, and a member of... Read more of this article
Dage Minors Sets Three New Records
Bermuda junior runner Dage Minors experienced a day to remember when took part in setting three new St. Johnsbury Academy School Records in Boston recently. The St. Johnsbury Academy’s 4×800 relay team of James Fitzhugh, Brandon Legendre, Ben Bunnell and Minors combined to break the Vermont State Record at the New England Indoor Track Championships... Read more of this article
BASA Confirms New Swimming Records
The Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association announced New Course Records that have been set recently. During the BASA Qualifying Meet on February 25th, Ashley Irby set a new Short Course Record in the Female 9-10 Year Old 50m Butterfly clocking a time of 35.41 breaking the previous record of 35.94 which was set on July 16, 2005 by Ashley Yearwood. Jesse... Read more of this article
Four Overseas Wins For Local Athletes
Bermudian track and field athletes put on some big performances this past weekend [Feb.25/26] to claim four wins — and set one new record — at U.S. university conference championships held in Boston, Kentucky and Washington. Arantxa King competed at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships [MPSF] in Washington, winning the long... Read more of this article
Yearwood Helps Set A New Record
Bermudian Ashley Yearwood and her Baylor School 4x200m Freestyle Relay teammates broke their State and National Independent High School record from last year by 1 ½ seconds. Yearwood’s record setting swim is the third record to be broken by local athletes this weekend, following after Tyrone Smith’s record breaking leap in Estonia, and... Read more of this article
Video: Evans Sets New School Record
Bermuda’s Aaron Evans topped his own school record in the 800-meter run at the Husky Invitational in Seattle yesterday [Feb.11]. Evans competed in the Invite portion of the 800 and finished second overall by just a hundredth of a second after clocking a 1:47.88. His previous school record time of 1:48.07 was recorded at last year’s Husky... Read more of this article
Smith Sets New Record In Estonia
Bermuda’s Tyrone Smith finished second at the 2nd Big Kuldliiga Indoor Series Track Meet in Estonia, setting a new Bermuda record in the process. Competing in his third Long Jump Indoor event in less than a week, Smith leaped to a Bermudian Indoor Record of 7.82m at the European event. He leaped 7.60m on his first attempt, he then reached 7.66m... Read more of this article
Harvey & Washington Set New Records
The Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association announced that the following New Short Course Records were set during the Winter Age Groups. Harbour Swimming Club member Emma Harvey and Sharks Swimming Club’s Jessie Washington both set new records. Harvey set a new Female 9-10 years – 100m Backstroke Record with a time of 1:21.92, breaking the previous... Read more of this article
Fletcher & Blackburn Break Records
Bermudian swimmers Julian Fletcher, Roy-Allan Burch and Lisa Blackburn are competing as guests at the USA Winter National Swim Championships in Atlanta. 40-year-old Lisa Blackburn finished the 100m breaststroke in a time of 1:13.21, and was able to lower her own national record set at this summer’s CCCAN Championships by 2 hundredths of a second. Fletcher... Read more of this article
New Records Set At Sharks Swim Meet
The Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association have confirmed the following New Short Course Records were set at the Sharks Sprint Meet on October 08th, 2011. Jessica Bruton, Holly Bruton, Brynn Telenko and Logan Watson-Brown are the Female 8 and under – 4 x 50m Medley Relay Record Holders after clocking 3:22.61, the previous record of 3:45.97 was set on... Read more of this article
Swimming: BASA Confirm New Record Holders
The Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association has confirmed several Short and Long Course records set recently. Short Course Records At the Junior National Championships, Jack Thorpe, Finn Moseley, Matthew Nagel and Jack Harvey set a new Male 8 and Under – 4 x 25m Freestyle Relay Record clocking 1:30.20 breaking the old record of 1:31.84 that was set... Read more of this article
Cricket: Glenn Blakeney Jr Breaks County Record
Fans at the Sea Breeze Oval on Saturday [Aug.13] were treated to a batting display by Glenn Blakeney Jr, as he and Bailey’s Bay rewrote the Eastern County Record Books. Mr Blakeney went on to make a record 218 runs, which broke the Eastern County individual scoring record crossing Noel Gibbons’ 183 against Flatt’s Victoria in 1983. Meanwhile... Read more of this article
Burch Shatters Record, Qualifies For Olympics
The Cup Match cricket on Friday wasn’t the only great sporting performance by local athletes that day – as halfway across the world in China, Bermudian swimmer Roy-Allen Burch shattered the Bermuda record in the 50 metre freestyle and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics. Mr Burch was joined by Julian Fletcher and Kiera Aitken in represented... Read more of this article
Lisa Blackburn Does It Again: Medal #3
Lisa Blackburn continues to turn up the heat at the 2011 Central American & Caribbean Swimming Championships [CCCAN] in Puerto Rico, collecting her third medal, with all three won in record setting style. Her latest swim not only broke the Bermuda record – it shattered a six-year-old Central American & Caribbean record previously held... Read more of this article
Roy-Allan Burch Sets New Backstroke Record
The final day of the Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association National Championships this past weekend [June 11/12] saw Roy-Allan Burch set a new record during the men’s open 50 short course meter backstroke preliminaries when he finished in a time of 27.28. Dylan Wooley Berry finished second with a time of 29.38 and Conor Mullen finished third clocking... Read more of this article
