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Baptiste leads the wayVeteran Mark-Baird among record-breakersKwame Laurence :: Trinidad Express :: 29.06.2015Seven meet records were established on the weekend, at the NGC-Sagicor National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) Open Track and Field Championships. Kelly-Ann Baptiste led the way with a 10.84 seconds golden run in Saturday’s women’s 100 metres final. The clocking also equalled her own Trinidad and Tobago record. Also on Saturday, Renny Quow clocked 44.90 seconds to establish a new Championship record in the men’s 400m, and Guadeloupe’s Christelle Laurent returned a time of 19 minutes, 00.61 seconds in the women’s 5,000m. On Friday, Emmanuel Stewart produced a 52.49 metres effort to set a new Championship record in the men’s hammer throw, and Kenyan Kenneth Rotich topped the men’s 10,000m field in 30:48.25. On Sunday, Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott landed the spear 84.84 metres to win the men’s javelin and break his own Championship record. The other record-breaker at the three-day meet was Marsha Mark-Baird. On Saturday and Sunday, the 41-year-old athlete accumulated 4,793 points to strike gold in the women’s heptathlon, erasing Natoya Baird’s 4,679-point Championship record from the books in the process. Baptiste, Quow, Stewart, Walcott and Mark-Baird are all expected to represent T&T at the July 10-26 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. Baptiste, Quow and Walcott achieved qualifying standards on the weekend, while Stewart and Mark-Baird qualified earlier in the season. On March 21, in North Carolina, USA, Stewart threw 53.41m to better the 53.00m men’s discus standard. And on May 13 and 14, in Utah, USA, Mark-Baird totalled 5,105 points in the women’s heptathlon, more than 200 points better than the 4,900 Pan Am standard in the seven-discipline event. SUNDAY'S FINALS Men's 200m (wind: +1.7)
Women's 200m (wind: +2.2)
Men's 200m “B” race (wind: +1.9)
Women's 200m “B” race (wind: +1.8)
Men's 800m
Women's 800m
Men's 5000m
Men's 400m hurdles
Women's 400m hurdles
Men's high jump
Men's pole vault
Women's long jump
Men's triple jump
Women's shot put
Men's discus
Men's javelin
Men's decathlon
Women's heptathlon
Men's 4x100m
Men's 4x400m
Men's 100m Masters (wind: +1.8)
Women's 100m Masters (wind: +1.9)
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