CONCORDE Athletics Club, born in 1989, produces some of TT’s best track and field athletes and their promising youngsters at the club are often selected on national junior teams.

GOVERNMENT provided $3.7m in funding for the athletes who represented this country at the recently concluded XXIV Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Salvador.

TEAM leader of the TT 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games squad Jehue Gordon is encouraging the athletes to use the games as a launching pad for their careers.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Janae De Gannes captured the gold medal and the record in the Long Jump on Saturday at the the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Associations (NACAC) Under-18 Championship held at the Estadio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica.

NATIONAL junior athletes preparing for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games geared up with some solid performances at the National Gas Company National Association of Athletics Administrations Open Championships at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain on Sunday.

Point Fortin New Jets’ Devin Augustine conquered an experienced field of sprinters to capture the national men’s 100m title on day one of the NGC/National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) Open Championships at Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, on Saturday.

THE 2023 National Gas Company/National Association of Athletics Administrations Open Championships will be held at the newly refurbished Hasely Crawford Stadium from 2 pm on Saturday and 3 pm on Sunday.