Terrelonge, Douglas set for Champs half-lap classic

FASTEN YOUR seat belts!

Fans attending the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships are in store for a special performance in the Girls’ 200 metres with first-year Class 2 athletes Theianna-Lee Terrelonge of Edwin Allen and Shanoya Douglas of Muschette High shaping up to engage in a gigantic clash.

At the recent Carifta Trials at the National Stadium, Douglas threw down the gauntlet with a sensational 22.85 seconds to win the under-20 half-lap event. The race was run in a slightly windy positive 2.1 metres per second, just one-tenth over the legal limit. However, the time still suggests that young Douglas is in sub-23-second form.

Terrelonge was also in superb form at the Trials, winning the under-20 100 metres in a personal best 11.25 seconds, and this was even after an extremely slow start. Douglas was third. Terrelonge, earlier this year, clocked 23.73 to win the 200 metres at the JAAA Puma Fuller-Anderson meet at G.C. Foster College.

Sabrina Dockery, out of Lacovia High, defeated Douglas at the Western Athletics Championships over the 200 metres when she clocked 22.92 seconds, running with a 3.00 metres-per-second wind.

However, at the Carifta Trials, Douglas showed tremendous form, taking care of business early and winning going away. Dockery had to settle for second in 23.31.

The showdown between Douglas and Terrelonge will be worth miles going to see.

Even though Terrelonge has only competed once over the 200 metres this season, her form in the 100 metres suggests a sub-23-second clocking is also in her locker.

Terrelonge’s predecessor, Kevona Davis, set the Class 2 100-metre record at Champs at a fast 11.18 seconds in 2018. Terrelonge could be taking aim at that mark, or at the very least, using it as inspiration.

In that fateful 2018 season, Davis also set the Class 2 200-metre mark, storming to 22.72.

That record could be in danger from two remarkable young women.