The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

DEVYNNE Charlton, preparing for the World Athletics’ Indoor Championships next month, pulled off a big victory yesterday at the Orlen Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, while LaQuan Nairn erased his own Bahamas national record at a meet in Arkansas over the weekend.

Competing on the World Athletics Indoor Tour, Charlton clocked a season’s best of 7.90 seconds to take the women’s 60 metres hurdles title in a race she dominated from start to finish. Finland’s Reeta Hurske trailed in second place in 7.96.

In securing the win, Charlton fell shy of her Bahamian national indoor record of 7.89 that she posted at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, on March 3, 2018.

Charlton, coming off her sixth place finish at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in August, will be returning to the World Indoor Championships, scheduled for March 18-20 in Belgrade, Serbia. She surpassed the qualifying standard of 8.16.

Nairn, who is hoping to also qualify for his first World Indoor Championships, soared 26-feet, 10-inches or 8.18 metres at the Arkansas qualifier in Fayetteville, Arkansas for a new Bahamian and meet record.

His previous national record was 26-9 3/4 (8.16m) that he set at the Tyson Invitational on February 7, 2021, and the meet was 25-9 1/2 (7.86m) that was jointly held by Keniel Grant of Texas Tech and Travonn White of Arkansas.

Nairn, however, fell shy of the World Indoor qualifying standard of 26-11 ¾ (8.22m). He was followed by Rayvon Allen, a senior at Oklahoma, with 25-10 (7.87m) at the meet in Arkansas.