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Thursday, July 24, 2025

McKnight fifth in Hungary meet

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Ryan Bachoo
2206 days ago
20190709
Sparkle McKnight

Sparkle McKnight

Keith Clement

T&T sprint­er Sparkle McK­night had a top-five fin­ish at the Gyu­lai István Memo­r­i­al in Hun­gary yes­ter­day.

Com­pet­ing in the Women’s 400 me­tres hur­dles event, McK­night fin­ished fifth in a time of 56.90 sec­onds.

Amer­i­can Ash­ley Spencer won the race in a time of 55.36 sec­onds while Janieve Rus­sell of Ja­maica won sil­ver .29 sec­onds be­hind Spencer.

Bahrain’s Am­i­nat Ja­mal ran away with bronze in clock­ing a sea­son-best time of 56.21 sec­onds.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports af­ter the race, McK­night said she felt she got a dif­fi­cult lane and it was tough for her to medal as a re­sult.

“It was my first time com­pet­ing from lane one. I ran to a dif­fer­ent strat­e­gy mean­ing I got out to stay with the rest of the field and I didn’t have much to fin­ish the last hun­dred (me­tres) of the race cause I had to work so hard on the first part,” McK­night said.

But McK­night wasn’t too hard on her­self since she has round­ing in­to top form for the World Cham­pi­onships lat­er in the year in Qatar (Sep­tem­ber 28-Oc­to­ber 6) as her main goal.

“All in all, brick by brick, I’m build­ing and I be­lieve in my­self and my pro­gramme, so it’s now on­to the next race. I have a cou­ple of meets in Eu­rope still and then se­nior tri­als at the end of Ju­ly, af­ter which I’ll go to the Pan Am Games.”

She’s still try­ing to achieve the qual­i­fy­ing mark for the World Cham­pi­onships but is con­fi­dent she will be able to at­tain this with hard work.


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