KINGSTON, Ja­maica– Ja­maica’s dou­ble Carif­ta gold medal­list Shanoya Dou­glas set the track ablaze in the 200 me­tres over the week­end on her way to clock­ing the fastest women’s Un­der-18 time in the world this year.

Com­pet­ing on Sun­day’s third and fi­nal day of the Ja­maica Carif­ta tri­als, Dou­glas crossed the fin­ish line in a world-lead­ing U-18 time of 22.58 sec­onds to cap­ture the sprint dou­ble at the event.

The 18-year-old, who al­so sped to an im­pres­sive per­son­al best of 11.06 in the 100m on Fri­day, low­ered her per­son­al best in the 200m, while reg­is­ter­ing the fourth fastest time amongst se­niors in the world.

She fin­ished well clear of Na­trece East of Wolmer’s Girls, who fin­ished sec­ond in 23.48 sec­onds to book her spot at next month’s Carif­ta Games, while Kim­ber­ly Wright of Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion was third in 24.24.

Dou­glas won both the U-20 girls’ 100m and the 200m at last year’s Carif­ta Games, which were held in Trinidad and To­ba­go and al­so cap­tured bronze in the 200m at the 2024 World Ath­let­ics U-20 Cham­pi­onships.

It con­tin­ues her im­pres­sive start to the year, which has al­ready seen Dou­glas break the Ja­maican na­tion­al ju­nior in­door record in the 300m (36.98 sec­onds), while al­so set­ting a per­son­al best of 52.60 sec­onds in the 400m.

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