T&T mul­ti-sport ath­lete Tyra Git­tens grabbed the top spot in the women's high jump event at the Texas vs Texas A&M Dual track meet in the Unit­ed States on Sat­ur­day.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas A&M ju­nior leapt 1.90 me­tres to com­fort­ably beat Texas’ Mar­lene Guer­rero, who was a far-off sec­ond with 1.73 and her team­mate Trin­i­ty Tom­lin­son placed third with the same height.

Git­tens al­so rep­re­sent­ed Texas A&M in three oth­er events in­clud­ing the 100m hur­dles, the shot put and the long jump.

The NCAA cham­pi­on and na­tion­al hep­tathlon record-hold­er won heat one of two in the 110m hur­dles event, clock­ing 13.63 sec­onds but placed sixth over­all. She fin­ished fifth in the shot put with her best throw, reach­ing 12.07m but un­for­tu­nate­ly she record­ed no marks in the long jump event.

At Sat­ur­day’s USA Track and Field (US­ATF) Sprint Sum­mit in Prairie View, Texas, T&T had three ath­letes in ac­tion.

In the men's 400m, Asa Gue­vara of Em­pire Ath­let­ics, run­ning in lane three in heat two of two, crossed fifth in a time of 47.27 and placed eighth over­all while com­pa­tri­ot De­on Lendore of Ath­let­ics TX, who was reg­is­tered to face the starter in the event, but did not com­pete.

Win­ning the one-lap event was Kenya's Em­manuel Ko­rir (Nike) in 46.06, fol­lowed by USA's Mar­cus Cham­bers of Take No­tice Sports Man­age­ment with 46.12 and third was an­oth­er Amer­i­can Rashard Clark (TES Group) with 46.21.

The oth­er lo­cal ath­lete was Sparkle McK­night and she fea­tured in the women's 400m hur­dles. She placed fourth in 57.40 in a race won by USA’s Ash­ley Spencer with a 56.36-clock­ing. In sec­ond place was World Un­der-20 sil­ver medal­list Shi­an Salmon of Ja­maica (56.90) while in the third spot was Pana­man­ian Gi­an­na Woodruff in 57.22.