Published On:Wednesday, July 28, 2010

More than 1,400 athletes and team officials from 170 countries converged in New Brunswick, Canada, for the track and field meet.

The Bahamas was highlighted by Shaunae Miller’s gold medal performance in the women's 400m with a time of 52.52s.

In the tightly contested final, she handily defeated 2010 world junior leader Margaret Etim of Nigeria who finished in 53.05s, while Bianca Razor of Romania finished third in 53.17s.

Miller set a new junior national record in the 400m and became the second gold medallist for the Bahamas at the meet. In Poland in 2008, Olympian Sheniqua 'Q' Ferguson captured the gold in the 200m.

200m

In the women's 200m, both Anthonique Strachan and Tynia Gaither reached the semifinal but were unable to advance. Strachan finished fourth in heat four in 23.99s while Gaither finished 8th in heat one in 24.48s.

In the men's 200m, Trevorano Mackey reached the semifinal round as well, but failed to advance. He finished seventh in heat two in a time of 21.71s. Laron Hield finished eighth in heat five of the opening round with a time of 22.15s.

Long Jump

Raymond Higgs finished 11th in the men's long jump with a leap of 7.09m.

High Jump

Higgs finished 15th in group B of the High Jump qualification with a leap of 2.00m, which was a season's best.

Triple Jump

Latario Minns finished eighth in group A with a leap of 15.35m in the opening round of the event.

400m

Rashan Brown just missed out on a berth to the final after she finished fifth in semifinal three in 54.14s.

In the men's 400m, Stephen Newbold struggled in the preliminaries of the men's 400m and finished seventh in 50.62s.

100m

V'Alonee Robinson's bid in the women's 100m ended in the semifinals where she finished seventh in 12.14s.

Marvar Etienne finished fourth in heat five, however, her time of 12.12s was not fast enough to qualify for the semifinals.

Warren Fraser advanced to the second round of the men's century when he took heat four in 10.46s, a new personal best.

He advanced to the semifinal where he ran in heat three and finished third in 10.72s

Geno Jones finished third in heat three in 10.66s, but failed to advance to the next round.

100mH

Ivanique Kemp turned in a personal best in the preliminary round with a time of 13.58s. She finished fifth in heat two in a time of 13.77s.

400mH

Nejmi Burnside posted a time of 54.17s in the preliminaries of the men's 400m hurdles, good enough for seventh place.

1600m relay

In the men's event, Burnside, Earl Rahming, Alonzo Russell and Delano Deveaux finished eighth in heat two in 3:14.42.

In the women's event, Miller, Brown, Katrina Seymour and Amara Jones reached the final and just barely missed out on a medal when they finished in fourth place, setting a new junior national record of 3:33.43s.

400m relay

In the men's 400m, Mackey, Fraser, Jones and Alfred Higgs (above) finished in 40.58s for a season's best time, but failed to advance to the final. The women's team of Robinson, Etienne, Gaither and Deandra Whitehorne finished in a season's best time of 45.45s, but they failed to advance.