National Triathlon Team for CARIFTA

The National Triathlon Championships which was held on Saturday 10 June 2017 at Turtle Beach, Tobago served as a qualifying event for the inaugural CARIFTA Triathlon & Aquathlon Championship event which will be held in Barbados in the month of October 2017.

35 athletes qualified for the team and will be participating in either the triathlon or the aquathlon event.  The team will be accompanied by four officials; namely Derrick Simon and Alison Elliot who will primarily be responsible for the 16 to 19 and the 13 to 15 age groups and Angelo Clark and Riana Harrinauth being responsible for the 11 to 12 age group.

The team met for their first group training session on Saturday 29 July 2017 at the Hasley Crawford Stadium and sessions have been held every two weeks’ since that date.