Kanika Alana Beckles (born 3 October 1991, in Saint Joseph) is a Trinidadian-born Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represented Grenada at the 2012 Summer Olympics but did not start.[3][4][5] She reached the semifinals of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, after missing large parts of the 2012 and 2013 seasons with a torn hamstring and ACL surgery.[6][7] At the 2016 Summer Olympics she represented Grenada but placed fifth in her heat with a time 52.41 Seconds (a season's best) and with an overall ranking of 32nd. She did not advance to the semifinals.[8][9]
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Born | St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago[1] | October 3, 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 400m, 200m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Competition record
editYear | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2010 | CARIFTA Games | George Town, Cayman Islands | 3rd | 400 m (U20) | 54.04 |
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2011 Pan American Games | Guadalajara, Mexico | 7th (h) | 400m | 56.43s | |
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2015 Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada | 8th (s/f) | 200m | 28.14[10] | |
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Trinidad & Tobago National Championships | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 2nd | 400m | 52.61s [11] | |
OECS Track and Field Championships | Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 4th | 200m | 23.78s (0.2 m/s) [12] | |
3rd | 400m | 53.37s[13] | |||
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:41.75 [14] | |||
2016 Rio Summer Olympics | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 32nd (h) | 400m | 52.41s[15][16] | |
2017 | OECS Track and Field Championships | Kirani James Athletic Stadium, Grenada | 2nd | 400m | 53.90 |
2nd | 4 × 400 m RELAY | 3:37.48 | |||
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 6th sf | 400m | 53.80[17][18] |
Central American and Caribbean Games | Barranquilla, Colombia | 4th | 400m | 53.75[19][20] |
References
edit- ^ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ "2018 CAC Games bio". Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ "Olympics-Women's athletics 400m first round - results". Reuters. 3 August 2012.
- ^ "Olympics - BBC Sport". BBC Sport.
- ^ London 2012 profile Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Kanika Beckles Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ "Athletics | Athlete Profile: Kanika BECKLES - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ "UPDATE 1-Olympics-Athletics-Women's 400m round 1 results". Reuters. 13 August 2016.
- ^ "Women's 400m Schedule & Results – Olympic Athletics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
- ^ "Athletics Results Women's 200m Semifinal 1/2 - Toronto 2015 Pan American Games". Archived from the original on 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
- ^ "Meet Results".
- ^ "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
- ^ "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
- ^ "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
- ^ "Women's 400m Schedule & Results – Olympic Athletics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
- ^ "Olympics - BBC Sport". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Athletics | Result Women's 400m Semifinal 3 - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". Archived from the original on Aug 3, 2018.
- ^ "Gold Coast 2018 - Women's 400m Semifinal 3/3" (PDF). April 10, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on Aug 3, 2018.
- ^ "Event Schedule". 28 October 2021.
- ^ "BARRANQUILLA 2018 Women's 400m Final" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.