Goule wins 800m with season’s best at Trials
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Commonwealth Games medallist Natoya Goule ran a season best and world fifth best 1 minute 57.48 seconds to win the women’s 800m on Saturday’s third day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Ministry of Sports/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships at the National Stadium.
Goule who has never lost on Jamaican soil – even as a schoolgirl at Manchester High – ran her fastest time ever locally as she decimated the field and won by almost 30 metres, running from the front form the start.
Jazmine Fray was second with 2:03.92 seconds and Aisha Praught-Leer was third with 2:05.31 seconds.
Edwin Allen schoolboy Chevonne Hall won the men’s title with 1:48.58 seconds, beating Tyrese Reid of Barton County College who ran a personal best 1:48.94 seconds and Kimar Farquharson who was third in 1:51.24 seconds.
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