Wendell Hercules National Championships set for July 19 & 20
The 2025 staging of the TASVG Wendell Hercules National Championships has been shifted to a new proposed date, resulting from a clash with another major event.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines will play host to the 2025 CBN/WINLOTT Windward Island School Games, from July 26th to August 2nd. The first day of competition will be the Track & Field component on July 26th at the Sir Vincent Beache National Stadium, which was slated to be the first day of the National Championships.
With that, TASVG has opted to bring the national championships forward by one week, to July 19th and 20th.
This year’s championships will likely see participation from overseas based Vincentian athletes. This is due to a new World Athletics stipulation in their ranking system. Athletes will no longer be required to meet qualification standards, but will instead be ranked according to their performances over the season. Each country’s national championships will carry the most ranking points for athletes, wishing to participate at the World Championships in Tokyo, in September.
Which means athletes such as 800m runners Shafiqua Maloney and Handal Roban, Long Jumper Uroy Ryan, 400m runner Amal Glasgow, Triple Jumper J’aivar Cato and others, could compete in front of a home crowd for the first time since leaving to go to schools in Jamaica and the United States.
