Kaliese Spencer cops Caribbean Sports Journalists Award

COMMONWEALTH Games champion Kaliese Spencer and the men’s 4x200m team that set a world best at the IAAF World Relay Championships in the Bahamas in May were the only Jamaican winners in the first Caribbean Sports Journalists’ Association (CASJA) annual awards.

Spencer, the 400m hurdles champion at the Commonwealth Games, as well as the IAAF Diamond Trophy winner, was named the Top Sportswoman, polling five of the six votes by a six-member panel comprised of Olympians Tonique Williams and Ato Boldon, former World Cup footballer Shaka Hislop and three track and field journalists from around the region.

Yarisley Silva of Cuba, the pole vault gold medallist from the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, ended second in the female vote.
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