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| Nationality | Guyanese | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 September 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Javelin: 51.27m (Lubbock, 2023) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anisha Gibbons (born 25 September 2004) is a Guyanese track and field athlete. She is a national champion and national record holder in the javelin throw. [1]
Gibbons attended New Mexico Junior College near Hobbs, New Mexico, United States on a scholarship to study business. [2] [3]
Gibbons won the CARIFTA Games U17 category in 2019. [4] After the victory she was donated a new Javelin by the National Sports Commission after reports circulated that she had been practising using a 45 year-old Javelin. [5]
Gibbons set a new national record throw of 45.37 metres in Leonora, Guyana on 3 April 2022. She won the CARIFTA U20 event in 2022 in Kingston, Jamaica. [6] She became Guyanese senior national champion in June 2022. [7]
Gibbons extended her national record with a 51.27 metres throw in Lubbock, Texas, United States in March 2023. [8] [9] She retained her CARIFTA Games U20 title in Nassau, Bahamas in 2023 with a distance of 47.96 metres. [10] [11]
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