Kanika Beckles

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Kanika Beckles
Personal information
Born (1991-10-03) October 3, 1991 (age 33)
St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago [1]
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) [2]
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Grenada.svg  Grenada
SportAthletics
Event(s) 400m, 200m
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada
CARIFTA Games(U20)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Cayman Islands 400 m
OECS Track and Field Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Tortola 400m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Tortola 4x400m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Grenada 400m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Grenada 4x400m

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]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada
2010 CARIFTA Games George Town, Cayman Islands 3rd400 m (U20)54.04
2011
2011 Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 7th (h)400m56.43s
2015
2015 Pan American Games Toronto, Canada 8th (s/f)200m28.14 [10]
2016
Trinidad & Tobago National Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2nd400m52.61s [11]
OECS Track and Field Championships Tortola, British Virgin Islands 4th200m23.78s (0.2 m/s) [12]
3rd400m53.37s [13]
2nd4 × 400 m relay3:41.75 [14]
2016 Rio Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 32nd (h)400m52.41s [15] [16]
2017 OECS Track and Field Championships Kirani James Athletic Stadium, Grenada 2nd400m53.90
2nd4 × 400 m RELAY3:37.48
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 6th sf400m53.80 [17] [18]
Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 4th400m53.75 [19] [20]

References

  1. "2018 CWG bio" . Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  2. "2018 CAC Games bio". Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  3. "Olympics-Women's athletics 400m first round - results". Reuters. 3 August 2012.
  4. "Olympics - BBC Sport". BBC Sport.
  5. London 2012 profile Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Glasgow 2014 - Kanika Beckles Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  7. "Athletics | Athlete Profile: Kanika BECKLES - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  8. "UPDATE 1-Olympics-Athletics-Women's 400m round 1 results". Reuters. 13 August 2016.
  9. "Women's 400m Schedule & Results – Olympic Athletics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  10. "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.
  11. "Meet Results".
  12. "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
  13. "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
  14. "OECS Championships 2016 - Complete Results (Raw)".
  15. "Women's 400m Schedule & Results – Olympic Athletics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  16. "Olympics - BBC Sport". BBC Sport.
  17. "Athletics | Result Women's 400m Semifinal 3 - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". Archived from the original on Aug 3, 2018.
  18. "Gold Coast 2018 - Women's 400m Semifinal 3/3" (PDF). April 10, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on Aug 3, 2018.
  19. "Event Schedule". 28 October 2021. Archived from the original on July 21, 2018.
  20. "BARRANQUILLA 2018 Women's 400m Final" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.