National women's sprint relay potential noteworthy

Wed, Aug 14th 2019, 08:50 AM

Ten years ago, with two of the original Golden Girls still active and performing very well (reference is to Chandra Sturrup and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie), The Bahamas captured the 4×100 meters relay silver medal at the 2009 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Ferguson-McKenzie also won the 200 meters bronze that year.

That was 10 years after, along with the other original Golden Girls (Pauline Davis, Savatheda Fynes and Eldeece Clarke), Sturrup and Ferguson-McKenzie had captured the 1999 IAAF Worlds relay sprint gold medal. The Olympic sprint relay gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, to go with the 1996 Olympic silver medal in Atlanta, gave the original Golden Girls dynasty status.

The original Golden Girls are all retired now. A nation remains hopeful, nevertheless, that others would come forward to enhance the sprint relay legacy for The Bahamas, which the original Golden Girls gave foundation to.

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