Anguilla at the World Athletics Championships
| Anguilla at the World Championships in Athletics | ||
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Medals |
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| World Championships in Athletics appearances ( overview) | ||
IAAF World Athletics Championships on seventeen occasions, attending every edition since the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. Its competing country code is AIA. The territory has not won any medals at the competition. Its best performance is by Shara Proctor, who placed fifth in the women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Proctor later won a World Championships silver medal while competing for Great Britain.[1]
Anguilla is not recognised by the International Olympic Committee as a nation. This has led to its more successful athletes competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as residents of a
IAAF events. Hughes said "I have always known that if I was to run at the Olympics it would be in a British vest and that is how I have always dreamt it would be."[2]
2019
, from 27 September to 6 October 2019. Anguilla will be represented by 1 athletes.
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
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| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Saymon Rijo Morris | 100 metres
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11.11 PB | 17 | Did not advance | |||||
References
- ^ IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 - Statistics Handbook. IAAF (2019). Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ British Athletics. "British Athletics Official Website - Eligibility for GB & NI confirmed".