Anthonique Strachan


Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter, is the 2012 100m and 200m World Junior Champion. She attended St. Augustine's College in Nassau, Bahamas, and trained with Club Monica Athletics. She now lives and trains in Auburn, Alabama under coach Henry Rolle who also coaches Kerron Stewart and Marc Burns.

Career

At the 2011 CARIFTA Games, she won two gold medals, and 200 metres in 23.17s ) in the junior category equalling Veronica Campbell's 200 metres games
record of 22.93s in the heats. She was consequently awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games.
Strachan won gold medals over 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Her 200 metres time of 22.70 was a new World Junior Leading and a new championship record.
At the 2012 CARIFTA Games, she won three gold medals: 100 metres in wind-assisted 11.22s, 200 metres, this year improving Veronica Campbell's and her own 200 metres games record to 22.85s, and finally, she led the Bahamas 4 × 100 m relay team to gold in 45.02s. For the second time in the role, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games.

Achievements