Kanika Beckles

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]

Kanika Beckles

Personal information
Born	(1991-10-03) October 3, 1991 (age 33) St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago[1]
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Grenada
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	400m, 200m
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Grenada CARIFTA Games(U20) 2010 Cayman Islands 400 m OECS Track and Field Championships 2016 Tortola 400m 2016 Tortola 4x400m 2017 Grenada 400m 2017 Grenada 4x400m

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Grenada
2010	CARIFTA Games	George Town, Cayman Islands	3rd	400 m (U20)	54.04
2011
	2011 Pan American Games	Guadalajara, Mexico	7th (h)	400m	56.43s
2015
	2015 Pan American Games	Toronto, Canada	8th (s/f)	200m	28.14[10]
2016
	Trinidad & Tobago National Championships	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	2nd	400m	52.61s [11]
	OECS Track and Field Championships	Tortola, British Virgin Islands	4th	200m	23.78s (0.2 m/s) [12]
			3rd	400m	53.37s[13]
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:41.75 [14]
	2016 Rio Summer Olympics	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	32nd (h)	400m	52.41s[15][16]
2017	OECS Track and Field Championships	Kirani James Athletic Stadium, Grenada	2nd	400m	53.90
			2nd	4 × 400 m RELAY	3:37.48
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	6th sf	400m	53.80[17][18]
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla, Colombia	4th	400m	53.75[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.
20. "BARRANQUILLA 2018 Women's 400m Final" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.