Day aims for Rio medal

Following what was merely a training run at the inaugural McKenley-Wint Track and Field Classic on Saturday, 2015 World Championship relay gold medallist Christine Day revealed that she has ambitions of winning an individual medal at the Olympic Games in Rio this summer.

Day, 29, whose best time ranked her sixth in the world in 2015, won the Olympic Development 800 metre run in 2:15.34 on Calabar's brand new synthetic track ahead of her sister Jonique and Tiffany James, before telling of her ambitions for later this year.

"I really want to get an individual medal at the Olympics, but you have to make it to the trials, which is what I am working towards," said Day, who finished fourth in the 400m in Beijing last August in a personal best 50.14s.

GOOD TRAINING

So far, under new coach Bertland Cameron, Jamaica's first ever World Championship gold medallist, Day said training has been going well. "Training is going great, and I'm really looking forward to this season. I am working on weak areas, getting stronger in areas I used to struggle with. Once I stay healthy, greater things will come," said Day, who ran a blistering lead-off leg for Jamaica's women's mile-relay team that upset the United States to win one of Jamaica's seven gold medals in Beijing.

As for the 800m run, Day explained the performance was more about training and supporting the inaugural meet named in honour of two of Jamaica's greatest athletes Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley.

"It was just a part of our training. Coach just wanted to support the track meet so he sent us out to run an 800m," she said.