Tynelle Gumbs

Tynelle Gumbs
nation	British Virgin Islands
birthday	27th September 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Puerto Rico
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
status	active
last change: April 20, 2019

Tynelle Gumbs (* 27. September 1998 in Puerto Rico ) is a hammer thrower from the British Virgin Islands , also in the shot put and the discus throw and the javelin is launched.

Athletic career

Tynelle Gumbs gained her first international experience at the Pan American Junior Championships 2013 in Medellín , where she finished 13th in the discus throw with 30.82 m and 15th in the javelin throw with 33.80 m . In the following year she won the bronze medal in the discus throw at the CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France with a width of 40.45 m and was fifth in the javelin throw and sixth in the shot put. The following year she finished sixth and two times seventh place at the Games in Basseterre . Then she reached at the Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton with 43.80 m rank six with the discus. In 2016 she was fifth in the hammer throw at the U23 NACAC championships in San Salvador with 53.80 m and sixth in the discus throw with 47.51 m.

In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where she achieved seventh place in the hammer throw with a new national record of 60.97 m and finished ninth with the discus with a throw of 47.04 m. At the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla , she was fifth with the hammer and tenth in the discus throw. Then she was at the NACAC Championships in Toronto with 58.78 m fourth in the hammer throw.

Personal best

• Shot put: 15.23 m, July 1, 2017 in St. George’s ( national record )
  • Shot put (hall): 14.57 m, February 9, 2018 in Allendale
• Discus throw: 51.43 m, April 22, 2017 in Ada ( national record )
• Hammer throw: 60.97 m, April 10, 2019 in Gold Coast ( national record )
• Javelin throw: 40.12 m, June 14, 2015 in Basseterre

Web links

• Tynelle Gumbs in the database of World Athletics (English)