The Saint Lucia Athletics Association is the national governing body for athletics in Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

, inclusive of track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, cross country running

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, road running

Road running

Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events would be classified as long distance according to athletics terminology, with distances typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the marathon. They may involve large numbers of runners...

 and racewalking. The Athletics Association is formally known as the Saint Lucia Amateur Athletics Association. The organisation was founded in 1977 to promote Track and Field in St Lucia In 1978 the SLAA became an affiliate member of the world governing body for athletics, then called the International Amateur Athletics Federation, and now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations

International Association of Athletics Federations

The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

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Based at Olympic House on Barnard Hill in Castries, the SLAA is a non-profit organisation, led by a President, Cornelius Breen, elected at the organisation's most recent Biennial General Meeting in October 2010. The SLAA is involved in many aspects of the sport at the local, national, and international level - coaching education, sports science and athlete development, youth programmes and masters (age 40+) competition. It also organises the annual National Senior Track and Field Championships, which are normally convened at the George Odlum National Stadium.

Saint Lucia Athletics Association

Mailing Address:GM 697
Gable Woods Mall, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies

Email: lca@mf.iaaf.org

President: Mr. Cornelius Breen
(758) 452 5611

Secretary: Miss Lisa Joseph
(758) 451 6596 (SecPr)
(758) 714 7519 (Mobile)

Telephone: 758 453 6758, 758 452 5611

Fax: 758 452 1272

Physical Address: Olympic House, Barnard Hill, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies