Carifta Games

[mikesiva]

"Hosts St Kitts will field a 37-member contingent and will be hoping to increase their haul this year, after picking up three medals last year when the meet was staged in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. As usual, powerhouses Jamaica will be expected to dominate the Games, with their 78-member strong contingent tipped to be the ones to beat yet again. Their squad will be headlined by the outstanding Jaheel Hyde, the World Junior 400 metres and Youth Olympic Games 110m hurdles champion and Michael O'Hara who won four gold medals at last weekend's Boys and Girls' Championships in Jamaica. Jamaica won 89 medals last year - 42 gold, 34 silver and 13 bronze - and will be going all out to better that mark. The powerful Jamaicans have won all but five of the meets over the CARIFTA Games history. Trinidad and Tobago, also a major force in regional athletics, were scheduled to leave yesterday for St Kitts where their 68-member team will be expected to make their mark."

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[mikesiva]

Watch live here....

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[mikesiva]

Has the St Kitts federation made its peace with Kim Collins?

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[Keith]

Yes Mike the stadium will be renamed KIM Collins Stadium now that the dictator has been rejected by the people in the Feb elections.

here is a link to the Carifta

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[mikesiva]

Thanks, Keith...that's very good news.

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"Jamaica’s Christopher Taylor was one of the outstanding athletes on yesterday’s second day of the 44th Carifta Games at the Silver Jubilee Stadium — to be renamed the Kim Collins — Stadium in Basseterre, St Kitts, as he broke Usain Bolt’s 13-year-old record in the Under-18 boys’ 400m. The 15-year-old Taylor, who won the Class Two event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships last weekend, ran 46.64 seconds to erase Bolt’s 47.33 seconds set in 2002 in Nassau, The Bahamas. Jacob St Clair of Trinidad and Tobago was also under the old mark with 46.73 seconds to take silver, while Devaughn Ellington of Jamaica was third with a personal best 47.43 seconds. Ellington just edged The Bahamas’s Jamal Walton, last year’s bronze medallist who was also clocked in at 47.43 seconds. amaica won three of the four 400m gold medals and both of the girls 100m titles to finish the day with a preliminary count of 29 medals comprising 14 gold, seven silver and eight bronze. The Bahamas had won 13 medals with four gold, two silver and seven bronze, while Barbados won two gold in their seven-medal haul so far."

[Keith]

Jamaica takes gold and silver in the U18 3000m male with Kemon Lawrence and Salmon I believe is the name of the silver medalist.

However, despite the dominance of the Jamaicans over the years, this year has seen a tremendous come back in the narrowing this gap between the Jamaicans and the rest. We have seen Bahamas and Barbados snatching medals away from the Jamaicans easily but this does not stop the powerful Yardies who continue to dominate the event.

[mikesiva]

This is what I keep telling Afro....

Kim Collins is a hero for Kittians and Nevisians like no cricketer. Ryan Brathwaite has inspired a string of high hurdlers in Barbados, and is taking young talent away from cricket. First Keshorn Walcott, and then Jehue Gordon, who won gold medals in the javelin and the 400m hurdles respectively, have taken the hearts of Trinidadian youngsters in a way Lil Bravo can only dream of....

The Eastern Caribbean are embracing track and field athletics in a way they never did 20 years ago.

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"JAMAICAN teams swept the sprint relays last night as they pulled away in the medals table at the 44th Carifta Games at the Kim Collins Stadium in Basseterre, St Kitts. The Jamaican teams did one better than last year when they won three of the four 4x100m relays and closed the day on 47 medals -- 23 gold, 14 silver and 10 bronze -- but it looks unlikely they will beat the 80-plus medals won last year in Fort de France, Martinique. The Under-20 boys' 4x100m team of Raheem Chambers, Michael O'Hara, Chad Walker and Nigel Ellis ran 40.39 seconds to beat The Bahamas, who clocked 40.41 seconds with Trinidad and Tobago third in 40.55 seconds. The Under-20 girls' team of Jeanine Williams, Yanique Thompson, Saqukine Cameron and Natalliah Whyte ran 45.20 seconds to easily win over The Bahamas in 45.59 seconds, and Trinidad and Tobago in 47.64 seconds. IAAF World junior champion and National Junior Record (NJR) holder Jaheel Hyde easily won the Under-20 boys' 400m hurdles on yesterday's third day to remain unbeaten in the event over the last two years. Hyde, who set a NJR 49.02 seconds last weekend at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Championships, was easy as he cruised to a 50.96-second clocking to add the gold to the Under-18 title he won last year in Fort de France, Martinique. Hyde's teammate Marvin Williams repeated his silver medal from last year, running 51.11 seconds with Barbados's Stephen Griffiths taking the bronze in 51.77 seconds."

[mikesiva]

"Jamaica's junior athletes once again proved they are the kings and queens of the Caribbean with another dominant display at the annual Carifta Games after amassing 85 medals at the 44th staging of the championships which ended at the newly renamed Kim Collins Stadium in Basseterre, St Kitts, yesterday. The Jamaicans won 41 gold, 25 silver and 19 bronze medals, the 31st straight time they have topped the table and their second best ever haul since the schedule moved to 66 events, and just shy of the record 89 medals won last year in Fort de France, Martinique. The Bahamas finished second on the table with 31 medals, eight gold, 13 silver and 10 bronze; Barbados were next with seven gold, four silver and five bronze; Trinidad and Tobago were fourth with six gold medals, eight silver and eight bronze, while Grenada won a gold, three silver, and four bronze to complete the top five. Nineteen of the 25 countries that took part won at least one medal, while eight countries won at least a gold medal."

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