CARIFTA 2024: Jamaica dominates after Day 2 with 24 gold, 15 silver, 10 bronze

Jamaica: As the penultimate day (Day 2) of the 51st staging of the CARIFTA Games concluded on March 31, Jamaica led the medal table with 24 gold, 15 silver and 10 bronze medals, bringing their overall tally to 49 medals.

The team of the Bahamas stands second on the table with 25 medals, followed by Guyana, Guadeloupe, and Trinidad and Tobago, rounding off the top 5.

Monday, April 1, will be the final day of competition for the 51st edition of the Games, which is being hosted at the Kerani James Athletic Stadium in St. Georges, Grenada. The Jamaican team dominated the 1500m at the Carifta Games 2024 by sweeping all the races in 1st and 2nd positions. The winners in this category from Jamaica were as follows: Girls Under 17 Dallia Fairweather - 4:45.86 – Gold Alikay Reynolds - 4:46.14 – Silver Girls Under 20 Rickeisha Simms - 4:31.94 – Gold Kaydeen Johnson - 4:32.49 – Silver Boys Under 17 Shemar Green - 4:11.91 – Gold Wyndel Beyde - 4:12.80 – Silver Boys Under 20 Kemarrio Bygrave - 3:58.10 – Gold Jaquan Coke - 3:58.38 – Silver According to the information, on the morning of Day 2 of the Games being held in Grenada, Bahamas added to the two gold medals they won on Saturday with Taysha Stubbs, a 17-year-old rising star, securing another in the U20 Girls Javelin event. She dominated the points table with a remarkable throw of 50.94m.

On the other hand, Kimeka Smith triumphed in the Under 20 Girls Shot Put. The athlete delivered a strong threw of 13.68m and secured another gold for her country.

Jamaica’s Rickoy Hunter also gave an exceptional performance the Under 20 Boys Long Jump final and snatched the gold during the closing moments of the morning session yesterday. Throughout the competition, he stood at 3rd but seized the chance in his last attempt, with a remarkable jump of 7.48m.

The team also secured three out of four 4x100m relay events. In the Under 17 Girls 4x100m relay, the team secured gold by reaching the finish line in 45.36 seconds.

In the U17 Boys 4x100m, Nyron Wade, Malike Nugent, Byron Walker, and Oshane Jervis claimed another gold by finishing in 41.30 seconds while in the Under 20 Girls 4x100m relay, the team Habiba Harris, Theianna-Lee Terrelonge, Briana Campbell, and Shanoya Douglas clocked a time of 43.63 seconds.