T&T's Jeron Thomp­son had to set­tle for win­ning the men's B-Fi­nal in the 50m but­ter­fly event when the fifth Com­mon­wealth Youth Games com­pe­ti­tion splashed off at the Tu­a­na'ima­to Sports Fa­cil­i­ty, Samoa, yes­ter­day.

Thomp­son touched the wall in 26.23 fol­lowed by Lushano Lam­precht of Namib­ia (26.31) and Browdy Hewi­son (26.35).

In the morn­ing heats he had a time of 26.19

Yes­ter­day, Thomp­son re­turned to the pool and was third in the 50m back­stroke B-Fi­nal in 28.71 af­ter he clocked 29.01 in the morn­ing heats. Thomp­son then had the dis­ap­point­ing of be­ing dis­qual­i­fied from heat three of the 100m breast­stroke while to­day he com­petes in the 50m breast­stroke event.

Ami­ra Pil­grim, T&T's oth­er swim­mer at the Games was fifth in her women's 50m but­ter­fly B-Fi­nal in 29.49 af­ter a 29.32 heats tim­ing, and im­proved on that show­ing yes­ter­day when she got third spot in the 100m freestyle B-fi­nal in 59.35 af­ter a 59.45 tim­ing in the morn­ing heats.

In the 200m mixed med­ley where T&T paired with Ja­maica, the com­bi­na­tion end­ed in sev­enth spot.

Man­ag­er of the swim­ming team, Joseph Mc Leod was pleased with the ath­letes' per­for­mance. "I'm pleased with their per­for­mance since this the first time the ath­letes have been ex­posed to an In­ter­na­tion­al event and com­peti­tors; pri­or to this they would have been ex­posed to re­gion­al events such as CC­CAN and Carif­ta. Sim­ple things such as the pool tem­per­a­ture (cold­er) and small­er start­ing blocks the ath­letes must ad­just," he stat­ed.

He fur­ther de­scribed the Com­mon­wealth Youth Games as de­vel­op­men­tal in na­ture and helps pre­pare ath­letes men­tal­ly for the se­nior mul­ti sport­ing events.

In ath­let­ics, Youth Olympic ath­lete Akan­ni His­lop placed sec­ond in his heat in a time 10.72 sec­onds and au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fied for the se­mi-fi­nals.

Un­for­tu­nate­ly, he suc­cumbed to an in­jury dur­ing the race and was un­able to start the semi­fi­nal.

The med­ical team was able to work with Akan­ni to en­sure that he was fit to run the 200m, how­ev­er he was dis­qual­i­fied from his heat. To­day, T&T's fourth and fi­nal ath­lete at the Games, Aki­dah Brig­gs, takes her bow in the 12-women field shot put fi­nals.