T&T athletes failed to add to this country's two bronze medals when competition continued on a rainy day at the 21st Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and Bogota, Colombia, yesterday. In a late chase for gold last night, the 4x100-metre medley relay quartet of Kimberlee John-Williams, Kimba Collymore and USA-based duo, Samantha Rahael and two-time Olympian, Sharntelle Mc Lean combined for a time of four minutes, 28.37 and sixth spot. Mexico won gold in record swim of 4:09.29 while Puerto Rico got silver and Bahamas took the bronze.
The local women's quartet qualified for the final as the eighth fastest team in 4:32.12, for fifth in heat two. The other swimmers in action, Joshua Mc Leod, Christian Homer Collymore failed to qualify for their respective finals. In the men's 100-metre butterfly, Mc Leod was fourth in heat three and just missed a finals spot in a personal best time of 56.36. Homer was fifth in heat four and 11th overall in 55.66 seconds. Collymore was third in heat two in the women's 100-metre breaststroke in a season's best of one minute, 15.06 seconds to be the 11th fastest.�In the men's 1,000-metre Kayak Single Flatwater race, T&T's Vernon Lee was sixth from a field of six in five minutes, 00.888 seconds at the Cerrillos Lake, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Venezuela's Jose Ramos (3:47.18) took gold while silver and bronze were won by Mexico's Osbaldo Fuentes (3:54.095) and Dominican Republic's Wendy Franco (3:59.363) respectively. Lee also combined with Satyam Maharaj for fifth position in the Kayak Double 1000m final when they crossed the line in four minutes, 47.147 seconds. Once again, Ramos had a hand in another Venezuelan gold medal performance as he partnered Marcos Peres for a time of three minutes, 21.839 seconds. Second was Mexico's Manuel Cortina and Jesus Valdez in 3:23.782 while Dominican Republic duo, Franco and Joel Aria took bronze in 3:40.337 with Puerto Rico's Samuel Figueroa and Edgar Padro, fourth in 3:59.535. Today, Maharaj will be one of six participants in the 200m men Kayak Single final.
