Carif­ta cham­pi­ons Machel Ce­de­nio and And­wuelle Wright are among sev­en T&T ath­letes who ranked in the top ten in the world in their events.Ce­de­nio (Sim­plex) is at num­ber four on the men's ju­nior (Un­der-20) 400-me­tres per­for­mance list­ing fol­low­ing his 45.93 per­son­al best (pb) clock­ing in strik­ing gold at the Carif­ta Games in the Ba­hamas on March 30. Ce­de­nio al­so ran 45.99 to take the TnT Elite Twi­light Games men's one-lap ti­tle on May 3.

Triple Carif­ta medal­list Jereem Richards (Abi­lene Wild­cats) is eighth with a pb run of 46.20 sec­onds in fin­ish­ing third be­hind Ce­de­nio at the TnT Elite Games. Richards is al­so eighth in the 200m (20.95).John-Mark Con­stan­tine (Con­corde) is sev­enth-quick­est in the men's 100m af­ter he dashed to 10.38 (pb) to win at the Carif­ta tri­als on March 2. Con­stan­tine's run was more im­pres­sive as he ran in­to a 3.4m/s head­wind.

Dou­ble Carif­ta bronze medal­list Reubin Wal­ters (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers) sits at ninth in the men's 110m hur­dles (99.0cm) with a pb time of 13.66 set at the Fal­con Games on March 24.In the World Youth (U-18) stand­ing, 2012/2013 Carif­ta gold medal­list And­wuelle Wright (Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary) is sev­enth in the boys long jump with his 7.29 dis­tance which he set in re­tain­ing his boys U-17 Carif­ta ti­tle ear­li­er this year. Last year's Carif­ta boys U-17 200m cham­pi­on Jonathan Far­in­ha (Abi­lene Wild­cats) is at fourth in the boys 200m with 21.10 pb dash at the first day of ac­tion at the Fal­cons Games on March 23.

Kayelle Clarke is the lone fe­male on the glob­al list­ings. The Petrotrin Pa­lo Seco sprint­er is at sixth in the world youth 200m af­ter she re­turned a time of 23.76 in fin­ish­ing sixth in the girls un­der-20 200m fi­nals at the Carif­ta Games.