In less than 24-hours Avin­dale Smith had his sil­ver medal won in the boys un­der-17 400 me­tres con­test up­grad­ed to gold af­ter the judges found that Bar­ba­di­an Kyle Gale, who won the race had vi­o­lat­ed rule 163.3 dur­ing the fi­nal on Fri­day af­ter­noon at the Carif­ta Games in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas.

Gale's run was a record per­for­mance af­ter he clocked 47.07 sec­onds. It was not so much that he broke the record but the fact the old mark be­longed to Ja­ma­cia's Us­ain Bolt who re­tired last year as un­doubt­ed­ly the great­est sprint­er the world has seen.

Home­town boy Ray­mond Ori­a­ki im­proved from bronze to sil­ver with his 47.75 sec­onds and Ja­maica's Malichi John­son, who was fourth get the bronze af­ter his 48.42 sec­onds run. Smith and Veay­on Joseph, the boys un­der-17 javelin cham­pi­on, are T&T two gold medal­list so far.

Mean­while, Patrice Richards se­cured T&T sixth medal, a bronze on day 2 of com­pe­ti­tion in the Girls un­der-17 400 me­tres Hur­dles event. Richards clocked 1:02.56 to fin­ish be­hind race win­ner Ja­maica's Cal­isha Tay­lor, who clocked 1:01.04 sec­ond with In­dea Cartwright of the Ba­hamas sec­ond in 1:0217. On­ly five run­ners con­test­ed the event.

In the boys Un­der-20 400 me­tres run, T&T's rep­re­sen­ta­tive On­al Mitchell had to set­tle for sixth place with a time of 48.16 sec­onds. The race was won by Ja­maican Dashawn Mor­ris in 46.58 sec­onds.

Che Saun­ders came up short in his ef­fort to medal for T&T when he fin­ished fifth in the boys Un­der-17 high jump coon­test af­ter pro­duc­ing a height of just 1.85 me­tres. Ja­maica's Ro­maine Beck­ford se­cured the gold medal with a leap of 2.00 me­tres.

Yes­ter­day's Se­lect­ed Re­sults

Boys 400 Me­ter Dash Un­der 17

1. Smith, Avin­dale (T&T) 47.54

2. Ori­a­ki, Ray­mond (BAH) 47.75

3. John­son, Malachi (JAM) 48.42

Boys 400 Me­ter Run Un­der 20

1 Mor­ris, Dashawn (JAM) 46.58

2 Jones, Jonathan (BAR) 46.97

3 An­gela, Ram­sey (CUW) 47.01

6 Mitchel, On­al (T&T) 48.16

Girls 400 Me­ter Dash Un­der 17

1 Moss, Megan (BAH) 53.19

2 Deer, Daniel­la (JAM) 53.95

3 Skeete, De­shana (GUY) 54.15

5 Serville, Rae-Anne (T&T) 55.03

7 Fox, Natasha (T&T) 56.96

Girls 400 Me­ter Hur­dles (0.76M) Un­der 17

1 Tay­lor, Cal­isha (JAM) 1:01.04

2 Cartwright, In­dea (BAH) 1:02.17

3 Richards, Patrice (T&T) 1:02.56

Boys High Jump (1.70m) Un­der 17

1 Beck­ford, Ro­maine (JAM) 2.00m

2 Mis­sick, Tyler (BAH) 1.90m

3 Stur­rup, Chris­t­ian (BAH) 1.90m

5 Saun­ders, Che (T&T) 1.85m