The trio of Janae De Gannes, Kadeem Chi­napoo, and Ta­fari Wal­dron all won gold medals for T&T to close out the 51st edi­tion of the Carif­ta Games at the Ki­rani James Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um, Grena­da, last night.

De Gannes lived up to her billing as the gold medal favourite in the Un­der-20 Girls Long Jump by tak­ing gold medal with a record leap of 6.50 me­tres on her first at­tempt to bet­ter Ya­nis David 6.48 me­tres set in 2016 al­so in Grena­da.

Ja­maica’s Ro­han­na Surd­low fin­ished sec­ond with 6.30m, and Ba­hami­an Lanaisha Lu­bin, bronze with a best of 5.90m while T&T’s oth­er en­trant, Nao­mi Pierce was sixth with a best of 5.77m on her sixth and fi­nal at­tempt.

Chi­napoo added to T&T’s gold­en haul when he topped the 200m Boys Un­der-17 fi­nal in 21.78 sec­onds beat­ing Ja­maica’s Os­hane Jervis (22.16), and British Vir­gin Is­lands’ Tion­dre Frett (22.18) in a close third.

Wal­dron re­peat­ed as cham­pi­on in the Un­der-20 Boys 5000m in as­ton­ish­ing fash­ion with a time of 15 min­utes, 01.60 sec­onds with Bermu­da’s Jake Bris­lane a dis­tant sec­ond in 15:42.42 and T&T’s Omare Thomp­son adding an­oth­er medal for his team in se­cur­ing third in 16:03.43.

USA-based Sole Fred­er­ick had to set­tle for the sil­ver medal in the Un­der-20 Girls 200m fi­nal in 23.07 sec­onds, los­ing out to Ja­maica’s Shanoya Dou­glas who in a tight fin­ish in 23.03 with Ja­maica’s Sab­ri­na Dock­ery (23.13) just edg­ing out the oth­er Fred­er­ick sis­ter de­fendin cham­pi­on Sanaa (23.24) for the bronze.

In the Un­der-17 Girls 100m hur­dles fi­nal, T&T’s Jen­na-Marie Thomas had to set­tle for the sil­ver medal with a time of 13.74 sec­onds, to trail Ja­maica’s Malaysia Dun­can who won in 13.63 while Cu­ra­cao’s Zsa-Zsa Frans took bronze in 14.21 with T&T’s oth­er fi­nal­ist Tenique Vin­cent, fifth in 14.72.

In the morn­ing ses­sion, Thomas qual­i­fied for the fi­nal as the run­ner-up in heat two and third fastest over­all with a time of 14.01 sec­onds, to trail Ja­maican An­gel Robin­son (13.82) while Vin­cent al­so se­cured a spot in the fi­nal as the third-placed fin­ish­er in heat one in 14.75, the sixth best time over­all, and be­hind Dun­can who won the heat in 14.26, and Frans, who clocked 14.33 for the fourth best time.

The lo­cal boys quar­tet of Ma­kee­lan Woods, She­zlon Gor­don, Michal Paul, and Khor­dae Lewis had to set­tle for sil­ver in the Un­der-17 Boys 4x100m re­lay in 3:21.24 be­hind cham­pi­ons Ja­maica while host Grena­da took the bronze while the Un­der-20 Girls re­lay team se­cured a sil­ver medal as well.

T&T’s Keneisha Shel­bourne se­cured a bronze medal in the Un­der-20 Girls High Jump with a best height of 1.70 me­tres, af­ter fail­ing to clear the 1.73m mark­er.

Ja­maica took gold and sil­ver with Rashe­da Samuels, the win­ner at 1.78m and De­janne Bruce, the sil­ver at 1.76m

T&T’s Keer­an Sriskan­dara­jah got bronze in the Un­der-20 Boys 800m in one minute, 52.91 sec­onds, with his coun­try­man Jah­fa Wood­ley, fourth in 1:53.63 min­utes while Ja­maica’s Ke­mario By­grave won gold in 1:51.43, and Grena­da’s Dean­ge­lo Brown sec­ond in 1:52.81.

The lo­cal Un­der-17 Girls 4x400 re­lay quar­tet of Kyah Hyson, Tenique Vin­cent, Shi­an Lewis, and Jen­na-Marie Thomas were el­e­vat­ed from fourth to third spot with a time of three min­utes, 54.49 sec­onds and Bar­ba­dos was dis­qual­i­fied while Ja­maica was an easy win­ner in 3:41.84, with Ba­hamas tak­ing sil­ver in 3:47.13.

In the 4x400m Boys Un­der-20 re­lay, the T&T quar­tet of Dashaun Leza­ma, Dae­shaun Cole, Keone John, and Kyrell Thomas placed third in heat two in three min­utes, 15.31 sec­onds to qual­i­fy third best be­hind Ja­maica (3:13.52), and Guyana (3:15.14), and fifth best over­all ahead of the fi­nal.

Grena­da qual­i­fied top in 3:12.09 and Ba­hamas, third in 3:12.51 af­ter their one-two fin­ish in semi­fi­nal heat one.

T&T’s Ad­dalia Sylvester was fourth with a best of 35.73m in the Girl’s Dis­cus Throw, with com­pa­tri­ot Pey­ton Win­ter, fifth with 32.72.

In the Un­der-17 Boys 110m hur­dles, T&T’s Omari Brown (14.20 sec­onds) and Tyrique Vin­cent (33.75) were fifth and sev­enth re­spec­tive­ly.

T&T’s Shi­an Lewis was fourth in in the Un­der-17 Girls 800m in two min­utes, 21.36 sec­onds and in the boys equiv­a­lent, T&T’s Brion Scott was fifth in two min­utes, 00.28 sec­onds. And in the Un­der-20 Girls, 800m T&T’s Kaleigh Forde was sev­enth best in 2:16.67 min­utes.

T&T will play host to the 2025 Carif­ta Games Track and Field Cham­pi­onship.