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Sunday, June 1, 2025

T&T add 6 more medals on day 2

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Rachael Thompson-King
782 days ago
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T&T closed with four re­lay medals on day two of the 50th Carif­ta Games in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas on Sun­day.

This in­creased T&T's medal tal­ly by six in the evening ses­sion at the Thomas A Robin­son Sta­di­um, al­so pick­ing up two sil­ver medals in the girls' hep­tathlon and the boys' Un­der-17 high jump.

The girls' U-17 4x100m re­lay team of Sym­pho­ny Patrick, Kaori Rob­ley, Kazi­ah Pe­ters and Alexxe Hen­ry was pro­mot­ed to the gold medal po­si­tion af­ter Ja­maica was dis­qual­i­fied for run­ning out of lane on the fi­nal han­dover.

The boys U-17 4x100m team of Tre­vaughn Stew­art, Kadeem Chi­napoo, Im­mani Matthew and Jaden Clement earned a spot on the podi­um by tak­ing the bronze medal af­ter the Ja­maican team was dis­qual­i­fied for tak­ing the ba­ton "out of zone" on the sec­ond change-over.

Reneisha An­drews, Janae De Gannes, Sanaa Fred­er­ick and Sole Fred­er­ick, the girls' U-20 sprint quar­tet, earned sil­ver, and the boys' U-20 team of Keone John, Joshua Mas­call, Jor­dan Noel and Michael Jack end­ed the sprint re­lay se­ries by bag­ging bronze in a con­tro­ver­sial se­nior boys' race.

Ear­li­er that evening, mul­ti-sports ath­lete Gi­an­na Paul copped sil­ver in the girls' open hep­tathlon. The 17-year-old tal­lied 4,594 points in the sev­en-dis­ci­pline event to place sec­ond. T&T's oth­er mul­ti-sports ath­lete Tenique Vin­cent placed sixth with 4,029 points.

In the boys' Oc­tathlon, T&T duo Je­re­mi Fran­cis and Ki­mani Kent did not fin­ish among the top three po­si­tions. Fran­cis was sev­enth with 4,654 points and Kent eighth with 4,457 in the eight-dis­ci­pline sport.

Kaleb Camp­bell copped sealed T&T's first medal on the sec­ond day of Carif­ta50, cop­ping a sil­ver medal in the boys' U-17 high jump with a clear­ance of 1.95 me­tres.

Their ef­forts matched day one's take of six medals, in­creas­ing T&T's medal haul to 12.

On Sat­ur­day, T&T col­lect­ed one gold, two sil­ver and three bronze. Matthew picked up his first medal, gold in the boys' U-17 long jump, Do­ri­an Charles in the boys' U-20 javelin, and Pey­ton Win­ter in the girls' U-17 shot put, each copped sil­ver and the three bronze came from Sanaa Fred­er­ick in the girls U-20 100m, Jai­di James in the boys' U-20 high jump and Hen­ry in the girls' U-17 100m.


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