Trinidad and To­ba­go start­ed day two (East­er Sun­day) of the 2024 Carif­ta Games at the Ki­rani James Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um, St George’s, Grena­da sev­enth on the medal stand­ings af­ter rak­ing in sev­en medals (four sil­ver and three bronze) on Sat­ur­day.

Tyrique Vin­cent's first-round jump of 7.00 me­tres in the boys' Un­der-17 long jump event was the lead­ing mark for most of the com­pe­ti­tion un­til Ba­hamas' Joshua Williams sur­passed his ef­fort dur­ing the sixth and fi­nal at­tempt. The Ba­hami­an pro­duced the win­ning leap of 7.03 me­tres to snatch the gold medal.

How­ev­er, the re­sult was de­layed due to a protest from the Cay­man Is­lands, how­ev­er, it was up­held and rat­i­fied with the bronze medal be­ing se­cured by Rodee­ki Wal­ters of Ja­maica.

Sprint­er Kadeem Chi­nap­po’s sil­ver in the boys’ un­der-17 100-me­tre race was one of three medals won on the track. Chi­napoo raced to the fin­ish line in 10.59 sec­onds be­hind Ja­maica’s gold medal­list, Ny­ron Wade who won the event in 10.43 sec­onds. The bronze medal was won by an­oth­er Ja­maican, Ma­like Nu­gent in 10.74 sec­onds. T&T's sec­ond ath­lete in that fi­nal was Cameron Nathaniel Pow­ell, who fin­ished fifth in 10.87 sec­onds.

Keneisha Shel­bourne was a sil­ver medal­list in the girls’ un­der-20 triple jump. Shel­bourne, an un­der-20 high jump bronze medal­list in 2023, in Nas­sau Ba­hamas switched her fo­cus to the long jump for this year's edi­tion and pro­duced a dis­tance of 12.49 me­tres on her sec­ond at­tempt to hold the sec­ond po­si­tion. The event's even­tu­al gold medal­list was Ja­maica's Richelle Stan­ley, who opened her com­pe­ti­tion with a 12.58m leap which none of the oth­er chal­lenges could con­quer. Ja­maican De­janae Bruce se­cured the bronze with a dis­tance of 12.20 me­tres.

T&T al­so cel­e­brat­ed sil­ver in the girls’ un­der-17 shot put, a re­peat per­for­mance by Pey­ton Win­ter who al­so placed sec­ond last year.

Win­ter opened with a 13.15 me­tres heave to lead the field from rounds one to three. How­ev­er, in the fourth round, the even­tu­al win­ner, Ja­maica’s Jamelia Young took the lead with 14.25 me­tres and nev­er sur­ren­dered it on her way to se­cur­ing the gold medal. Ter­rell Mc­Coy of the Ba­hamas took the bronze with her best throw of 14.11 me­tres.

T&T’s three bronze came via the tal­ent­ed Shi­an Lewis, who in the un­der-17 girls’ 1500 me­tres fi­nal when clocked 4:48.58 sec­onds. The event was won by Ja­maica’s Dal­lia Fair­weath­er in 4: 45.86 sec­onds with coun­try­woman Alikay Reynolds third in 4: 46.14 sec­onds.

In the un­der-20 girls’ 1500 me­tres test, T&T's Kayleigh Forde crossed in 4:41.71 sec­onds to snatch the bronze as Ja­maica claimed a 1-2 in the event with gold for Rick­eisha Simms in 4:31.94 and sil­ver for Kay­deen John­son at 4:32.49.

Ear­li­er in the day Vin­cent’s twin sis­ter Tenique won bronze in the girls’ un­der-17 high jump. Vin­cent cleared the bar at 1.68 me­tres while the event was won by Za­vien Bernard who cleared the 1.71 m mark on her first at­tempt and Ba­hami­an Alexan­dria Ko­mo­lafe need­ed two tries to clear the same height fin­ish­ing in sec­ond po­si­tion.

On East­er Sun­day morn­ing, T&T’s Keer­an Sriskan­dara­jah and Jah­fa Wood­ley head in­to Mon­day’s Boys’ Un­der-20 800 me­tres race as the two fastest qual­i­fiers fol­low­ing their per­for­mances in the pre­lim­i­nary rounds at the Carif­ta Games in St George’s, Grena­da on Sun­day morn­ing.

Wood­ley upped the ante in the event’s sec­ond heat out of three when he clocked 1: 54.92 sec­onds to win and claim one of two au­to­mat­ic spots avail­able in the fi­nal. Ja­maica’s Yoshane Bowen claimed the oth­er au­to­mat­ic spot, plac­ing sec­ond in 1:55.32. And one non-au­to­mat­ic spot went to Grena­da’s Dean­ge­lo Brown who fin­ished in 1:55.47 sec­onds.

How­ev­er, in heat three, T&T's Sriskan­dara­jah pro­duced the fastest over­all time be­hind a con­trolled 1:54.70 sec­onds run to al­so win his heat.

He was fol­lowed by Bran­don Hinds of Bar­ba­dos in 1:55.05 and a non-au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­er Javon Roberts of Guyana, third in 1:55.64.

The boys’ un­der-20 800m fi­nal will take place at 5:25 pm on Mon­day.

Be­fore that, T&T will have rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the girls’ and boys’ 800m un­der-17 fi­nals.

Bronze medal­list in the girls’ 1500 me­tres on Sat­ur­day, Lewis re­turned in the 800 me­tres run and placed sec­ond in 2: 21. 16 sec­onds in heat one, giv­ing way to Ja­maica’s Kevon­gaye Fowler, who won in 2:17.04 sec­ond and fol­lowed home by Ba­hamas’ Jade Knowles in 2:22.21 in third place. The medals for this event will be de­cid­ed on Mon­day at 4:45 pm.

Brion Scott will al­so chase a top-three medal in the un­der-17 boys’ fi­nal at 5:05 pm, af­ter he stormed to third place in the pre­lim­i­nary round, heat two on Sun­day in 2:01.94 sec­onds.

It was enough for one of three au­to­mat­ic spots. Kaidon Per­saud of Guyana was first in 1:59.81 fol­lowed by Ja­maica’s Ale­jan­dro Palmer in 2:01.12 sec­onds.

De­spite fin­ish­ing fourth, a non-au­to­mat­ic spot went to Jay­lon St Louis of Grena­da in 2:02.19 sec­onds.

Mean­while, the 2023 Com­mon­wealth Youth Games sil­ver medal­list Jai­di James fin­ished just out­side of the medals in the boys' un­der-20 long jump when he fin­ished fourth with a best dis­tance of 6.78 me­tres in the fi­nal. Ja­maica's Rick­oy Hunter pro­duced a sen­sa­tion­al win in the event, pro­duc­ing 7.48 me­tres on his fi­nal at­tempt to over­take the pre­vi­ous leader, Bernard Kemp from the Ba­hamas who mea­sured 7.40 me­tres.

Bronze in the event to Teon Haynes of Bar­ba­dos with 7.32 me­tres.

Day 1 Medal Count

Coun­try*Gold*Siv­er*Bronze*To­tal

1. Ja­maica*12*9*7*28

2. Ba­hamas2*3**2*7

3. Guyana3*0*0*3

4. Guade­loupe*1*1*0*2

5. An­tigua and Bar­bu­da1*0*2*3

6. Trinidad and To­ba­go*0*4*3*7

7. Grena­da*0*1*2*3

8. St Kitts and Nevis*0*1*0*1

9. Aru­ba*0*1*0*1

10. Turks and Caicos*0*0*1*1

11. Bermu­da*0*0*1*1

12. Mar­tinique*0*0*1*1

13. Bar­ba­dos*0*0*1*1