KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Sabrina Dockery and Nyron Wade won two of the four 100m gold medals on offer at the end of Saturday’s first day of the 51st Carifta Games at the Kirani James Stadium in St George’s, Grenada.

Dockery ran a big personal best 11.26 seconds (0.3m/s) to upset teammate Theianna Lee Terrelonge in the U-20 girls final while Wade equalled his lifetime best 10.43 seconds to win the U-17 boys’ title. Devonte Howell of Cayman retained the U-20 boys’ title while Athaleyha Hinckson of Guyana won the U-17 girls’ crown.

Dockery got off to a bullet start and held on to beat pre-championships favourite Terrelonge – 11.32 seconds, reversing last week’s Girls Class 2 final at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls championships in Kingston.

Geolyna Dowdye of Antigua Barbuda, who had just missed medals in her last four major finals, was third with 11.64 seconds.

Wade had little problems in winning the U-17 boys event ahead of Trinidad and Tobago’s Kadeem Chinapoo – 10.59 seconds as Malike Nugent was third with 10.74s.

Hinckson clocked 11.44 for the Girls U-20 title to beat Jamaica’s Adora Campbell (11.52 seconds) and Aniya Nurse of Barbados in 11.76 seconds.

Howell ran a personal best and national junior record 10.15 seconds (0.5m/s) in a historic one-two for the Cayman Islands with Jaiden Reid taking the silver with 10.34 seconds, the same time given to Jamaica’s Javorne Dunkley.

Meanwhile, Jamaica led the medals tables after the first day with 26 medals, 12 gold, eight silver and six bronze, Guyana were next with four, including three gold and a bronze while Bahamas, Antigua/Barbuda, Grenada, Cayman and Guadeloupe also got a gold medal each.

–          Paul A Reid