Fireworks are expected in Monday’s finals of the 200m races on the final day of the 51st Carifta Games at the Kirani James Stadium in St George’s, Grenada.

Three 100m champions will be seeking to complete the sprint double while Guyana’s girls’ Under-20 400m champion Tiana Springer will face arguably the most competitive field when she lines up in the 200m final.

Jamaica’s Under-20 girls’ 100m champion Sabrina Dockery (23.10 seconds; 0.9m/s) and 4x100m relay gold medallist Shanoya Douglas (23.16 seconds; -0.3m/s) both ran personal best times to be the fastest qualifiers. They will be challenged by Springer; defending champion Sanaa Frederick of Trinidad and Tobago, who ran 23.66 seconds (-0.3m/s); and her twin sister Sole Frederick who ran 23.18 seconds (0.5m/s).

Barbados’ Aragorn Straker was the only runner under 21.00 seconds in the Under-20 boys’ semis after he ran 20.86 (0.6m/s). The Jamaican duo of Gary Card (21.11 seconds; 0.9m/s) and Johan-Ramaldo Smythe (21.21 seconds; 1.1m/s) as well as repeat 100m champion Davonte Howell of the Cayman Islands, who ran 21.09 (0.6m/s), will challenge for medals.

Natrece East, the bronze medallist in the 200m last year who sat out the 100m on Saturday, leads the qualifiers for the Under-17 girls’ 200m finals with a wind-aided 23.91 seconds (2.2m/s). She will face off against Guyanese 100m champion Athaleyha Hinckson, who ran 24.05 seconds (0.4m/s); 100m medallist Aniya Nurse of Barbados, who clocked 24.68 in qualifying and Sashana Johnson, the other Jamaican also advancing to the final.

Jamaica’s Oshane Jervis was the second fastest qualifier in the Under-17 boys’ 200m with 21.78 seconds (0.8m/s), beaten in his semi-final race by Trinidad and Tobago’s 100m silver medalist Kadeem Chinapoo (21.68 seconds). The other Jamaican, Byron Walker ran 22.23 seconds (-0.1m/s) to also progress to the medal race.

-Paul A Reid