Jamaica won just one of the four sprint relay gold medals on offer on Sunday’s second day of the 53rd Carifta Games at the Kirani James Athletics stadium in St George’s, Grenada.

The girls’ Under-20 team of Renecia Edwards, Tiana Marshall and 100m medallists Natrece East and Shanoya Douglas were the sole winners, running 43.76 seconds to finish ahead of Trinidad and Tobago-44.17 seconds and Barbados-45.40 seconds.

The girls’ Under-17 and boys’ under-20 teams both grabbed silver medals but the boys’ Under-17 quartet failed to complete the race, dropping the baton on the second exchange.

Despite this, Jamaica dominate the medal table, leading with 43 medals- 15 gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze going into Monday’s final day of competition.

Trinidad and Tobago are second in the table with 25 medals- seven gold, nine silver and nine bronze, followed by the Bahamas with 21 medals- six gold, nine silver and six bronze.

Guyana are on five medals- three gold, one silver and one bronze and hosts Grenada are on 10 medals- two gold, two silver and six bronze, rounding out the top five.

Earlier, Jamaicans swept all four gold medals in the 400m hurdles while Javaughn Tomlin won his second gold medal, adding the Under-17 boys 3000m to the 1500m gold he won on Saturday.

Tomlin took over the race early and won going away, clocking 9:12.49, Bermuda’s Sanchez Smith took the silver medal with 9:22.24 and Barbados’ Zindzele Renwick-Williams took the bronze with 9:26.95.
Sushana Johnson was third in the girls’ open 3000m in 10:26.90, behind Trinidad and Tobago’s Aniqah Bailey- 10:14.10 and Barbados’ Laila McIntyre -10:15.61.

Jaquan Souden, who was fourth last year, took the silver medal in the boys’ Decathlon, tallying 6,760 points as Trinidad and Tobago’s Tyrique Vincent won the gold medal with 6,824 points and his teammate Kaleb Campbell was third with 6,598 points.

Michael Neil was third in the boys’ Under-20 high jump, clearing 2.00m, the same height as the winner, David Hall of Turks and Caicos and second place Joshua Williams of the Bahamas.

Dashanelle Clarke was third in the girls’ Under-17 long jump with 5.54m as Jazae Johnson of the Bahamas retained her title with 6.02m with her teammate taking silver with 5.70m.
-Paul A Reid