Photo: Britnie Dixon won the 3000M Girls Open gold to add to her U-18 silver medal won on day one of the Carifta Games
The second day of the Carifta Games 2016 saw Edwin Allen’s Shannon Kalawan continued to improve over the one lap obstacle event producing a brilliant effort of 56.29 seconds to erase Camile Robinson’s Championship record of 56.61 set in 2003 on her way to claiming gold in the U20-Girls 400m Hurdles final. Her teammate Nicolee Foster held on for third in 58.34 seconds.
In the U18 Girls equivalent, Shian Salmon produced another record breaking effort to secure her second Gold medal of the Championship. She ran 59.50 seconds, erasing the old mark of 59.55 set last year by Junelle Bromfield. Sanique Walker came home in second with a time of 59.60 seconds.
In the Boys equivalent Dashinelle Dyer ran 54.05 seconds for third in the U18 Boys final, while Timor Barrette 51.79 seconds and Juavaney James 53.56 seconds were first and third respectively in the U 20 Boys final.
Kingston College’s Zico Campbell hurled the Shot, to a new mark of 17.75m to secure the Gold in the U-18 Boys Shotput final. He surpassed Trinidadian Isaiah Taylor mark of 17.56 m set last year. Teammate Rasheed Downer was also beyond the old record with a 17.57m effort to win the silver medal.
Britnie Dixon rebounded to win the Girls 3000m Open with a time of 10:16.90. She managed to hold off her teammate, Hydel’s Moniefa Green 10:17.00.
Keenan Lawrence also made amends in the Boys 3000m Open winning the gold medal in 9:05.71 seconds.
Akio Jones returned to cop the Gold in the U-18 Discus with a personal best effort of 46.49m and rounded out her campaign with 5th place in the Girls U 18 Javelin throw.
Female team captain Shanice Love outclassed the field to win the U-20 Girls Discus Final with a best effort of 52.05m. Devia Brown ensured it was another quinella for Jamaica winning the silver with a throw of 46.66m.
The male Team captain Obrien Wasome was second best in the Boys U20 Long Jump, with an effort of 7.52m. His teammate Shown-D Thompson was third in 7.45m. The gold went to Suriname’s Miguel Assen Van with 7.66m.
In the Boys U-18 Boys High Jump, Jamaica could only manage second and fourth courtesy of Jordon Kobe Rhooms 2:06m and John Micheal Davis 2.00m. Rhooms lost the gold medal in a jump off with Bahamian Jyles Etienne with the bar at 2.07m. Both had identical scorecards up to the end of competition at 2.06m. Kevin Nedrick produced a fifth best effort of 58.51m in the U20 Boys Javelin final.
In the U 18 Girls Long Jump final it was another 1-2 for Jamaica, with Brittany Anderson winning with 6.02m, ahead of Ania Ashley 5.94m.
Fullerton and teammate Zinedine Russell produced another quinella in the Girls Open Heptathlon. Fullerton totalled 4597 points to Russell 4524 points to close out their two day campaign.
Marcus Brown was second in the Boys Octathlon with a score of 5800, finishing just behind Bahamian Kendrick Thompson with 5849 points.
The sprint relays all went Jamaica’s way with first strike coming in the U-18 final. The team of Michae Harriot, Shaniel English, Dazray Freeman and Kimone Shaw on anchor won in 45.87seconds.
The Boys Team smashed the meet record of 40.52 seconds set in 2015 through a brilliant effort from the quartet of Michael Stephens,Christopher Taylor, Jhevaughn Matherson and Dejour Russel. They won in a new record time of 40.40 seconds.
The U-20 Girls sped to victory in a decent 44.30 seconds and the Boys closed the day with a fast finishing anchor effort by Akeem Bloomfield who brought them home in 39.74 seconds. This was just shy of the 39.38 record set back in 2014 by the then Jamaican unit.
Cemore Donald (2:16.76) and Chrissani May(2:17.03) will seek another quenelle in the U18 Girls 800m scheduled for day three. Anthony Cox (1:56.59 second) will do battle in the boys equivalent.
Junelle Bromfield will run off in the Girls U-20 final, with 1500m champion Shevan Parks going for the double in the Boys equivalent. He will be joined by Nathan Brown in that event.
The U-18 Girls 200m final will feature Brittany Anderson and Shaniel English. Michael Stephens will carry the nation’s hope in the U18 Boys event.
The U-20 Girls and Boys final will see single competitors for Jamaica through, Kimone Hinds and Andel Miller respectively. Nigel Ellis and Shanice Reid false started in the preliminaries of the U20 events.
Jamaica will make another attempt at a relay clean sweep when they contest the finals of the 4×400 meters relay for all divisions. The team closed day two with 29 medals, to push the current tally to 55. Jamaica will look to surpass the 85 medals won last year in St Kitts and Nevis. There are 22 finals scheduled for Monday’s Final day.
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