National Records highlight VI’s Carifta Games
Additionally to the Medal haul, which was less than expected, three National Youth and National Jr. Records, in the U18 Boys 400m Hurdles, U18 Girls 4x100m Relay and the Heptathlon, fell and an IAAF World Jr. Championships qualifier reached on Sunday’s second day of the 3-day competition.
Tynelle Gumbs gave the BVI its second medal on during the morning session, when she earned an U20 Girls Discus Throw bronze with a heave of 40.45m, the second best mark of her career.
However she failed to match up to her U17 Gold in the 2012 Games and U20 Silver from 2013, when she finished 5th in the Javelin, throwing 37.90.
On Sunday afternoon, Kyron McMaster put the disappointment of Saturday night’s sixth place finish in the 400m final behind to snatch bronze in a National Jr. Record time of 52.85 seconds in the U18 Boys 400m Intermediate Hurdles. It was only his third time running the event after he placed third in his heat in 56.08 to reach the final.
McMaster became the second IAAF World Jr. Championship qualifier in the competition joining Huggins who on Saturday night, added the 100m to her 200m qualifier from early in the season.
In the BVI’s final event of Sunday evening, the quartet of Zacharia “Zakie” Frett, Kala Penn, L’Tisha “Lea” Fahie and Huggins, won the Territory’s fourth bronze when they finished third behind Jamaica and the Bahamas in the U18 Girls 4x100m Relay, with a National Jr. Record time of 46.30 seconds. The mark eclipsed the 46.62 ran at the Leeward Islands Invitational in 2013.
Huggins, who became the BVI’s most prolific Carifta Games medalist with seven, breaking a tie with both Keita Cline and Chantel Malone who bagged six each, won her 200m heat in 23.6 seconds hand time on Sunday evening, to qualify for her third successive final.
She had to settle for 4th, setting a new National Record with her time of 23.91
Before taking up 4x100m Relay duties on the second leg, Kala Penn came seventh in the Long Jump after cutting the sand at 5.60m aided by a +2.6 mps breeze, while Ashley Penn was 18th after a 4.95m effort.
Two time bronze medalist Lakeisha Warner qualified for the U18 Girls 800m final, after running 2 minutes 17.81 seconds to finish third in her heat, but despite running a faster time of 2:15.84 had to settle for a 4th place finish.
Arianna Hayde continued the stellar performances of debutants when she finished seventh overall in the Heptathlon with a National Youth and National Jr. Record of 3,769 points, which came after winning her 800m heat in 2 minutes 40.39 seconds.
In the U18 Boys High Jump, Tahj Malone cleared 1.90m to place ninth overall. Tarique Moses had a non qualifying time of 2:04.23 in the U20 Boys 800m.
6 Responses to “National Records highlight VI’s Carifta Games”
The hurdle height is youth and not junior. So in my humble opinion
Our 2 hurdlers did NOT QUALIFY