CARIFTA Games… : Greene leaps to bronze to take Guyana’s medal count to 5

Medals were mostly out of reach for the Guyanese contingent, except one, on the third and final day of the 52nd CARIFTA Track and Field Championships in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Monday.
Several Guyanese athletes lined up for the final of their respective events, but things were not going the Guyanese way. That was until Rodel Greene took to the triple jump pit in the afternoon session.

Greene leaped to a personal best 15.50m to clinch Guyana’s third bronze medal at the regional event. The Jamaica duo of Chavez Penn and Michael Edwards kept to 16.14m and 15.66m for the gold and silver respectively.
Meanwhile, in the Under-17 Boys’ 800m final, Bryson Anderson crossed the finish line sixth, clocking 2:01.66. The gold medal was won by Trinidad and Tobago’s Brion Scott in 1:58.72. Jamaica swept the remainder of the podium positions through Luke Plummer and Yohance Carty, who clocked 1:58.03 and 2:01.41 respectively.
In the U20 version of that event, the Guyanese pair of Javon Roberts and Kaidon Persaud, both medallists in the U17 version of the event in years past, were unable to make it to the podium, finishing fifth and sixth respectively. Roberts registered 1:52.53 while his compatriot clocked 1:52.56. Shavan Jarrett of Jamaica snatched gold in 1:51.19, Grenada’s D’Angelo Brown second in 1:51.21 and Barbados’s Aaron Morris third in 1:51.90.

Over in the Boys’ U20 200m final, Walton Alleyne gave a good account of himself, but clocked 21.60s. That was only good enough for seventh place. Barbados’s Jayden Green crossed the line in 20.93s for first place, while the Jamaican duo of Tyreece Foreman and Junior Gallimore stopped the clock at 20.95s and 21.01s for second and third respectively.
Two more Guyanese competitors set their sights on the Boys’ U20 5000m title, but it was not to be as Cory Anthony clocked 17:46.64 for 8th place and his teammate, Timothy Smith found himself disqualified from the race. Aruba claimed the top two spots in the event with Wyndel and Christian Jansen stopping g the clock at 15:58.94 and 15:59.99 respectively.
Over in the relay events, two Guyanese quartets set out to make a last grasp at medals in the Boys’ U17 and U20 400 events.
The U17 team had a combined effort of 3:26.46, only good enough for fifth place in the event’s final. The Bahamian quartet claimed the gold medal in 3:12.72 while Jamaica and Barbados completed the podium with times of 3:13.28 and 3:15.95.
In the Boys’ U20 version of the event, Guyana’s team stopped the clock at 3:10.54 for fifth place. The race was won by Bahamas’ team in 3:06.18, followed by Jamaica in 3:07.44 and Trinidad and Tobago who competed the podium in 3:08.11.
At the end of the weekend’s events, Guyana came away from the 2025 CARIFTA Games with five medals: one gold, one silver and three bronzes.