Guyana’s Raekwon Noel has copped five gold medals at the CARIFTA Aquatics Championship in Curaçao.
After winning the 1500m freestyle, 400m individual medley, 800m freestyle, and 200m butterfly in the 15-17 age group, Noel returned to win the 400m freestyle on day 2 of the championships on Sunday.
Raekwon Noel shows off one of five gold medals
Noel’s performance was dubbed the best by a Guyanese swimmer at the CARIFTA Aquatics Championship, which was first held in 1985.
Meanwhile, Guyana’s Anisha Gibbons, Jamaica’s Britannia Johnson, and Caymans’ Andrew Stone each won gold medals in Sunday’s morning session on day two of the 50th CARIFTA Games being held in Nassau, Bahamas.
Nineteen-year-old Gibbons, the defending champion, threw 47.96m on her very first attempt to win the Women’s U-20 javelin. Korann Corlet, 19, of French Guiana, won the silver with her best throw of 45.32m while 18-year-old Vanessa Sawyer of The Bahamas took home the bronze medal with a throw of 43.37m.
It was a 1-2 finish for the defending champions Jamaica in the Women U-20 shot put as 19-year-old Johnson established a winning mark of 14.54m. Her compatriot Britannie Johnson, also 19, won the silver medal with a throw of 13.74m.
The bronze medal went to St Lucia’s Joy Edward, 19, who put 13.53m to secure the final spot on the podium.
Anisha Gibbons successfully defended the title she won at the 49th CARIFTA Games in Jamaica last year
Meanwhile, Stone of the Cayman Islands produced a mark of 7.54m to win the U-20 long jump. The 17-year-old Stone was 10cm better than Jamaica’s Demario Prince, who took the silver with his best jump of 7.44m, the same as Mateo Smith of The Bahamas, who was third as the Jamaican had a better series. Prince’s second-best jump was 7.43m while Smith’s was 7.33m. Prince’s third-best effort was 7.37m to Smith’s 7.33m. (Modified Sportsmax report)
