Jamaican Junior Athletes top CARIFTA Games 2008
March 25, 2008
Jamaica’s junior athletes produced another colossal display and strode to an unchallenged 24th consecutive medal-topping performance as the 37th CARIFTA Games ended last night.
Propelled by championship records from distance runners Natoya Goule and Kemoy Campbell, the Jamaicans won 11 of the 22 gold medals during the last session of the three-day meet at the Jubilee Stadium.
They piled up 69 medals, comprising 29 gold, 25 silver and 15 bronze to overwhelm the opposition again. Trinidad and Tobago placed second with 30 medals, 10 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze, and the Bahamas collected eight gold, three silver, and 12 bronze to finish third with 23 medals. Barbados placed next on the medal grid in fourth place with 26 medals, seven gold, 10 silver and nine bronze, followed by Martinique with 14 medals (5-3-6), and Grenada with eight (3-2-3).Goule, who had won the 1500-metre gold on Friday, smashed the Under-20 Girls’ 800-metre record with a superb run in two minutes 05.90 seconds. She easily outgunned Trinidad and Tobago’s Afiya Walker (2:10.20) and Jessica James (2:11.07).
Goule’s effort lowered the 10-year-old mark of 2:06.83 by T&T’s Melissa de Leon as she brilliantly completed a CARIFTA Games 800/1500 double for the fourth year in a row.
Goule had done the U-17 middle-distance double in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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