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By Anmar Goodridge-Boyce
Ashlyn Simmons and Layla Haynes were crowned CARIFTA champions after capturing gold medals for Barbados in the evening session of the region’s most prestigious junior track and field meet yesterday at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas.
In one of the most memorable moments of the games so far, Haynes lived up to huge expectations and fulfilled
Ashlyn Simmons and Layla Haynes produced glorious gold medal middle-distance performances for Barbados in the evening session of day one of the 50th CARIFTA Games at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. The team won two gold and one silver medal on the opening day of competition. Running in the first track final of the meet, 16-year-old Simmons executed an excellent race in the Under-17 girls’ 1 500 …
in Nassau Aragon Straker and Khristel Martindale led the Barbadian athletes advancing to Saturday afternoon’s 100 metres semi-finals of the 50th anniversary of the CARIFTA Games this morning in the Bahamas. Straker comfortably won the second heat of the Under-20 boys' 100 metres in 10.76 seconds at the Thomas Robinson Stadium. United States-based Martindale also secured a berth in the women's 100 metres by winning the first of three heats …
By Anmar Goodridge-Boyce
So far, so good.
Barbados enjoyed a decent start on the tracks in the opening session of the 50th edition of the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, Bahamas, with seven athletes advancing to the next round later tonight.
The proceedings started with a few showers and ended with clear skies and sunshine and the island’s fastest schoolgirl, Aniya Nurse, was the