by Anmar Goodridge-Boyce
Barbados ended the 50th edition of the CARIFTA track and field games in Nassau, Bahamas, with a tally of 10 medals as the Under-17 girls 4x400-metre relay team produced an impressive performance on another night of silver lining for the 23-member team at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium.
The quartet of Kadia Rock, Ariel Archer, Chanecia Bryan and Aniya
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 …