St Kitts and Nevis: Staff Unstoppable SKN has copped three silver medals within the 2024 CARIFTA Video games following the tip of the second day. Athletes equivalent to Jaheem Clarke, Akanye Samuel-Francis, and Jermadh Huggins received the second place in several occasions and made the crew secured the spot within the prime 10 groups of the video games.
The medal rely for St Kitts and Nevis has been opened by Jaheem Clarke as he secured the primary silver for the crew. He participated within the Beneath-17 Males Javelin and completed within the second place with a private finest throw of 56.09m.
The second silver medal was added by Akanye Samuel-Francis to the medal tally of the crew of St Kitts and Nevis. He received the second place within the Beneath-17 Male- 400m hurdles and ran with a private better of 52.88 seconds on Sunday night.
With this victory, he has now develop into the two-time CARIFTA medalist as he received the gold medal within the class was received by Samuel Francis of the Bahamas who recorded a time of 54.14 seconds in 2023. He ran behind Robert Miller of Jamaica who received the primary place with 52.19 seconds and defeated Franciso Williams of Jamaica who secured third place.
Samuel Francis may even take part within the Beneath 17 Male 110m hurdles on Monday at 9:30 am which is the third day of the event.
The third winner for St Kitts and Nevis was Jermadh Huggins who received a silver medal within the 1500m on the finals of the Open Males Octathalon on the 2024 CARIFTA Video games. He stopped the clock at 4: 37: 67 and received two out of eight occasions within the Octathalon consisting of 100m, Lengthy Leap, Shot Put, 400m, 110m hurdles, Excessive Leap, Javelin, and the 1500m.
Firstly, Huggins stood on the 8th place firstly of the occasion after which moved to the second place on the finals of the occasion. Notably, he missed the rostrum within the 50th version of the CARIFTA as he completed the sport in 4th place.
The three victories enhanced the medal tally of the Staff Unstoppable SKN and made the athletes stand on the podium of the 51st version of the CARIFTA Video games.
St Kitts and Nevis has been represented by 24 athletes on the CARIFTA Video games which is underway on the Grenada, beginning Sunday and can run by April 1, 2024. From the Unstoppable SKN contingent, Abjiha Nemdhari participated within the U17 Male Javelin and completed in fourth place with a throw of 54.10m.
One other athlete named De’ Cheynelle Thomas secured fourth place within the woman’s U17 400m finals on the CARIFTA Video games with a time of 56.19 seconds. She additionally superior to the women’ U17 800m finals which will probably be held on Monday at 4:55 pm.
Joeltica Rogers secured sixth place within the Beneath 17 400m hurdles with a time of 1: 11.04 on the CARIFTA Games. Regardless of a troublesome fall firstly of the occasion, Niran Warde completed in eighth place on the 400m hurdles with a time of 1: 05.90.
Jaylen Bennet additionally represented St Kitts and Nevis and took part within the U20 Male 400m occasion. He secured sixth place with a time of 48.34 seconds. He may even take part within the U20 Male 200m occasion.
Dr Denzil Douglas- Minister of International Affairs prolonged greetings to the winners and performers of the crew.
The 2024 CARIFTA Video games are underway at Kirani James Stadium, Grenada and the primary place within the medal tally has been captured by Jamaica following the tip of the second day. The crew received 24 gold medals, 15 silver and 10 bronze medals. The whole medal tally of the crew stood at 49 medals.
Additional, the Bahamas received seven gold medals, 9 silver, and 9 bronze medals, making the crew stand on the second place. The third place was clinched by Guyana with 4 gold and one bronze medal.
