After two electrifying days of competitors on the NACAC Championships in The Bahamas, Jamaica has secured 18 medals—six gold, 5 silver, and 7 bronze—inserting them second on the desk heading into Sunday’s remaining day.
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America leads with 22 medals (12 gold, eight silver, and two bronze), whereas the host nation, The Bahamas, sits third with 5 medals, together with three gold.
For a lot of Saturday, Jamaica held the higher hand, briefly main the People six gold to 5, earlier than the USA surged again to shut the day in entrance. The battle between the 2 regional powerhouses now units the stage for an exciting conclusion.
Silver and bronze pile up
Jamaica added depth to its medal tally with a string of silver and bronze medals throughout the monitor and discipline.
Christopher Taylor captured silver within the males’s 200m, clocking 20.32 seconds—simply shy of the qualifying mark of 20.16 seconds. Canada’s Aaron Brown edged him for gold in 20.27 seconds, whereas Puerto Rico’s Jose Figueroa took bronze in 20.53 seconds. Kadrian Goldson of Jamaica completed seventh in 20.88 seconds.
Within the males’s 400m hurdles, Jamaica secured a silver–bronze double: Malik James-King (48.28secs) positioned second, with Assinie Wilson (48.75secs) third. The occasion went to American CJ Allen, who received in 48.22 seconds.
Sanique Walker earned silver within the ladies’s 400m hurdles, clocking 54.94 seconds, whereas teammate Janieve Russell completed seventh in 56.58 seconds. The gold went to Barbados’ Tia-Adana Belle in 54.67 seconds.
Nayoka Clunis added one other silver within the ladies’s hammer throw, with a distance of 69.30m.
Within the ladies’s 200m, Gabrielle Matthews picked up bronze with a time of 23.02 seconds, behind Bahamian Antonique Strachan’s 22.77 seconds. Roneisha McGregor was seventh in 23.38 seconds.
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Kelly-Ann Beckford, Jamaica’s nationwide 800m champion, additionally collected bronze in 2:00.17 minutes, although she fell wanting the World Championships entry mark of 1:59.00 minutes.
Taylor’s report run steals the highlight
Whereas Jamaica’s medal rely swelled on Saturday, the efficiency of the day got here from Tyrice Taylor within the males’s 800m. The nationwide champion delivered a shocking run for bronze in 1:43.74 minutes, breaking the Jamaican report and surpassing the automated World Championships qualifying commonplace of 1:44.50 minutes.
Taylor’s effort secured him a ticket to Tokyo, marking a monumental leap from his earlier world rating of 81st, properly outdoors the qualifying prime 56. “This implies all the things—I lastly have the usual, and I can’t await Tokyo,” Taylor stated after the race.
His teammate Navasky Anderson, the earlier report holder, additionally impressed with a private better of 1:44.18 minutes for fourth. The occasion was received in spectacular vogue by St. Vincent’s Handal Roban, previously of Jamaica Faculty, who stormed dwelling in 1:42.87 minutes, a brand new NACAC report.
Golden basis on opening day
Jamaica’s medal cost had been launched on Friday with a flurry of 4 gold medals and several other podium finishes.
Fedrick Dacres opened the floodgates with gold within the males’s discus, throwing 65.10m. Teammate Chad Wright additionally earned bronze with 62.85m.
Amoi Brown claimed the ladies’s 100m hurdles in 12.83 seconds (-1.1 m/s), the one athlete to interrupt the 13-second barrier. Canada’s Tatiana Aholou was second in 13.01 seconds, whereas Jamaica’s Yanique Thompson positioned fifth in 13.19 seconds.
Demario Prince stored Jamaica on prime with gold within the males’s 110m hurdles, operating 13.35 seconds forward of American Dylan Beard (13.39). Jamaica’s Jaheim Stern claimed bronze in 13.63 seconds.
Sprinter Jonielle Smith then stormed to victory within the ladies’s 100m in 11.05 seconds (0.1 m/s). Teammate Jodean Williams was an in depth fourth in 11.13 seconds.
Jamaica additionally secured silver by means of Ryiem Forde, who ran 10.01 seconds within the males’s 100m, narrowly crushed by Canada’s Jerome Blake in 9.95 seconds.
