Jamaica top medal table at CAC Championships

Jamaica athletes are returning from the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Senior Track and Field Championship in Puerto Rico after topping the medal table.



The Jamaicans ended the three-day meet with a medal-haul of 26 comprising 10 gold, 6 silver and 10 bronze. Mexico finished in second place with 19 medals comprising seven gold, six silver and six bronze.



Ten medals were won by Jamaica on yesterday’s final day including four gold.



Vonette Dixon won the women’s 100-metre hurdles in 12.77 seconds; Eric Kedoo won the men’s 110-metre hurdles in 13.49 and Korene Hinds took the women’s 3,000 metre steeplechase in 9:54.67 seconds.



Jamaica’s other gold medal on the final day came from the women’s 4 x 400-metre relay team. The quartet of Andrea Sutherland, Shereefa Lloyd, Natoya Goule and Patricia Hall won the event in 3:29.86 seconds.



Jamaica had to settle for the bronze medals in the men and women’s 200 metre finals.



Jason Young clocked 20.78 seconds for third place in the men’s 200 metres, which was won by Michael Mahieu of the Bahamas in 20.60.



And Anastacia Leroy clocked 23.13 for her third place in the women’s 200 metres. Nivea Smith of the Bahamas won the gold medal in 22.80 ahead of her teammate Anthonique Strachan, who clocked 22.90.



Other bronze medals for Jamaica on the final day came from Wilbert Walker in the men’s triple jump, Peaches Roach in the women heptathlon and the men’s 4x400 metre-relay team.