CARIFTA Round Up

Jamaica’s CARIFTA Swimming Squad is scheduled to arrive in the country 1:40p.m. after placing sixth on the medal table in the four-day Championship in Aruba.



Jamaica ended the Games with 32 medals including eight gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze. That haul puts Jamaica fifth in the points’ standings with 571 point five-nil.



Six of Jamaica’s medals including three gold were mined last night.



Timothy Wynter led the way for Jamaica last night by taking the Boys’ 11 to 12 200-metre backstroke in a meet record of two minutes 23 point nil-nine erasing the previous record mark of two minutes 28 point nine-three he set earlier in the Preliminary Round.



The time was also a National Age-Group record.



The other gold medals came from Danielle Boothe in the Girls 11-12 100-metre Breast Stroke and Britanny Kenny in the Girls 13-14 200-metre Back Stroke.



Trinidad and Tobago emerged champions with a medal haul of 67 including 31 gold, 14 silver and 22 bronze.



The Trinidadians gathered 815 point five-nil points to win easily ahead of Barbados, 691 point 5 five-nil and Guadeloupe 603.