2010 CARIFTA Games explained

XXXIX CARIFTA Games
Size:	200px
Dates:	April 3–5
Stadium:	Truman Bodden Sports Complex
Nations Participating:	24
Athletes Participating:	about 427 (234 junior, 193 youth)
Events:	66 (35 junior (incl. 5 open), 31 youth (incl. 1 exhibition))
Records Set:	13 games records
Level:	Junior and Youth
Previous:	2009 Vieux Fort
Next:	2011 Montego Bay

The 39th CARIFTA Games was held in the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in George Town, Cayman Islands, on April 3–5, 2010. A detailedreport on the results was given.

Records

In total, 13 new games records were set.

Event	Record	Athlete	Type
Boys Under 20 (Junior)
400 m	45.02s	Kirani James	CR
5000 m	14:34.34	Kemoy Campbell	CR
110 m hurdles	13.41s (1.3 m/s)	Jehue Gordon	CR
400 m hurdles	49.76s	Jehue Gordon	CR
Shot put	18.67m	Quincy Wilson	CR
Discus throw	63.11m	Chad Wright	CR
Girls Under 20 (Junior)
100 m hurdles	13.42s (0.5 m/s)	Samantha Elliot	CR
Boys Under 17 (Youth)
200 m	20.84s (1.2 m/s)	Odean Skeen	CR
400 m hurdles	52.75s	Stephen Newbold	CR
Shot put	16.99m	Chadrick Decosta	CR
Discus throw	52.99m	Fedrick Dacres	CR
Girls Under 17 (Youth)
High jump	1.85m	Akela Jones	CR
400 m	53.36s	Shaunae Miller	CR

Key:

AR — Area record CR — Championship record NR — National record

Austin Sealy Award

The Austin Sealy Trophy for themost outstanding athlete of the games was awarded to Jehue Gordon ofTrinidad and Tobago. He won two gold medals in the 110 mhurdles and the 400 m hurdlescompetition in thejunior (U-20) category setting new games record in both events,and a bronze medal withthe 4 × 400 m relay team of Trinidad and Tobago.

Medal summary

Medal winners and complete results can be found on the CFPI Timing website, and on the World Junior Athletics History website.

Boys under 20 (Junior)

100 metres (0.8 m/s)		10.44		10.48		10.50
200 metres (0.8 m/s)		20.76		20.90		21.29
400 metres		45.02 CR		46.59		46.80
800 metres		1:52.16		1:53.31		1:53.45
1500 metres		3:48.99		3:59.21		4:02.81
5000 metres		14:34.34 CR		15:45.28	/	16:16.30
110 metres hurdles (1.3 m/s)		13.41 CR		13.75		13.76
400 metres hurdles		49.76 CR		51.50		52.23
High jump		2.14		2.11		2.11
Pole vault		4.20		3.60		3.40
Long jump		7.62 (−0.1 m/s)		7.34 (−0.1 m/s)	/	7.24 (−0.3 m/s)
Triple jump		15.91 w (2.2 m/s)	/	15.49 (1.6 m/s)		14.67 (1.3 m/s)
Shot put		18.67 CR		18.41		18.19
Discus throw		63.11 CR		62.95		58.24
Javelin throw		63.41		63.24		60.24
Heptathlon		4586		4264		4234
4 × 100 metres relay		40.10		40.41	Javon Rolle Trevorvano Mackey Ulysses Hinsey Geno Jones	40.99
4 × 400 metres relay	Dwayne Extol Jermaine Gayle Donahue Williams Demar Murray	3:10.63	Earle Rahming Alonzo Russell O'Jay Ferguson Nejmi Burnside	3:10:69	Osei Alleyne-Forte Deon Lendore Jonathan Holder Jehue Gordon	3:11.59

: Open event for both junior and youth athletes.

Girls under 20 (Junior)

100 metres (0.7 m/s)	11.50		11.51	11.57
200 metres (0.5 m/s)	23.29		23.83	23.85
400 metres	53.71		53.96	54.04
800 metres	2:06.03		2:08.97	2:11.76
1500 metres	4:36.34		4:42.13	4:46.03
3000 metres	10:41.28		10:43.61	10:47.84
100 metres hurdles (0.5 m/s)	13.42 CR		13.55	14.21
400 metres hurdles	58.58		59.09	59.84
High jump	1.80		1.76	1.73
Long jump	6.03 (−0.1 m/s)		6.02 (−0.4 m/s)	5.86 (0.3 m/s)
Triple jump	12.64 w (2.1 m/s)		12.54 (0.8 m/s)	12.10 (0.3 m/s)
Shot put	13.38		13.06	12.40
Discus throw	46.07		43.43	39.55
Javelin throw	42.61	/	40.97	37.64
Pentathlon	3825	/	3443	3285
4 × 100 metres relay	45.06		45.59	45.69
4 × 400 metres relay	3:37.15		3:37.32	3:41.30

: Open event for both junior and youth athletes.

Boys under 17 (Youth)

100 metres (0.6 m/s)	10.53	10.71		10.84
200 metres (1.2 m/s)	20.84 CR	21.27		21.55
400 metres	48.01	48.62		48.99
800 metres	1:54.66	1:55.79		1:56.64
1500 metres	4:08.28	4:12.37		4:12.82
3000 metres	9:10.12	9:10.80		9:23.00
100 metres hurdles (1.0 m/s)	13.28	13.29		13.55
400 metres hurdles	52.75 CR	53.87		56.26
High jump	1.98	1.98		1.85
Long jump	6.72 (1.2 m/s)	6.68 (−1.4 m/s)		6.66 (−0.7 m/s)
Triple jump	14.86 (0.8 m/s)	14.78 w (2.4 m/s)	/	14.78 (0.9 m/s)
Shot put	16.99 CR	16.32		16.18
Discus throw	52.99 CR	50.80		42.23
Javelin throw	57.86	57.86		57.74
4 × 100 metres relay	41.62	42.00		42.26
4 × 400 metres relay	3:16.30	3:17.53		3:20.31

Girls under 17 (Youth)

100 metres (0.7 m/s)		11.74		11.96		12.01
200 metres (2.5 m/s)		23.64 w		23.80 w		24.26 w
400 metres		53.36 CR		53.71		53.89
800 metres		2:11.86		2:13.42		2:13.60
1500 metres		4:43.33		4:43.45		4:44.87
100 metres hurdles (4.1 m/s)		13.64 w		13.69 w		13.97 w
300 metres hurdles		42.16		42.51		42.62
High jump		1.85 CR		1.74		1.68
Long jump		5.64		5.47		5.28
Triple jump	/	11.79 (0.1 m/s)		11.71 (−0.6 m/s)		11.68 (0.6 m/s)
Shot put		11.46		11.09		10.96
Discus throw		34.79		34.57		30.98
Javelin throw		36.71	/	34.59		31.27
4 × 100 metres relay		45.98		46.66	Devynne Charlton Shaunae Miller Pedrya Seymour Marvar Etienne	46.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Saqukine Cameron Olivia James Marlene Eubanks Shericka Jackson	3:44.02		3:46.61	Rachante Colebrooke Pedrya Seymour Shaunae Miller Dannielle Gibson	3:48.86

: Exhibition event.

Medal table (unofficial)

An (official) medal count was published. However, there are a couple of mismatches to the unofficial count as displayed above:

The official count does not contain the results (gold for Dominica, silver for Martinique, bronze for Jamaica) for the girls' U-17 javelin throw which is dubbed as "exhibition event".
The official count displays 8 bronze medals for Bermuda, but only one bronze medal for Guadeloupe. This is not reflected in the results.
The official count displays 37 gold and 13 bronze medals for Jamaica. If this was correct, there would be 66 gold medals, 65 silver medals, and 64 bronze medals in total (disregarding the results for the girls U-17 javelin throw). Again, there is no evidence for this in the results.

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the CFPI Timing, and on the World Junior Athletics History website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 427 athletes (234 junior (under-20) and 193 youth (under-17)) from about 24 countries: