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SUMMARY:Carifta Games
DESCRIPTION:Carifta Games 2025\n2025 Carifta Games logo\n\nThe 2025 CARIFTA Games will occur at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, from April 19 to April 21, 2025.\nBackground\nThe CARIFTA Games were founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association, and the first Games were held back in 1972 in Barbados. The CARIFTA Games is an annual sporting event that features many different athletic competitions. Those competitions include track & field, middle distance track competitions, sprint races, hurdle races, as well as many jumping, throwing and relay events.\nThe Games are split into two age categories, under-17 and 20. There are 27 countries participating.\nA Summary of the CARIFTA Records\nJamaica has dominated the medals table at the CARIFTA Games over the years and also the record books.\nJamaicans hold records in 10 of the 21 Under-20 boy’s events contested all time and hold or share 11 of the 17 Under-20 girl’s records. Jamaican boys own 9 of the 17 under-17 records, whilst their under-17 girls possess a remarkable 10 of 16 marks.\nThe oldest record in the books, though (at least for events still being contested in the modern Games), belongs to Bermuda’s Sonya Smith, whose Under-20 Javelin Throw performance of 53.98m has been on the books since 1979.\nThe oldest boys’ record is 15.03m, the winning distance for Lyndon Sands of the Bahamas in the Under-17 Triple Jump in 1980.\nKareem Streete-Thompson went on to become one of the world’s leading long jumpers, but his CARIFTA performances have earned legendary status. In 1989, he set an Under-17 Long Jump record with a leap of 7.83m, and a year later, his leap of 7.94m was an Under-20 record in his first year competing at that level for the Cayman Islands. Both marks remain untouched.\nThe Bahamas owns the girl’s long jump records. Jackie Edwards’ 1987 mark of 6.14m became the under-17 winning distance that year, and Daphne Saunders’ leap of 6.93m won her the 1989 under-20 title.\n\n
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