— as Team Guyana wins three more medals on penultimate day
In a rare and historic feat, standout athlete, Anisha Gibbons, completed her third successive gold medal performance at the CARIFTA Games yesterday in The Bahamas.
Gibbons recorded her best throw yesterday of 47.96m in her very first attempt to earn back-to back-to-back top of the podium finishes at the annual showpiece event.
In front of a raucous crowd at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, the 19-year-old, who is enjoying a scholarship education in the US, bested silver medalist from French Guiana, Korann Colet (45.32m) and The Bahamas’ Vanessa Sawyer (43.37m) who finished with the bronze.
It was a fitting end to cap Gibbons’ competitive career at the Regional Games. Guyana’s Attoya Harvey also stood on the podium yesterday, snatching a silver medal in the Women’s 3000m Open event.
Harvey clocked 10:45.74s to finish behind Jamaica’s Kaydeen Johnson (10:41.11s). The Bahamas’ Akaya Lightbourne finished third in 10:47.01s.
According to reports, triple jumper, Ezekiel Saul completed Guyana three-medal haul on day two by hopping, skipping and jumping to a bronze medal in the Men’s Triple Jump U-17 event. His official leap was still unavailable up to press time.
Meanwhile, sprinters Ezekiel Newton and Tianna Springer progressed to the final of their respective 200m events today.
Seon Booker, bronze medalist in the Men’s 1500m U-20 event on Saturday also booked his place in the Men’s 800m final today with the seventh fastest qualifying time.
In the field, long jumpers, Tamara Harvey and Trevon Hamer were not as fortunate and failed to make it to the medal ceremony.
Hamer, finished eighth in the Men’s Long Jump U-20 with a leap of 6.58m for the event which was won by Cayman Islands’ Andrew Stone in 7.54m.
The curtain will come down on the 50th edition of the three-day event tonight.
