Cayman Islands swimmers and athletes do us proud at CARIFTA
Cayman Islands swimmers won 15 medals at the 2016 CARIFTA Swimming Championships, in Martinique.
They won 12 medals in the pool and three more in the open water portion of the competition.
Sabine Ellison’s 43 points were the second-highest total in the 11-12 year old girls division.
Day One
Holly Stradling – silver (800-metre freestyle)
Ria Plunkett – bronze (800-metre freestyle)
John Bodden – bronze (1,500-metre freestyle)
Sabine Ellison – gold (200-metre breastroke)
Day Two
Lauren Hew – gold (100-metre backstroke)
Sabine Ellison – gold (400-metre IM)
Day Three
Sabine Ellison – silver (200-metre IM)
Corey Frederick-Westerborg – bronze (200-metre IM)
Sabine Ellison – gold (50-metre breaststroke)
Cole Morgan, Edward Weber, Jonathan Key and John Bodden – silver (4x200m relay)
Day Four
Sabine Ellison – gold (100-metre breaststroke)
Lauren Hew – gold (200-metre backstroke)
Day Five – Open Water 5K
Catriona MacRae – Gold
John Bodden – Gold
Ria Plunkett – Bronze
Cayman Track results
Lacee Barnes and Dominic Dyer each won a pair of medals.
Barnes she won gold in the under-18 girls shot put and added silver in the discus.
Dyer won bronze in the boys under-18 1,500 and silver in the 3,000.
Daneliz Thomas won the under-18 girls javelin throw with a distance of 45.97 metres.
Jamal Walton won silver in the boys under-20 400-metres with a time of 46.23 seconds, a World Junior Championships qualifying time.
Rasheem Brown won a bronze medal in the boys under-18 110-metre high hurdles with a time of 14.05 seconds.