Defending champion and 2024 Austin Sealy Award winner Janae De Gannes was dethroned in dramatic fashion at the 2025 Carifta Games on Sunday night, as her Trinidad and Tobago teammate Gianna Paul produced a lifetime-best leap of 6.48m to win the U20 girls’ long jump title in a thrilling head-to-head battle.
Jamaica reasserted its regional sprint dominance by capturing three of the four 4x100m relay titles to close out an electrifying second day of the 52nd Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday night. In a show of consistency and crowd-pleasing resilience, the host nation claimed medals in all four relays to keep their home supporters on their feet at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
The second day of the 2025 Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago featured a display of regional middle-distance dominance as Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago each completed 1-2 finishes in the U17 3000m races on Sunday. The morning session also saw commanding performances in the field, with the Bahamas sweeping the top two spots in the U17 girls' long jump and Jamaica delivering a 1-3 finish in the U17 boys' shot put.
On a thrilling Sunday night at the 2025 Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago, Michelle Smith of the U.S. Virgin Islands extended her regional dominance by capturing a fourth consecutive 400m hurdles title, while Jamaica’s Robert Miller delivered a breakout performance to win his first U20 gold.
Jamaica's Robert Miller and Princewell Martin stamped their authority on the U20 boys’ 400m hurdles during Sunday morning’s session at the 2025 Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago, recording the two fastest times heading into the final.
Defending champion Michelle Smith of the U.S. Virgin Islands signalled her intent to rewrite the Carifta Games record books on Sunday morning with a commanding performance in the preliminary round of the U20 girls’ 400m hurdles at the 2025 edition of the Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
Jamaica extended its medal tally with two more gold medals during Sunday morning’s session of the 2025 Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago, but the headlines were also shared by two rising stars from the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made it emphatically clear on Saturday that any talk of retirement at the end of the 2025 season is premature — and she let her performance do most of the talking.
Romelda Aiken-George etched her name deeper into netball history on Sunday, becoming the most-capped player in ANZ Championship/Super Netball history with 233 appearances. However, the Jamaican star was left with little to celebrate as the Adelaide Thunderbirds were outclassed by the New South Wales Swifts in a high-stakes top-of-the-table clash at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
Jamaican Olympic relay gold medalist Briana Williams walked away from Saturday’s Mt SAC Relays with a renewed sense of purpose and optimism after winning her 200m heat in 23.25 seconds, despite running into a stiff headwind of -2.4 m/s.
