{"id":6718,"date":"2016-03-27T02:40:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2016-03-27T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:55:03","slug":"jamaica-day1-2016-carifta-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/sports\/2016\/03\/jamaica-day1-2016-carifta-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica won 26 Medals on Day 1 of the 2016 CARIFTA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamaica has won 25 medals\u00a0on Day 1 of the 3-Day 2016 CARIFTA Games<\/a> in St. George\u2019s, Grenada \u2014 March 26-28.<\/p>\n

Team Jamaica has won 10 gold, 11 silver\u00a0and 5\u00a0bronze medal so far. See the medallists and watch the track and field events linked below:<\/p>\n

2 – Gold and Silver won by Shiann Salmon<\/strong> and Lamara Distin<\/strong> in the Girls High Jump UNDER 18<\/a><\/p>\n

Lamara Distin and Shiann Salmon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Silver –\u00a0Kevin Nedrick\u00a0– <\/strong>Boys Discus Throw UNDER 20 $\"KevinNedrick\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
2 – Silver and bronze Lushane<\/strong> Wilson<\/strong> and **Romario Douglas<\/strong> – Boys High Jump UNDER 20.<\/p>\n**
$\"LushaneWilson-Romario-Douglas-Boys-High-Jump-UNDER-20\"$ <\/a>
Silver – Lushane Wilson, Gold- Jermaine Francis, St. Kitts and Nevis and bronze -Romario Douglas – Boys High Jump UNDER 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Bronze won by **Aiko Jones<\/strong> in Girls Shot Put UNDER 18<\/p>\n**
2 – Gold and Silver – Janell Fullerton<\/strong> and **Sahjay Stevens<\/strong> in Girls Shot Put UNDER 20.<\/p>\n**
$\"Sahjay$ <\/a>
Sahjay Stevens (JAM),\u00a0Janell Fullerton (JAM) and\u00a0Chelsea James of Trinidad and Tobago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
2 – Gold – Silver – Cemore Donald<\/strong>, **Britnie Dixon<\/strong> –** **Girls 1500 Meter Run UNDER 18<\/a><\/p>\n**
1 – Silver – **Keenan Lawrence<\/strong> – Boys 1500 Meter Run UNDER 18<\/p>\n**
1 – Gold – **Asshani Robb<\/strong> –** **Girls 1500 Meter Run UNDER 20<\/a><\/p>\n**
2 – Gold – Silver – Shevan Parkes<\/strong> and **Kristoff Darby<\/strong> –** **Boys 1500 Meter Run UNDER 20<\/a><\/p>\n**
$\"Shevan-Parkes-$ <\/a>
Silver, Kristoff Darby (JAM); Gold -Shevan Parkes , Boys 1500 Meter Run at CARIFTA 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
2 – Silver and Bronze – Jessica Noble<\/strong>, **Tissanna Hickling<\/strong> – Girls Long Jump UNDER 20<\/p>\n**
$\"Silver,$ <\/a>
Silver, Grenda; Gold – Stacey-Ann-Williams (Jam); bronze – Bahamas – Girls 400 Meter Dash UNDER 18 Finals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Gold — **Stacey-Ann-Williams<\/strong> —** **Girls 400 Meter Dash UNDER 18 Finals<\/a><\/p>\n**
1 – Gold – **Christopher Taylor<\/strong> –** **Boys 400 Meter Dash UNDER 18 Finals<\/a><\/p>\n**
$\"Christopher$ <\/a>
Silver, Antoni Hoyte-Small of Barbados; Gold, Christopher Taylor of Jamaica; bronze, Onal Mitchell of Trinidad and Tobago in Boys 400m U-18 at CARIFTA 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Bronze – **Tiffany James<\/strong> — Girls 400 Meter Dash UNDER 20<\/p>\n**
$\"Tiffany$ <\/a>
Tiffany James wins bronze in Girls 400 Meter Dash UNDER 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Gold- **Akeem Bloomfield<\/strong> –** **Boys 400 Meter Dash UNDER 20 Finals<\/a><\/p>\n**
$\"Siver,$ <\/a>
Siver, Jamal Walton of Cayman Islands; Gold, Akeem Bloomfield of Jamaica; bronze, Kinard Rolle of Bahamas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
1 – Gold – **Kimone Shaw<\/strong> –** **Girls 100 Meter Dash UNDER 18<\/a><\/p>\n**
2 – Gold – Silver – Jhevaughn Matherson<\/strong>, **Dejour Russell<\/strong> –** **Boys 100 Meter Dash UNDER 18<\/a><\/p>\n**
1 – Silver – **Patrice Moody<\/strong> – 11.68 – Girls 100 Meter Dash UNDER 20<\/p>\n**
2 – Gold – Bronze – Nigel Ellis<\/strong>, **Raheem Chambers<\/strong>–** **Boys 100 Meter Dash UNDER 20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"**
Jamaica has won 25 medals\u00a0on Day 1 of the 3-Day 2016 CARIFTA Games in St. George\u2019s, Grenada \u2014 March 26-28. Team Jamaica has won 10 gold, 11 silver\u00a0and 5\u00a0bronze medal so far. See the medallists and watch the track and field events linked below: 2 – Gold and Silver won by Shiann Salmon and Lamara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[451,499,502,501,500,458,518,521,520,515,504,498,516,517,519,503,497,510,522],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-2016-carifta","tag-aiko-jones","tag-asshani-robb","tag-britnie-dixon","tag-cemore-donald","tag-christopher-taylor","tag-janell-fullerton","tag-jessica-noble","tag-keenan-lawrence","tag-kevin-nedrick","tag-kristoff-darby","tag-lamara-distin","tag-lushane-wilson","tag-romario-douglas","tag-sahjay-stevens","tag-shevan-parkes","tag-shiann-salmon","tag-stacey-ann-williams","tag-tissanna-hickling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}