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JEREEM Richards and Keshorn Walcott were among the TT athletes who showed their class at the Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) as they both won gold medals in San Salvador, El Salvador on Thursday.
It was a memorable day as the TT athletes added five medals to their tally – three gold and two silver.
TT's overall medal tally at the games is now 17– seven gold, six silver and four bronze.
Richards, not running in his men’s 200-metre pet event, showed his quality in the 400m distance copping gold in a personal best time of 44.54 seconds.
The TT runner won the event comfortably slowing down at the end. Second-placed Michael Joseph took the silver medal in 44.90 and Gilles Biron of Martinique was third in 45.06.
Richards was jubilant after the win as he celebrated like footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
Richards does not run the 400m individual event regularly as he focuses mostly on the 4x400m relay and the 200m event.
[caption id="attachment_1024675" align="alignnone" width="452"] CAC GOLD: National sprinter Jereem Richards who added to his medal cabinet when he won gold in the 400m finals at the CAC Games in El Salvador on Thursday night (TT time). FILE PHOTOS - Manish Swarup[/caption]
Walcott continued to have a commendable season as he copped gold with a top throw of 83.60m. The TT thrower has thrown over 80 metres consistently over the last month which includes meets in Europe prior to the CAC Games. Walcott threw the spear 77.68m on his first attempt, before his gold medal throw in the second round. His other completed throw was a 76.90m effort on his fourth throw.
The field was not a world class one as many of the best javelin throwers are from Europe and those athletes don’t compete at CAC Games.
Mexican David Carreon, who bagged silver, was more than five metres behind Walcott with a 78.03m throw on his third attempt.
Jamaican Elvis Graham earned bronze with a 76.43m heave in his first throw.
TT also won two medals in the 4x100m relay events as the men won gold and the women snatched silver.
In the men’s 4x100m final, the TT quartet of Kion Benjamin, Devin Augustine, Carlon Hosten and national 100m champion Eric Harrison Jnr took gold in 38.30. TT almost broke the CAC games record of 38.24, which TT have held since 2010.
[caption id="attachment_1024674" align="alignnone" width="708"] TT chess player Joshua Johnson, left, copped silver at the Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. - courtesy Ministry of Sport and Community Development Facebook page[/caption]
The Dominican Republic team of Erick Sanchez, Yancarlos Martinez, Christopher Valdez and Jose Gonzalez came second in 38.61 and the Venezuelan squad of Alexis Nieves, David Vivas, Bryant Alamo and Rafael Vasquez ended third in 39.13.
The experienced Reyare Thomas, along with youngsters Sanaa Frederick, Akilah Lewis and Leah Bertrand took silver for TT in 43.43. Dominican Republic were a close third in 43.45 which included athletes Darianny Jimenez, Liranyi Alonso, Anabel Medina and Marileidy Paulino.
Cuba were crowned champions as Yarima Garcia, Yunisleidy Garcia, Laura Moreira and Enis Perez clocked 43.17.
In the women’s shot put final, Cherisse Murray of TT finished fifth after throwing 16.59m. Rosa Ramirez of Dominican Republic won gold with a 17.89m throw.
Joshua Johnson, who is one of many chess players representing TT, copped silver in his CAC debut.
Alexi Ramirez finished 19th in two hours, 54 minutes and nine seconds in the women’s road race cycling event.
In women’s volleyball, TT lost 25-15, 25-18 and 25-22 to Mexico in the fifth-eighth place classification. TT will play in the playoff for seventh place on Saturday at 11 am TT time.
In netball, the national team continued their form on Thursday night with an easy 90-12 win over Cayman Islands with Afeisha Noel starring for TT converting 32 of 36 shots.
Shaniya Morgan was also impressive for the Calypso Girls scoring 38 out of 50 attempts. TT were scheduled to play Jamaica on Friday night after press time.
Nikoli Blackman of TT did not start the open water swimming 10K event.
 
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