Barbados didn’t fare well in the evening session on the second day of the 47th Flow CARIFTA Games at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium here Sunday night.
The Barbadian athletes gained just one silver and a bronze medal to push their overall medal tally to six − one gold, two silver and three bronze.
Kyle Gale got a silver in the Under-17 Boys’ 400 metres hurdles with a time of 54.45 seconds as he pipped Bahamian Raymond Oriaki (54.54) on the line to finish behind Jamaican gold medal winner Devonte Archer (52.85).
Barbados also captured a late bronze medal through the Under-20 Boys’ 4×100 metres relay quartet of Nathan Ferguson, Antoni Hoyte-Small, Matthew Clarke and anchor Kuron Griffith.
They clocked 40.43 seconds to just hold off host country, Bahamas as Jamaica (39.56) and Trinidad and Tobago (40.29) gain gold and silver.
It represented a clean sweep of all four 4×100 relays for Jamaica.
Despite the completion of the relays, the Under-20 Boys’ javelin, featuring Barbadian Zion Hill, was still in progress.
In the morning, Shanice Hutson struck gold for Barbados in the Under-17 Girls’ discus with a throw of 41.56 metres. (EZS)