Gold, New National Record & World Championships Qualification for Team Bahamas!

Adrian Griffith, Jamial Rolle, Trevorvano Mackey, Shavez Hart combined their efforts to break Bahamas’ 4x100m national record twice, first in the heats with 38.92, and then in the final with 38.77.

Shavez Hart brings home Bahamas for the men's 4x100m gold at the 2013 Central American & Caribbean Championships.

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XXIV CAC Senior Championships Update: Saturday 6th, 2013

The men's 4x100m lived up to their fantastic preliminary time. In an exciting race the men's 4x100m ran away with the GOLD medal with an impressive IAAF World Championships qualifying stand and NEW NATIONAL RECORD of 38.77 seconds. Second was Jamaica 38.86, third Trinidad 39.26. The Bahamian team was comprised of Adrian Griffith, Jamial Rolle, Trevorvano Mackey and Shavez Hart.

Trying to rebuild a dominant force known by the world in previous times, the women's quartet of Tayla Carter, Cache Armbrister, Debbie Ferguson-McKinzie and Nivea Smith took the bronze medal in the women's 4x100m relay. Their tume of 44.08 seconds followed Jamaica's 43.58, and Trinidad's 43.67.

In the finals of the men's 400m,  Bahamians Welsey Neymour and Latoy Williams had some disappointments.  First, Neymour was disqualified for a false star violation. The race then got underway and Williams did not finish. We still are left to find out whether he is healthy, and he was not available to comment.

On the field, national triple jump champion Tamara Myers proved why she had such a great season. Myers went on to win the women's triple jump with a leao of 13.18m, defeating Trinidad Olympian Ayanna Alexander by one centimeter 13.17m. This is a huge improvement fir Tamara as just in 2011 she had placed 6th at this CAC meeting.

National record holder Jeffery Gibson got through to the finals of the men's 400m hurdles winnng heat one of two. His time of 50.57 seconds is the forth fastest time to advance.For future updates you can check us out - http://www.facebook.com/tracksidebahamas
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XXIV CAC Senior Championships Update: Friday 5th July, 2013

With session one of the games completed, Team Bahamas had some notable performances as they got off to a good start.

In the men's 4x100m,  team Bahamas won heat 2 in the fastest time of the day of 38.92 seconds.  This time was not only setting the Bahamas up for the finals, but set a NEW NATIONAL RECORD! The team was set up in the racing order of Adrian Griffith on the lead off, Jamial Rolle 2nd, Trevorvano Mackey 3rd,  and anchored Shavez Hart.

In the women's 100m finals Cache Armbrister finished 5th in a time of 11.42 seconds and Debbie Ferguson-McKinzie 7th in 11.85 seconds. Both athletes had ran faster preliminary times of 11.35 and 11.42 respectively.  The event was won by Jamaican Sherry-ann Brooks 11.21 seconds.

Shavez Hart and Warren Fraser went into the finals with preliminary times of 10.16 and 10.19 seconds, ranking them 3rd and 5th. Shavez missed the IAAF World Championships Standard by .01. In the finals, both athletes didn't fear as well but still ran some impressive times. Hart finished 4th in 10.23 seconds, Fraser 8th in 10.30 seconds.  The event was won by Andrew Fisher of Jamaica 10.14 seconds.

With the withdrawal of long jump favorite Raymond Higgs, lone competitor for the Bahamas Rudon Bastian finished 6th overall. His best leap of the day was 7.55m. Winning the event was Alberto Alverez of Mexico 7.85m.

The women saw action in the preliminaries of the 400m. Lanece Clarke was 5th in heat 2 in a time of 54.38 seconds. Amara Jones was 4th in heat 1 in a time of 54.63 seconds. Neither women advanced to the finals.

Quartermilers Latoy Williams and Wesley Neymour both finished 2nd in their respective heats (1 & 2). Latoy's time of 46.50 seconds ranks him 3rd, and Wesley 46.66 seconds 5th heading into tomorrow's finals.

St. Lucia's Lavern Spencer had a huge performance in the women's high jump as she lept to a new championship record of 1.95m. Congratulations to the Lucian!

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