Trinidad and Tobago completed the second night of the CARIFTA Aquatics Championships at the National Aquatics Centre in Balmain, Couva, Trinidad by adding a pair of gold medals to their total, taking their overall gold-medal tally to 10.
The hosts won the girls’ and boys’ 15-17 400-metre medley relay events. T&T’s girls’ quartet of Keryn Burke, Catherine Dieffenthaller, Toni Rae Yates, and Olympian Zuri Ferguson clinched gold with a swim of 4 minutes, 27.77 seconds (4:27.77). The Bahamas came in second (4:31.55), beating Martinique (4:32.92) into third.
Ferguson had dominated the girls’ 15-17 100m backstroke field with a CARIFTA record-breaking time of 1:02.48. It was the second record-breaking feat for Ferguson as she set a new girls’ 15-17 50m backstroke mark on day one.
T&T swimmers Liam Carrington and Zuri Ferguson swam superbly on night two of the 2025 CARIFTA Aquatic Championships. They shattered two meet records en route to gold in back-to-back 100-metre backstroke events at the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couva, on April 20.
In the 15-17 girls 100m backstroke, Ferguson splashed to gold in a CARIFTA record-breaking time of 1:02.48.
Taking silver over two seconds behind was Jamaican Carolyn Levy-Powell (1:04.83), while US Virgin Islands’ Riley Miller (1:05.85) snared bronze.
This was Ferguson’s second CARIFTA record set at this year’s edition, having posted a new 15-17 girls 50m backstroke time of 29.23s on day one.
Carrington blasted to a CARIFTA record-breaking gold in 55.32s in 100m backstroke, as Jamaican Brady Lewison (58.67s) and Bahamian Ellie Gibson (59.45s) rounded the top three, respectively.
Carrington also won gold in the 15-17 boys 200m freestyle in 1:49.49. Coming in second was Aruban Perna Fernandes (1:53.60), with Bermudan Thomas Cechini (1:54.83) holding on to third place.
Later, T&T’s Marena Martinez and Taylor Marchan dominated the field and captured the one-two finish in the 13-14 girls 400m individual medley.
Martinez covered the gruelling distance in 5:35.79 and was closely followed to the finish line by compatriot Marchan, who finished in 5:37.71. Antiguan Anna DeGannes (5:38.88) came in third.
Marchan also swam to silver in the 13-14 girls 100m backstroke in 1:08.14. Jamaican Skyelar Richards (1:07.54)won gold, with Bahamian Skyler Smith (1:08.21) bagged bronze.
Grenada’s Jacob Collumore, in 26.07s, splashed to gold in the 13-14 boys 50m butterfly, T&T Shian Griffith took silver as he clocked 26.67s, and Cayman Islands’ Lev Fahy (26.69s) was third.
T&T’s Jadon Ramdeen earned silver in the 13-14 boys 400m individual medley at 5:03.12, while Cayman Islands’ Len Turnham-Wheatley (4:57.64) took gold.
In the 15-17 girls, 200m freestyle, Bajan Heidi Stoute (2:06.16), Grenadian Tilly Collymore (2.08.35), and Jamaican Alexandria Cogle (2:10.87) rounded the top three, respectively.
At the end of the second night of action, Bahamas led the way with 36 medals and 479 points, Jamaica 28 medals and 388.50, and T&T recorded 24 medals and 333 points.
