The British Virgin Islands (BVI) finished the 49th edition of the CARIFTA Games ranked 3rd out of 20 listed countries, after tying with the Bahamas for the second most gold medals collected at the event.
The BVI finished with a total of 7 medals, including 4 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.
The team just missed out on the second place ranking to the Bahamas who tied also with 4 gold medals, however their silver medal count of 6 saw them edging the BVI to take that number 2 position.
The host team Jamaica finished as the number 1 ranked team of the Games with 45 gold, 29 silver and 18 bronze to total 92 medals.
The star athlete for the BVI was 16-year-old Adaejah Hodge who also created CARIFTA Games history for the territory, to become the first ever athlete from the BVI to receive the Austin Sealy Award after finishing with 3 gold medals.
That award of which the likes of Olympians such as Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Veronica Campbell, Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller and Barbados’ Obadele Thompson have all received, is the most pivotal award of the games and is presented to the athlete adjudged the most outstanding, either in terms of record accomplishment, or quality of performance as compared to other top medalists.
Hodge dominated each of her three events in the Girls Under 17 categories, including the 100 meters, 200-meters and the long jump event.
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