• The 1st CARIFTA Games was held in Bridgetown, Barbados on April 1–4, 1972. An appraisal of the results has been given on the occasion of 40th anniversary...
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  • The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The games were first held in 1972 and...
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  • The 2nd CARIFTA Games was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on May 4–5, 1973. Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics...
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    The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) was an English-speaking economic trade organisation. It organised on 1 May 1968, to provide a continued...
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  • Kareem Streete-Thompson (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games)
    Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1989 CARIFTA Games and 1990 CARIFTA Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, he participated in the 100...
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  • Inez Turner (category 1972 births)
    the most outstanding athlete of the 1991 CARIFTA Games. She won the 800m gold at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Together with Lorraine Fenton, Deon Hemmings...
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  • Shermaine Ross (category 1972 births)
    not advance to the later rounds. She also represented Grenada at the CARIFTA Games earning 3 consecutive bronze medals from 1989 to 1991. Competing for...
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    Michelle Freeman (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games)
    the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1988 CARIFTA Games. She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida...
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    Kirani James (category Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games)
    15-year-old. He won a series of gold medals at the CARIFTA Games and the Commonwealth Youth Games and rose on the international stage with 400 m silver...
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  • Leleith Hodges (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics)
    newly inaugurated 1972 CARIFTA Games. At the age of nineteen she was chosen to represent Jamaica in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1972 Munich Olympics....
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  • distinguished into four main types: Multi-sport events, commonly referred to as games, where athletics events form part of a wider sporting programme World championships...
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  • Karlene Haughton (category 1972 births)
    Karlene Vivienne Haughton (born 18 October 1972 in Bethany, Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a Canadian retired athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She...
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    were sent to several editions of the CARIFTA Games, winning medals in 1977 and 1983. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the federation...
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    Olympic Games. Some of the most recognised sporting events in the world today are multi-sport events – the Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games, the Pan...
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  • Sheena Gooding (category Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games)
    for The Lodge School. She competed in the 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000 CARIFTA Games winning two silver medals and a bronze in the under-17 category and...
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  • since 1976 CAMEX, since 1986 CARIFTA Swimming Championships, since 1985 Bolivarian Games, since 1938 Bolivarian Beach Games, open water since 2012, for...
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  • Betty Lise (category 1972 births)
    September 1972 in Fort de France, Martinique) is a retired French triple jumper. She formerly represented Martinique in the CARIFTA Games, a Caribbean...
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    miles) of Curaçao's southern coastline. Curaçao participated in the 2013 CARIFTA Games. Kevin Philbert stood third in the under-20 male Long Jump with a distance...
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  • Mardrea Hyman (category 1972 births)
    Mardrea Hyman (born 22 December 1972 in Clarendon) is a Jamaican runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. 800 metres - 1:59.71 min (1998)...
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  • Jamil James (category Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Trinidad and Tobago)
    is a former Olympic sprinter who represented Trinidad and Tobago in the 1972 Munich Olympics. He attended the University of South Carolina - Columbia...
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    1968, Trinidad and Tobago joined the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA), which provided a continued economic, rather than political, linkage between...
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    within CARICOM (including being a founding member of CARIFTA and being the man behind the first 1972 Caribbean Festival of Arts)) and in the Commonwealth...
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    Andrew Tynes (category 1972 births)
    February 1972) is a retired Bahamian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. He won gold medals at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games and the...
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    national championships in 2013. He entered three events at the 2014 CARIFTA Games: he only managed fourth in the individual 200 m but claimed a silver...
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  • record holder.[citation needed] Powell had his first successes at the CARIFTA Games, where he won two silver medals in 1989, before taking the 200 metres...
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  • qualify for the first big regional track and field championships the Carifta Games. Carifta is usually hosted on Easter weekends and has produced many world-class...
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    Tobago. The Caribbean Community superseded the 1965–1972 Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) organised to provide a continued economic linkage between...
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    Antigua & Barbuda internationally at the time (silver medal at the 2015 CARIFTA Games), while Norman had represented the United States internationally (2...
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    forefront of regional integration efforts, spearheading the creation of CARIFTA and CARICOM. The DLP lost the 1976 Barbadian general election to the BLP...
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    Chris Brown (sprinter) (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games)
    relay. He also won a gold medal in the relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He is an alumnus of Norfolk State University. In 2005 he finished fourth...
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