BASSETERRE, St. Kitts –THE Tucker Clarke Primary School has maintained its first place footing in the 2012 RAMS Primary School Championships at the close of the second day of competition.
The championships is being held at the Silver Jubilee Stadium with the first day (Mar. 30) ending with both Cayon Primary School and Tucker Clarke tied at first place with two gold medals each.
During the second day, however, Tucker Clarke widened the two, ending the day with five gold medals and Cayon Primary trailing closely behind with four.
The Dr. William Connor and Sandy Point Primary Schools are tied at third position with three gold medals each. The Beach Allen Primary School won two gold medals with defending champion St. Pauls Primary as well as the Dean Glasford Primary School capturing one gold medal each.
The other participating schools received no medals as at the end of the second day.
St. Pauls Primary School will enter the final day of competition with a total medal count of 11 – the most in the competition thus far – having also won seven silver and three bronze medals. Cayon Primary is second overall with nine medals including three silver and two bronze medals, followed by the Tucker Clarke and the Dr. William Connor Primary Schools with eight medals each.
The number of records which were broken during this year’s championships has risen to six, five yesterday and one on the opening day.
Three were broken by Olujede Bridgewater last year’s VictrixLudorum. She ran the U-11 Girls 100m clocking a time of 13.91, 0.38 seconds better than the previous record. Bridgewater also ran the 200m in that category in 28.82 effectively shaving 0.57 seconds off the 2011 record.
Breaking the 2011 U-11 Girls Long Jump record of 3.98m, Bridgewater jumped an impressive 4.22m.
The 2011 1.34m record for the U-13 Girls High Jump was broken by Beach Allen Primary’s Giovanna Morton. Her recorded jump was 1.43m.
Sandy Point Primary’s Trishanie Warner’s performance in the U-9 Girls 150m broke the standing 2011 record of 23.38s, in a time of 22.77.
The athletes return to the stadium at 2:00 this afternoon for the final day of competition. Among the events expected to take place are the 4X400m, 200m and 100m finals.
