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With a tally of seven gold, nine silver and 11 bronze medals, and a combined total of  365 points, the Barbados swim team at the CARIFTA Aquatic Championships 23 in  Curaçao were 4th in overall points. Leading the Championships with a whopping 863 points was Bahamas, while Cayman Islands was second on 572 and Trinidad & Tobago in third with 407

Team Barbados won two more gold, one silver and three bronze medals to wrap up this outing at the 36th CARIFTA Aquatics Championships in Curacao. Overall, Barbados finished fifth with 474 points and fourth with 35 medals, comprising 10 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze. The Bahamas dominated the meet with 1 113 points, winning 85 medals (37 gold, 27 silver and 21 bronze), followed by Cayman Islands with 53 …

Heidi Stoute is the toast of the Barbados swim team after bagging three more gold medals at the 36th CARIFTA Aquatics Championships in Curacao. Team Barbados have so far won seven gold, nine silver and 11 bronze medals over the first three days of competition. And Stoute, who is competing in the girls’ 13-14 age category, has been in a class by herself. On Saturday night, she won individual gold …

Team Barbados won 11 medals, including three gold yesterday, the opening night of the 36th CARIFTA Aquatics Championships in Curacao. Heidi Stoute won gold in the 13-14 girls’ 800m freestyle (no official times available); Adara Stoddard took gold in the 15-17 girls 200m backstroke and the 13-14 girls’ 4x100m relay team was also in winner’s row. There were three silver medals, all in the 11-12 age category. Zachary Burke won …

Barbados’ swimmers put on a fantastic performance on Sunday, to climax the BASA Long Course National Championships, with Heidi Stoute and Brennan Watson displaying their stamina and skills to qualify for the CARIFTA Championships in the gruelling 800 metres freestyle. Needing to beat the 10:10.48 minutes among the girls’ 13-14 age category, Pirates’ Stoute cruised home in 9:33.53. Watson, also of Pirates, needed to go under a time 9:45.65 minutes …

Several national swimmers have made the qualifying standard at the 2023 Barbados Aquatic Sports Long Course National Swimming Championships which commenced yesterday evening at the National Aquatic Centre in Wildey.Among Barbados’ top junior swimmers making the qualifying standards in the freestyle and butterfly events for the 2023 CARIFTA Aquatics Championships scheduled for Curacao were Heidi Stoute (18:09.46) and Isabella Mayers (19:45.23) in the 1500 metres freestyle for 13 to 14 girls.Bre...

Barbados’ contingent ended the 34th edition of the Central American and Caribbean Amateur Swimming Championships (CCCAN) with a tally of 32 medals. On another encouraging night for the home team at the Barbados Aquatic Centre in Wildey, 11 year-old Amiya Harrison led the medal rush as she made a golden splash to win the 11-12 Girls’ 50 metres breaststroke event. The Harrison College student, triumphed in 38.08 seconds to beat …

Barbadian swimmers Jaiya Simmons, Tariq Greenidge and Victor Ashby enjoyed dream starts to their Carifta careers as they emerged as two of the host nation’s strongest chances for early medals at the conclusion of the opening session this morning at the 35th CARIFTA Swimming Championships at the Aquatic Centre. There was no rival for Simmons in the 11-12 girls’ 100m butterfly and she dominated her heat in a time of …

Amiya Harrison was the latest name added to the growing list of swimmers who qualified for next month’s CARIFTA Games. Harrison hit the mark with a powerful swim in the 11-12 Girls’ 50m breaststroke on Friday’s third day of the Barbados Aquatic Sports Association’s (BASA) Long Course Swimming Championships at the Aquatic Centre. Harrison clocked a CARIFTA “A” standard 37.51 seconds to win the race comfortably from Pirates’ Toria Alleyne, …

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