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Kareem Streete-Thompson went on to become one of the world's leading horizontal jumpers, but his CARIFTA performances have earned legendary status. In 1989, he set an Under-17 Long Jump record with a leap of 7.83 m, and a year later his 7.94 m was an Under-20 record, in his first year competing at that level for Cayman Islands.
The 6th CARIFTA Games was held in Bridgetown, Barbados on April 25–26, 1977. For the first time, the Austin Sealy Award was presented to the athlete adjudged the most outstanding, either in terms of record accomplishment, or quality of performance as compared to other top medallists.
The Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games was awarded to Kareem Streete-Thompson from the Cayman Islands. [2] [3] He won a gold medal in long jump with a remarkable jump of 7.83m, which is still the championships record, a silver medal in 100m, and a bronze medal in 200 metres in the youth (U-17) category.
The other games record was set by Jamaican Kimberly Williams in the girls' youth (U-17) triple jump competition achieving 12.53m (-0.6 m/s). [4] Moreover, a total of seven national records were set by the junior athletes. [2] In the men's category, Ronald Forbes set the 400 metres hurdles record for the Cayman Islands to 53.63 seconds.
Further records were set by James Baird from Antigua and Barbuda in 9:10.97 in the 3000 metres event, and by Matthew Palmer from Jamaica in 13.14s (wind: -0.7 m/s) in 100 metres hurdles. Finally, in the girls' U-20 category, Anneisha McLaughlin from Jamaica set two new records: in a 200 metres heat, she finished in 23.03 seconds (wind: -1.8 m/s ...
The new games record in the girls' U-20 category was set by Natoya Goule of Jamaica running the 1500 metres in 4:27.48. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] In the boys' U-17 category, Jahazeel Murphy of Jamaica set two new games records, one in the 200 metres in 20.97s (1.4 m/s), [ 5 ] [ 8 ] and the other by leading the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team to 40.76s.
A total of 4 new games records were set. In the boys' U-20 category, Grégory Gamyr from Martinique achieved 18.11 metres in shot put. [5] [9] In the boys' U-17 category, Theon O'Connor from Jamaica set the new 800m games record to 1:53.72. [5] [10] The 4x400 metres relay team from Trinidad and Tobago set the new games record to 3:15.09. [5] [11]
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win , 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.