Robert Bailey, Freelance WriterJamaica's Kendese Nangle won her second record performance and won her second gold medal at the 2007 CARIFTA Swimming Championships on Sunday at the National Stadium pool.
Despite this feat, defending champions the Antilles of French Guyana(AGF) maintained the leading position, amassing 488.50 points with The Bahamas (BAH) in second place on (457) , Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) (434.50) third and Jamaica fourth (353).
Nangle established her second record of the championship when she won the girls' 11-12 100m backstroke event (1:11.17).
Meg Fisher-Wells of the Cayman Islands (CY) also won her second gold medal of the championships, taking the girl's 15-17 100m backstroke in (1:09.84). Fisher-Wells then returned to capture the girl's 400m Individual Medley (IM) in a record time of (5:14.31), erasing the previous mark held by Cayman Olympian Heather Roffey.
Jamaica's team of Brittany Kenny, Nangle, Raynae Hall and Alexia Royal-Eatmon won their second relay gold medal of the championship when they won the girls' 11-12 400m medley relay in (4:58.67).
Cherelle Thompson of (T&T) won the girls 13-14 50 butterfly in (30.74), while Bria Deveaux (BAH) captured the girls 11-12 400m IM in 5:38.70).
Branden Whitehurst of US Virgin Island (USVI) won two gold medals for his country. He won the boy's 15-17 400m (IM) in (4:44.89). and the 15-17 boy's 200m freestyle in (1:55.22) ahead of Aruba's Mickey van der Vaart (1:56.86) and (CY) Brett Fraser(1:58.62).
Vereance Burrows (BAH) won the boys' 15-17 50m butterfly in 25.39 seconds, while Valy Pelagie of (AGF) captured the boys' 11-12 200m freestyle in (2:09.33). Evante Gibson of (BAH) won the boys' 50m butterfly in (28.44).