JAMAICA'S Brad Hamilton claimed his third gold medal on Saturday's third day of the CARIFTA Swimming Championships when he won the 13-14 boys' 100 metres freestyle in a time of 53.69 secs to erase the mark set by Trinidad & Tobago's Nicholas Bovell three years ago.
Hamilton had on Friday completed a multiple, individual gold-medal performance when he won the 13-14 boys' 200 free in 1 min, 59.84 secs, and then clocked 1 min, 00.82 secs to win the 100 fly.
Another Jamaican, Rene Wright, won the 13-14 girls 100m freestyle on Saturday in 1:01.79.
Grenada's Tuesday Watts also distinguished herself with a triple gold medal-winning performance.
Watts, who won the 11-12 girls' 200 metres freestyle with a time of two minutes, 16.40 seconds on Friday's first full day of competition, followed up with wins in the 100 metres backstroke in a time of 1 min, 14.08 secs, 200 metres individual medley (2 mins, 37.07 secs), and 100 metres freestyle clocked at 1 min, 04.20 secs.
Watts' victories carried Grenada's gold medal tally at the Championships to five that includes Samantha La Qua's gold in the 11-12 girls' 200 metres breaststroke with a time of 3 mins, 02.13 secs on Friday.
Heather Roffey, whose own triple gold medal-winning performance on Friday put Cayman Islands out front, increased her personal tally to five.
Eclipsing record
She won the 15-17 girls' 200 IM in a time of 2 mins, 27.99 seconds and the 200 metres butterfly with a record time of 2 mins, 18.87 secs to elipse her two-year-old mark by just over three seconds.
Roffey's was one of four individual records that were condemned to a watery grave on Saturday.Her teammate Shaune Fraser established a new mark in the 17-17 boys' 200 fly with a clocking of 2 mins, 08.95 secs, just under a second below Bahamian Jeremy Knowles' five-year-old standard.
He also won the 100 back in a time of 1 min, 01.37 secs to complete a double gold performance on Saturday.
Barbados' Bradley Ally clinched the other record when he was clocked at 2 mins, 08.15 secs to shave a few one-hundredths of a second off the record of Caymans' Andrew Mackay to win the 15-17 boys 200 IM.He completed a double gold medal performance when he won the 15-17 boys 100 free in a time of 53.51 secs.
Two other double gold medal winners were Netherlands Antilles' Rodion Davelaar and The Bahamas' Alana Dillette.Davelaar won the 13-14 boys' 100 back in 1 min, 05.35 secs and took the 200 IM in 2 min, 19.24 secs, while Dillette took the 15-17 girls 100 back in a time of 1 min, 09.79 secs and the 100 free in 1 min, 00.65 secs.
Other winners in the 100 back were Allard Tjon Lim Sang of Suriname in the 11-12 boys (1:10.30) and Jessy Ortole of French Guiana in the 13-14 girls (1:11.46).
Winners of the 200 IM also included Christian Homer of Trinidad & Tobago in the 11-12 boys (2:35.88) and Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace of The Bahamas in the 13-14 girls (2:34.65).
