CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Jamaica’s athletes accentuated their regional dominance with a sweep of all 200 metres and three of the four 800 metres and 1600-metre relay titles in a riveting climax to the 38th CARIFTA Games on Monday night.

In striding to an awesome 25th consecutive medal-topping display at the regional meet, the Jamaicans gathered 67 medals – 39 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze medals – to finish the four-day meet at the George Odlum Stadium firmly on top of the medal table.

Trinidad and Tobago, with nine gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze medals, finished runners-up, followed by Barbados (4-9-8).

Hosts St Lucia finished fourth with their best-ever haul of four gold and two silver medals.

Jamaica’s half-lap victories included an Under-17 record run by Jahzeel Murphy in 20.97 seconds.

In completing the sprint double, Murphy smashed the previous mark of Jamaican Dexter Lee of 21.09 two years ago.

Shericka Jackson won the Girls’ U-17 200 in 23.62 to add to her 400-metre record victory, while World Youth and Junior Championship medallist Nickel Ashmeade won the Under-20 Boys’ 200 in a wind-assisted 20.56 and Jura Levy took the Girls’ event in 23.20, toppling Bahamian defending champion Nivea Smith, who took silver in 23.36.

Ashmeade won ahead of his team-mate Ramone McKenzie (20.60), while 100-metre champion Shekeim Greaves, of Barbados, pulled up with an injury.

Regional junior middle-distance superstars Gavyn Nero and Natoya Goule each remarkably recorded their 10th CARIFTA Games gold medal triumphs.

Competing in the senior 800-metre events, Trinidad and Tobago’s Nero stopped the clock at one minute 51.75 seconds to win the Under-20 Boys’ title, shortly after Jamaican Goule had landed the Girls’ U-20 two-lap event in 2:09.27.

Both were completing double victories after capturing 1500-metre gold on Friday evening.

Nero’s win denied Jamaica a sweep of the 800-metre titles.

He measured his race perfectly, sitting behind leaders for most of the event before launching a winning run 200 metres out.

He collared the front-running Bermudian Aaron Evans (1:52.54) entering the homestretch and stayed clear to the finish. Kadeem Smith, of St Kitts and Nevis, was third 1:54.45.

As an Under-17, Nero had won two 3 000-metre titles and gold medals at 800 and 1500 metres and since moving up to the senior (U-20) division, he has taken the 800/1500-metre double three years in a row.

Goule outclassed her field and won ahead of her Jamaican team-mate Ristananna Tracey (2:10.08).

Also dominant from her U-17 days, Goule has now copped five 1500m and five 800m CARIFTA Games gold medals.

Jamaicans Chris-Ann Gordon and Waquar DaCosta took the U-17 800-metre titles.

Gordon (2:11.43) beat the Barbadian pair of Shani Adams (2:13.22) and Sonia Gaskin (2:13.80) in the Girls’ event and DaCosta (1:55.70) won the Boys’ equivalent over Barbadians Antonio Mascoll (1:56.32) and Jerrad Mason (1:57.13)

Overseas-based Barbadian Kierre Beckles, last year’s Austin Sealy award winner, was far superior to her rivals in the U-20 Girls’ 100-metre hurdles, clocking a fine wind-assisted (2.6 mps) 13.31 as she came home a lonely winner, chased by Bahamian Ivanique Kemp (13.78) and Jamaican Kaymarie Jones (13.95).

Trinidad and Tobago’s Jehue Gordon copped gold for the second day in a row when he won the U-20 110-metre hurdles in 13.86 seconds to add to his record run in the 400-hurdles on Sunday.

The junior sprint hurdles titles both went to Jamaicans, Keenan Davis taking the Girls’ event in 14.15 seconds over Barbadian Sade Greenidge (14.20) and Stefan Fennell landing the U-17 Boys’ gold in a fast 13.00 seconds, an automatic qualifying time for the World Juniors.

The Jamaicans closed the meet in style with a burst of relay wins although Trinidad and Tobago denied them a fitting end with a victory in the U-20 Boys’ 4×400.

Jamaica opened the mile relays with a meet record 3:38.09 in the Girls’ U-17 event and then landed the Boys’ U-17 in 3:16.53 and the Girls’ U-20 in 3:36.21.

But their bid for the sweep was snapped by T&T U-20 Boys’ team, whose final-leg runner ran past the Jamaican to get gold in 3:10.20. Jamaica finished second in 3:11.49.

Jamaican Kemoy Campbell, narrowly beaten by Nero in the 1500 final on Saturday, rebounded with a championship record in the 5 000 metres.

He bettered his own 2008 mark (14:46.51) to clock 14 minutes 40.67 seconds in a lopsided win over Delohnni Samuel, who gave St Vincent and the Grenadines their only medal when he clocked 15:42.51 for silver.

St Lucia registered two fine wins through Lenyn Leonce (7.37 metres) in the Boys’ Under-20 long jump and Sandisha Antoine (12.91m) in the Girls’ U-20 triple jump.

T&T’s Robert Collingwood retained his Boys’ U-20 shot put title at 17.49 metres, and Jamaican picked up another gold in the field through Julian Forte in the U-17 Boys’ triple jump.

The Austin Sealy Award for outstanding performer at the meet went to Grenada’s 16-year-old Kirani James, who won the Boys’ U-20 400 in a superb 45.45 seconds, erasing the previous mark of 46.35 by Jamaican standout Usain Bolt.