CARIFTA GAMES: Bolt record goes

Jamaica’s Christopher Taylor was one of the outstanding athletes on yesterday’s second day of the 44th CARIFTA Games at the Silver Jubilee stadium in Basseterre, St Kitts as he broke Usain Bolt’s 13 year old record in the Under 18 boys 400m.

Taylor who won the Class 2 event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys championships last weekend, ran 46.64 seconds to erase Bolt’s 47.33 seconds set in 2002 in Nassau, Bahamas.

Jacob Clair of Trinidad was also under the old mark with 46.73 seconds to take silver while Devaughn Ellington of Jamaica was third with a personal best 47.43 seconds.

Ellington just edged the Bahamas’ Jamal Walton, last year’s bronze medallist who was also clocked in in 47.43 seconds and they had to be separated by a photo finish.

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