From April 16 to 18, 2022, the 49th Caribbean Free Trade Area Games will be held in Kingston, the capital city of Jamaica. In the women's 4x100 relay final held on the 17th local time, the Jamaican team composed of four 18-year-old girls (Selena Cole, Brianna Leston, Dina Clayton, Dia Clayton) ran 42.58 seconds to win the championship and set a new world youth record, the original record time was 42.94 seconds, also created by Jamaican girls at the 2021 Nairobi World Youth Championships.
It is worth mentioning that one of the four girls who broke the world record this time is a pair of twin sisters, Dina Clayton and Dia Clayton, who also won the championship and runner-up in 11.22 seconds and 11.30 seconds respectively in the 100-meter trapeze battle of this competition.
As a highly explosive athletics powerhouse, this event, the Jamaican team led the medal table with 47 gold, 32 silver, 18 bronze, and a total of 97 medals, and in the 49-year history of the Caribbean Games, Jamaica has occupied the first place in the medal table 43 times. In addition to the good results, the competition also attracted many celebrities to cheer up, including the world famous Bolt, Thompson, Fraser and others, and even the president of the World Athletics Federation, Sebastian Coe, also appeared on the field to watch the game.
The Caribbean Games (CARIFTA Games) is an annual youth athletics competition organized by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The inaugural event was held in 1972 and was limited to Caribbean Free Trade Association countries such as Jamaica, the Bahamas and Barbados, and included sprints, hurdles, middle and long distance running, jumping, throwing and relay events. The competition is divided into two age groups: under 17 and under 20.