Kyrah Scraders, the Bermuda middle distance runner, captured gold in the girls’ under-18 800 metres on the final day of the Carifta Games in Martinique last night.

Scraders, who won silver in the girls’ under-18 1,500 on Saturday, sprinted past two Caribbean counterparts to claim the victory, posting a time of 2min 10.68 sec.

The two-times Junior Female Athlete of the Year has medalled at every Carifta Games she has competed in, including a gold last year in the 800, with yesterday’s triumph taking her medal tally to six.

Jamaica pair Junelle Bromfield, 2:10.79, and Brtnie Dixon, 2:13.33, finished second and third in yesterday’s race.

Donna Watson, the Bermuda National Athletics Association president, said: “Of course the gold medal win by Kyrah was the highlight and especially the way that she did it by overtaking the two Jamaicans on the home stretch.

“I’m so proud of my athletes. They gave it their all and I could not ask for anything more. I’m proud as can be.”

Among Bermuda’s five medals was their first boys’ high jump medal since 1992 with Jahnai Perinchief winning silver in the boys’ under-18 competition.

Rohaan Simons, the Bermuda jumping coach, who won a silver when team-mate Stephen Woodley clinched gold 22 years ago, said he was thrilled with the performances of his three jumpers.

Sakari Famous claimed silver in the girls’ under-18 high jump on Saturday, adding to the silver she won in the girls’ under-17 event at last year’s Carifta Games.

“I’m very excited about the performance by the jumpers over the duration of the meet,” said Simons, who was a late replacement after Troy Douglas, the Bermuda head coach, was forced to pull out of the trip to Martinique because of a virus that restricted his walking.

“Sakari had a rough go of things due to the weather being ridiculous. There were gale force winds and torrential rain on numerous occasions, and they had to leave the jumping area twice before returning, so she was really up against it. Technically Sakari was brilliant in all her jumps.”

Perinchief experienced the same issues as his compatriot, and against a much larger field lived up to the expectations Simons had of him.

“Jahnai had to overcome his own battles as well, and to be honest [the Games] were disorganised during the jumping, but the coaching staff had to keep these distractions away from the athletes so that they could compete,” Simons added.

“A lot of things were out of our control, and Jahnai was in the warm up area for roughly two hours while the other competition for the other age groups was still going on.

“He was ready for the competition, however, and he did well against the 19 other athletes and fell just short of the gold.”

Games debutant Azaire Smith also delivered an encouraging performance, competing in the same division as Famous.

“Azaire is well beyond her years,” Simons said. “She wasn’t a fish out of water like some people might have thought as she’s very green in the sport,” Simons said.

“The day before she cleared 1.60 in the warm-up, which was a personal best for her, so if she would have duplicated that she would have also won a silver medal. It wasn’t to be but we are proud of her and she can only get better.”

Dage Minors also returns home with a medal, having won bronze in the boys’ under-20 1,500 on Saturday.

Bermuda also won five medals at last year’s Carifta, which were held in the Bahamas.