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Silver and bronze medals for Bermuda athletes, swimmers

Bermuda sprinter Jeneko Place (centre) won silver in the 100 metres in the under 17 group in the Cayman Islands.

Bermuda's track team claimed a hat-trick of medals on the opening day of the Carifta Games in Cayman Islands.

And at the Carifta Swimming Championships in Jamaica, Bermuda won a silver and bronze medal.

In the Cayman Islands sprinter Jeneko Place, long distance runner Juma Mouchette and Jasmine Brunson all placed on the podium on Saturday.

Place ran a personal best of 10.71 seconds in the boys under-17 100 metres to takes the silver medal, Brunson won a bronze in the girls under-20 long jump with a leap of 5.86m and Mouchette also came away with a bronze in the girls under-17 1,500m with PB time of 4.12.83.

Dage Minors finished eighth in the under-17 boys 1,500m with a PB of 4.20.59.

Yesterday, both Shaquille Dill and Henry Stevens-Carty both qualified for the 800m finals.

Former Carifta Games medallist, Aaron Evans, competed in the Florida Relays at the weekend where he ran a PB and broke the Bermuda junior record in the 800m in a time of 1:48.64, placing third.

In Jamaica Emma Frankin won the bronze in the 50 backstroke in the 13-14 age group and set a new Bermuda record breaking Rebecca Sharpe's old one while Stephanie Miles won the silver in the 400 IM in the 15-17 age group.

The Carifta Swimming Championships finish on Tuesday.