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Carifta team swells to eight

Johndell Cumberbatch, the senior boys winner of the KPMG Front Street Mile, centre, has reached the Carifta qualifying standard (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)

Three more Bermudian athletes have reached the standard for the Carifta Games to be held in Curaçao in April.

Johndell Cumberbatch qualified for the under-18 3,000 metres with a time of 9min 42.80sec competing at a Bermuda National Athletics Association meet at the National Sports Centre last weekend.

Under-18 athletes Telilah Wears and Deneo Brangman both qualified at the February Classic in Barbados, with Wears posting a time of 25.42 in the 200, while Brangman hit the mark in two events, the 200 in 22.43 and 400 in 49.77.

Amelia Othman also qualified for the under-18 high jump with a leap of 1.60 at the NSC, but she is too young to compete at the Carifta Games.

Several athletes are still pushing for qualification including Stephan Dill in the under-20 100 and 200, Dlevonte Lodge and Lejuan Matthews — both in the under-18 100 and 200 — Zekiah Lewis in the under-18 long jump, Tilda Norman in the under-18 1,500, and Aaron Jacobs in the under-18 800.

The other athletes who have met the standard are Ashley Irby in the under-18 3,000 and 1,500, Lyndsey Palmer in the under-18 3,000, Sakari Famous in the under-18 high jump, Elisha Darrell in the under-20 high jump and Kevin Miller in the under-20 high jump. The qualification deadline is March 26.

Bermuda won one medal at last year’s competition in Granada, with Famous winning bronze in the under-18 high jump.