Sports
Sailing event wraps up Olympics for Cayman team
(CNS): Cayman Islands sailor Charlotte Webster, competing in the Women’s Dinghy event at the Paris Olympics, finished in 41st place overall out of 43 competitors after Race 10 in the Opening Series was cancelled due to bad weather. The top-10 ranked boats now move on to the Medal Race, which means that Webster will not […]
Cayman sprinter upbeat, looking to next Olympics
(CNS): Competing in his first Olympic Games, 18-year-old Davonte Howell didn’t qualify for the Semifinals of the Men’s 100m on Saturday, but he’s already looking ahead to the next Olympics. “I know exactly what I need to fix,” the Cayman Islands sprinter said after his heat. “It’s my first Games, and it definitely won’t be […]
Crooks makes Cayman proud at Paris Olympics
(CNS): Cayman Islands standout swimming star Jordan Crooks finished the Men’s 50m Freestyle Finals less than 0.4 seconds behind the winner, Cameron McEvoy of Australia, and a hair’s breadth, just 0.08 seconds, behind Bronze medalist Florent Manaudou of France. In a race where there were the merest split seconds between the race times of the […]
Crooks advances to 50m Finals in Paris Olympics
(CNS): Crooks has become the first Cayman Islands swimmer ever to qualify for an Olympics Final. Swimming in the first of two semifinal races in the Men’s 50m Freestyle on Thursday, he was powerful out of the blocks and led the race from start to finish, clocking a time of 21.54 seconds, which was 0.04 seconds […]
First steps taken towards Olympic-sized pool
(CNS) Updated with costs: The swimming programmes in the Cayman Islands have produced two competitors for the Paris Games but there may be more in the next Olympics as they will finally have an Olympic-sized pool for practice. The Ministry of Sports has announced the procurement of the components to build two new pools, one […]
Cayman run out Plate champions at rugby sevens
(CNS Local Life): The Cayman team may have fallen short in its quest for a top spot and a shot at qualifying for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but the squad nevertheless gave the home crowd something to cheer about as they beat Guyana in the Plate final at the 2019 Rugby Americas North Sevens […]
Cayman adds 3 golds to medals tally in swimming
(CNS Local Life): Cayman’s swimmers matched their first-day medals total, taking 11 including three more gold at Sunday’s (21 April) CARIFTA Aquatics Championships taking place in Barbados. Together with the four silver and four bronze in swimming, duplicating Saturday’s haul, Cayman has 29 total medals overall, comprising synchronised swimming, open water and pool events, entering […]
Swimmers take 3 golds at CARIFTA championships
(CNS Local Life): Cayman’s swimmers earned 11 medals, including three gold, on the first day of competition at the 34th annual CARIFTA Aquatics Championships being held in Barbados through Tuesday, 23 April. Taking the top spot on the podium for Cayman on Saturday, 20 April, all in girls’ events, were Raya Embry-Brown, for her first […]
CARIFTA games open in Cayman
(CNS Local Life): Aijah Lewis gave host Cayman Islands its first medal in the 48th annual CARIFTA games at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex, taking bronze in the women’s U20 high jump on the opening day of the three-day event, Saturday, 19 April. Later in the day, high jumper Louis Gordon just missed a spot […]
Government turns to sports for newest heroes
(CNS Local Life): The government is looking to give out its next batch of local gongs to sports women and men who have excelled in their fields. The 2018 National Heroes Day is still more than five months away but the nominations committee has already held their first meeting and begun planning the annual national […]
Cayman hold Belize to goal-less draw in away leg
(CNS): The Cayman Islands football team clung onto a goal-less draw in the World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday evening during a relentless game of attack from the Belize squad playing in front of a home crowd in Belmopan. The Cayman national team was in trouble from the first minute, when Belize was awarded a penalty […]
