The Caribbean scooped 33 medals, 14 of them Gold, at the Covid-delayed 2020 Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan, during July and August. Top of the pile, team-wise, was Cuba, which placed 14th in the medal table with seven golds and 15 medals in total. At an individual level, Jamaica’s sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah scooped Gold in the 100m (which saw a Jamaican clean sweep), 200m and 4x100m relay. Elsewhere on the track, the Bahamas showed their prowess at 400m, with Steven Gardiner and Shaunae Miller-Uibo landing the men’s and women’s titles, respectively. While athletics dominated the regional haul, medals also came home in boxing, weightlifting, canoeing, shooting, baseball, wrestling, taekwondo and judo.
Jamaica dominated the Women’s 100m, with Elaine Thompson-Herah taking Gold; Shelly- Ann Fraser-Pryce,
Silver; and Shericka Jackson, Bronze