AYODELE TAFFE was crowned sprint champion and Shurlun Williams captured two individual gold medals at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Games, in Jamaica, two weekends ago. Taffe was also golden in the men’s 4×100 metres relay, anchoring St Augustine Campus to victory.

Taffe struck gold in the men’s 100m dash, the Trinidad and Tobago athlete outsprinting Jamaicans Oshane Blake and Mazinho Barrett at the Usain Bolt Track, on UWI’s Mona Campus. In a close contest, Taffe stopped the clock at 10.66 seconds to take top spot, just ahead of the Mona duo of Blake (10.67) and Barrett (10.68).

Williams was dominant in the men’s 1500m and 5,000m events. The St Augustine runner returned a time of four minutes, 12.46 seconds for a comfortable margin of victory in the 1500. And in the 5,000, Williams proved to be in a class of his own, a 15:55.69 run giving him gold by more than a minute.