The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

GLASGOW, Scotland: The Bahamas picked up its third medal at the 20th Commonwealth Games as the men's 4 x 400 metre relay team of Latoy Williams, Michael Mathieu, Alonzo Russell and Chris 'Fireman' Brown had to settle for the silver on the final day of competition for athletics.

On Saturday at the Hampden Park National Stadium, the quartet clocked three minutes and 51 seconds as the Bahamas trailed England to the finish line.

While England held on for the gold in 3:00.46, Trinidad & Tobago picked up the bronze in 3:01.51.

The medal performance came after the women's 4 x x 400m team ended up seventh in their final and before the men and women's 4 x 100m teams were sixth and fifth as the athletic segment closed out with two games record setting performances from Jamaica, anchored by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price and Usain Bolt, respectively.

The Bahamas still has one more discipline to complete on Sunday when the five-man team of Chad Albury, Anthony 'Biggie' Colebrooke, Roy Colebrooke and Deangelo Sturrup compete in the grueling road race in cycling.

The games will be completed with the closing ceremonies later in the evening.

The men's 4 x 4 relay team had splits of 45.7 by Williams, who popped off bringing the baton to Mathieu in third place. Mathieu ran 45.1 on his leg and passed it off to Russell for his split of 45.16. Trailing in third place when he got the baton, Brown came back on the home stretch and got past Trinidad & Tobago, but didn't have enough landscape to reel in England's Matthew Hudson on anchor, despite running the fastest split of 44.58.

With three medals - another silver from Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace in the women's 50m butterfly in swimming and a bronze from Jeffery Gibson in the men's 400m hurdles, the Bahamas was placed at number 24 on the medal chart that was led by England with 165 compared to Australia's 132 in second place.

As for the women, the team of Christine Armertil (54.3 split), Shaunae Miller (51.3), Lanece Clarke (53.93) and Miriam Byfield (55.19) could do no better than 3:34.86. Jamaica won the title in a games' record of 3:23.82, while Nigeria got the silver in 3:24.71 and the bronze went to England in 3:27.24.

After suffering an injury and leaping off the track during her pop off leg, Amertil had to be escorted in a wheelchair to receive medical attention.

With Miller running on the 4 x 4m relay team, the women's 4 x 100m relay team came out with the combination of Katrina Seymour, Sheniqua 'Q' Ferguson, Cacha Armbrister and Nivea Smith, finishing sixth in 44.25 as Jamaica turned in a world leading time for the games record of 41.83 for the gold. Nigeria got the silver in 42.92 and the bronze went top England in 43.10.

And after lowering the national record to 38.52 in the heats, the same team of Adrian Griffith, Shavez Hart, Warren Fraser and Teray Smith bobbled the first and second exchanges and that led to a fifth place finish in 39.16.

It was another world leading time and games record of 37.58 for Jamaica, anchored by Bolt, as they left the stadium in a frenzy. England took the silver in 38.02 and the bronze went to Trinidad & Tobago in 38.10.