Carifta Games 2017 on Curacao

The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association.

The Carifta Track & Field events 2017 will be held on Curacao.

Carifta also has a swimming competition and a chess competition these will be held on another island.

Curacao is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and is part of the Dutch Caribbean region. Curacao is approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of the Venezuelan coast. It is a constituent country (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Track & Field events will be held in: SDK stadium.

SDK stadium is in Brievengat district. It is an urban area that also has a small industrial park.
SDK is the biggest sport compound of Curacao. It has indoor and outdoor locations, Olympic swimming pool, soccer / baseball field and more.

The event will be held on: 15-16-17 April 2017

The competition schedules are not available yet.

The races will be for the following events:

100M  – 200M – 400M – 800M – 1500M – 3000M – 5000M – 100MH – 110MH – 400MH
4 x 100M – 4 x 400M – Shot put, Discus, Javelin, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump and
open event: Heptathlon and Octathlon.

To participate you must be born:

For U-20: born in 1998 or later
For U-18 born in 2000 or later

Events are open for boys and girls.

Participating countries in the Carifta Track & Field 2017 are:
Anguilla (AIA)                                  Antigua & Barbuda (ANT)                             Aruba (ARU)
Bahamas (BAH)                              Barbados (BAR)                                           Belize (BIZ)
Bermuda (BER)                               Bonaire (BON)                                              British Virgin Islands (BVI)
Cayman Islands (CAY)                    Dominica (DMA)                                           French Guyana / Cayenne (FGU)
Grenada (GRN)                               Guadeloupe (GPL)                                       Guyana (GUY)
Haiti (HAI)                                       Jamaica (JAM)                                              Martinique (MTQ)
Montserrat (MNT)                           St. Kitts & Nevis (SKN)                                  St. Lucia (LCA)
St. Maarten (SXM)                          St. Vincent & The Grenadines (VIN)             Suriname (SUR)
Trinidad & Tobago (TRI)                 Turks & Caicos Islands (TKS)                       US Virgin Islands (ISV)
Curaçao (CUW) –Host

Curacao welcomes you.