2005 CARIFTA Games
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Bacolet, Trinidad and Tobago 
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| Date(s) | March 26–28 |
| Main stadium | Dwight Yorke Stadium |
| Level | Junior and Youth |
| Participation | about 427 (215 junior, 212 youth) athletes from about 25 nations |
| Events | 66 (35 junior (incl. 5 open), 31 youth) |
| Records set | 4 games 8 national (senior) |
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The 34th CARIFTA Games was held in the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago on March 26–28, 2005. The event was relocated from the National Stadium, St. George’s, Grenada, because of the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan destroying 90 percent of the island’s houses. An appraisal of the results has been given.
Detailed result lists can be found on the CACAC, the CFPI and the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 427 athletes (215 junior (under-20) and 212 youth (under-17)) from about 25 countries: Anguilla (3), Antigua and Barbuda (10), Aruba (2), Bahamas (51), Barbados (37), Bermuda (12), British Virgin Islands (7), Cayman Islands (16), Dominica (5), French Guiana (1), Grenada (31), Guadeloupe (19), Guyana (8), Haiti (11), Jamaica (69), Martinique (31), Montserrat (2), Netherlands Antilles (6), Saint Kitts and Nevis (8), Saint Lucia (8), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (3), Suriname (3), Trinidad and Tobago (59), Turks and Caicos Islands (18), US Virgin Islands (7).
A total of 4 new games records were set.
In the boys' U-20 category, Grégory Gamyr from Martinique achieved 18.11 metres in shot put.
In the boys' U-17 category, Theon O'Connor from Jamaica set the new 800m games record to 1:53.72. The 4x400 metres relay team from Trinidad and Tobago set the new games record to 3:15.09.
In the girls' U-17 category, the 4x100 metres relay team from Jamaica finished in 45.43 seconds.
Moreover, a total of 8 national (senior) records were set by the junior athletes. In the men's category, Junior Hines set the 3000 metres record for the Cayman Islands to 9:59.68.
In the women's category, individual records were set by Shara Proctor (long jump, 6.24m, wind: +0.9 m/s) for Anguilla, by Skyler Wallen (1500 metres, 4:44.79) for the Bahamas, by La Troya Darrell (triple jump, 12.29m, wind: -0.9 m/s) for Bermuda, by Opal Bodden (triple jump, 10.70m, wind: +0.8 m/s) for the Cayman Islands, and by Sanny Eugene (800 metres, 2:12.75) for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Moreover, the 4x100 metres relay teams of Grenada (45.41s) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (51.88s) established new national records.
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