2007 CARIFTA Games
| XXXVI CARIFTA Games | |
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| Host city |
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands 
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| Date(s) | April 7-9 |
| Main stadium | National Stadium |
| Level | Junior and Youth |
| Participation | about 454 (254 junior, 200 youth) athletes from about 26 nations |
| Events | 66 (35 junior (incl. 5 open), 31 youth) |
| Records set | 12 games 14 national (senior) |
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The 36th CARIFTA Games was held in the National Stadium on the island of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, on April 7-9, 2007. Detailed reports on the results were given.
Result lists can be found on the CACAC website, on the C.F.P.I. Timing website, on the IslandStats website, and on the World Junior Athletics History website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 454 athletes (254 junior (under-20) and 200 youth (under-17)) from about 26 countries:
Anguilla (7), Antigua and Barbuda (4), Aruba (4), Bahamas (59), Barbados (31), Belize (2), Bermuda (18), British Virgin Islands (7), Cayman Islands (18), Dominica (7), French Guiana (1), Grenada (13), Guadeloupe (18), Guyana (2), Haiti (12), Jamaica (70), Martinique (34), Montserrat (2), Netherlands Antilles (11), Saint Kitts and Nevis (33), Saint Lucia (5), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (3), Suriname (3), Trinidad and Tobago (46), Turks and Caicos Islands (35), U.S. Virgin Islands (9).
A total of 12 new games records were set.
In the boys' U-20 category, Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake already set the new 100m record to 10.18s (1.5 m/s) in the heat, before improving it again to 10.11s in the final.Ryan Brathwaite from Barbados also improved (his own) 110 metres hurdles games record twice: first, he achieved 13.65s (-1.0 m/s) in the heat, before setting the final mark to 13.42s in the final.Jamaal Wilson from the Bahamas defended his high jump title jumping the new record height of 2.20m.Raymond Brown won the shot put establishing the new games record of 18.27m. And the Jamaican 4x400 metres relay team set the new games record to 3:07.10.
In the girls' U-20 category, the 100 metres hurdles record was improved to 13.51s (1.3 m/s) by Shermaine Williams from Jamaica.
In the boys' U-17 category, Dexter Lee of Jamaica set two new games records, both in 100 metres (10.34s), and in 200 metres (21.09s). His compatriot Kemoy Campbell also set two new games records in 1500 metres (4:00.04), and 3000 metres (8:46.49). And as in the U-20 category, the records fell in high jump and shot put: Raymond Higgs from the Bahamas jumped 2.13m, whereas Quincy Wilson from Trinidad and Tobago reached 16.27m.
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