T&T's Geral­dine George copped gold in the women's 50-54 javelin throw on the fi­nal day of the 2025 World Mas­ters (Over 35) In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Alachua Coun­ty Sports Cen­tre, Gainesville, Flori­da USA on Sun­day (March 30).

George took the top spot with a dis­tance of 35.41 me­tres in the fifth round to win this coun­try's sec­ond gold medal at the meet af­ter Gwen­dolyn Smith se­cured the women's 60-64 javelin crown on March 24.

The dou­ble gold suc­cess by George and Smith was their third at the glob­al meet fol­low­ing their vic­to­ries at the 2010 and 2012 World In­doors Mas­ters in Kam­loops, Cana­da and Jy­vasky­la, Fin­land, re­spec­tive­ly.

For­mer T&T two-time Olympian Mar­sha Mark-Baird fin­ished sec­ond be­hind George in Flori­da with 35.27m. Mark-Baird took the lead af­ter the first round with her best ef­fort of 35.27m while George fouled her open­ing throw.

George, a for­mer Carif­ta cham­pi­on, moved up in­to the run­ner-up spot af­ter reg­is­ter­ing a 30.20m in the sec­ond round. Af­ter foul­ing the third throw, the Point Fortin ath­lete im­proved to 32.29m in the fourth round but re­mained in sec­ond spot. How­ev­er, she moved to the top of the field with 35.41m. She closed off the com­pe­ti­tion with 30.99m in the sixth and fi­nal round. Brazil­ian Stel­la Maris Carpinel­li Caldeira end­ed with the bronze medal (31.15m). Mark-Baird is a for­mer mul­ti­ple World Mas­ters cham­pi­on. She now com­petes for the USA.

George's gold­en medal per­for­mance came af­ter she missed out on win­ning a medal in the three events she com­pet­ed in ear­li­er in the cham­pi­onships. She was sixth in the dis­cus (34.27m) and shot put (12.50m) and 12th in the weight throw (11.06m) fi­nals.

Smith was al­so in ac­tion on the fi­nal day. She end­ed in 12th spot in the women's 60-64 dis­cus (18.96m) with an­oth­er T&T throw­er Noe­lyn To­by-Davis in eighth (21.33m). Smith al­so copped sil­ver in the women's 60-64 shot put.

George, Smith and To­by-Davis were mem­bers of T&T's five-mem­ber team which com­pet­ed in Flori­da. Sprint­ers Ray­mond Smith and Philbert Ryce were the oth­ers.

The T&T mas­ters con­tin­gent fin­ished with three medals (2 gold, 1 sil­ver) to fin­ish 29th on the medal ta­ble. The USA was the top coun­try with 557 medals (135, 190, 182) ahead of Great Britain and North­ern Ire­land with 93 (42, 25, 26) and Ger­many with 70 (29, 23, 18).

The Ba­hamas won two medals (1, 0, 1). Bar­ba­dos 1 (1, 0, 0), and Bermu­da 1 (0, 1, 0), se­cured one medal each.

T&T's re­sults

Sun­day

Javelin

Women's 50-54

1 Geral­dine George (TTO) 35.41 (F, 30.20, F, 32.29, 35.41, 30.00

2 Mar­sha Mark Baird (Unit­ed State/TTO) 35.27

3 Stel­la Maris Carpinel­li Caldeira (Brazil) 31.15

Dis­cus

Women's 60-64

8 Noe­lyn To­by-Davis (TTO) 21.33 (15.70, 20.54, 21.33)

12 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 18.96 (F, F, 18.96)

Sat­ur­day

Dis­cus

Women's 50-54 fi­nals

6 Geral­dine George (TT) 34.27 (F, 34.19, 32.22, 33.59, 34.27, 33.27)

March 28

Shot put

Women's 60-64 fi­nals

2 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 12.64

14 Noe­lyn To­by-Davis (TTO) 8.16 (8.01, F, 8.16)

March 27

Shot putt

Women's 50-54

6 Geral­dine George (TTO)12.50 (11.78, 11.43, 12.50, 11.44, F, 11.69).

March 26

Weight Throw fi­nals

10 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 13.10

200m

Men's 65-69

Semi­fi­nals

10 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 28.89

March 24

Weight Throw

Women's 50-54 fi­nal

12 Geral­dine George (TTO) 11.06 (10.65, 10.56, 11.06)

60m semi­fi­nals

Men's 65-69

9 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 8.45

Men's 50-54

Did not start - Philbert Ryce (TTO)

Javelin

Women's 60-64

1 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 36.87 (35.18, f, 36.87)

Men's 60m Pre­lims

50-54: 9 (Philbert Ryce (TTO) 7.60

65-69: 8 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 8.41