Lakeisha Warner of the Virgin Islands grabbed gold in the 8 x 100 mixed relay shuttle on Tuesday August 26, 2014 at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing China. Photo: Provided

Team Virgin Islands at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing China. Photo: Provided

Five of the six athletics' athletes competed in the first ever 8 x 100m mixed shuttle relay ending the athletics programme at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games and it was team #34 out of 66 teams which included Warner that won gold in 1:40.20.

Each team consisted of 8 athletes from 8 different countries; 4 males, 4 females and participants from a mixture of track and field events; including Shot Putters, Javelin Throwers, Triple Jumpers, 2000m Steeple Chasers, 3000m runners, 1500m, High Jumpers, Pole Vaulters etc.

Lakeisha "Mimi" Warner's Team advanced to the Final with a time of 1:41.79, whilst Kala Penn's Team ran 1:44.96, Kryon McMaster's Team: 1:47.36, Akeem Bradshaw's Team, 1:45.96, Deya Erickson's Team, 1:54.36, Nelda Huggins' Team, 1:54.37.

Elsewhere

Sam Morrell finished on a high note placing 13th in the final race of his Byte CII one person dinghy regatta and ranking 22nd overall. Seven races plus the final race were completed.

Individual events finished on a not so high note with Akeem Bradshaw placing 5th in the Triple Jump B Final (best jump 13.90m) and Kyron McMaster receiving a false start disqualification (DQ) in the 400m Hurdle B final and not being allowed to "run under protest". This was after missing a hurdle in his first round race which also ended in a DQ.

It was a disappointing outcome but still a significant historical event as Nelda Huggins placed 6th in the 2nd Youth Olympic Games 100m A Finals in a time of 11.87.

Kala Penn finished 6th in the Long Jump C Final. Her Series include marks of: 5.19m. 4.89 and 5.18m and 5.08m.

Swimmer Amarah Phillip has concluded her Youth Olympic competition experience after swimming in heat 3 of the Women's 50m freestyle.