BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Suriname repeated as Caribbean under-19 badminton team champions Wednesday night when they shot past Trinidad & Tobago with a 5-0 victory in their final game. Suriname, with 5-0 wins over Jamaica and host nation Barbados earlier in the tournament, ended the four-team championship with a 100 percent record at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium. Jamaica secured the runner-up spot with a 5-0 win over Barbados. Top junior players Mitchel Wongsodikromo and Nathalie Haynes powered Suriname to their win over Trinidad & Tobago.

Nathalie, 17 years, who participated at the World Badminton Academy of 1997 at Oslo, Norway, has just recovered from a bad knee injury. Mitchel, just 14 years old, has participated at the most recently held World Academy at Capetown, South Africa. The individual championships are also already in progress and in the boys singles category Mitchel, who's the reigning South American boys singles champion under 15 years, is also hot favorite. Last year Mitchel was runner-up at the Caribbean Junior Championships in Suriname to Jamaican Charles Pyne. Mitchel who started playing badminton in 1993, has since then won more than 30 National junior titles and more than 25 individual juniors tournaments in Suriname in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Already twice has he received his Nations Award for Most Talented Sportspersonality.

FINAL STANDINGS - Caribbean Juniors Under-19 Team Championships 2000

(CAREBACO = Caribbean Regional Badminton Confederation)
1. SURINAME (Gold)
2. JAMAICA (Silver)
3. BARBADOS (Bronze)
4. Trinidad & Tobago

SURINAME'S JILL SJAUW MOOK TAKES U-13 GOLD AT CARIBBEAN JUNIORS

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados. - Suriname's Jill Sjauw Mook topped her field of boys and girls to win the first under-13 singles title on the opening day of the Caribbean Junior Badminton Championship at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium on Tuesday night. Sjauw Mook played unbeaten in the round-robin tournament to lift the crown. Jill Sjauw Mook prevailed in the under-13 singles category -- mixed between boys and girls -- competition with four consecutive wins to snatch gold, ahead of Barbadian Renaldo Jordan, with Nicholas Reifer, also Barbados, third.