Zoenique Williams proved that last year’s silver medal display at the Elite Caribbean Championships was no fluke after duplicating the feat in Puerto Rico yesterday.

Williams finished second in the road race for the second straight year to claim Bermuda’s second medal at the championships and secure a spot for the Island at next year’s Pan Am Games in Toronto.

The Dominican Republic took the gold medal while the bronze went to Martinique.

Williams’s team-mate Nicole Mitchell, who won the bronze medal in the road race last year, had to be content with a sixth-place finish.

Bermuda men’s team — Dominique Mayho, Darren Glasford and Mark Hatherley — did not fare as well as their female team-mates as they were pulled out of the road race after completing three of the five laps on the hilly 138-kilometre course.

Mitchell, who represented Bermuda at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, claimed Bermuda’s remaining medal at the two-day championships.

The 31-year-old earned the bronze medal in Saturday’s individual time-trial for the second straight year after pipping team-mate Williams for third by 18 seconds, to take her overall medal haul at the championships to seven.

Kathryne Bertine, of St Kitts and Nevis, won the gold with Tamico Butler, of Antigua, taking the silver.

In the men’s event, Mark Hatherley was Bermuda’s sole representative in the 44-km event, finishing in thirteenth place.

Hatherley was well adrift of the winner, the Puerto Rican Efren Ortega, who posted a time of 55min 36sec.