The British West Indies Championships was an annual track and field competition between nations involved in the West Indies Federation and several other Caribbean nations with a British colonial history.
Like the federation itself, the competition was short-lived: first held in 1957, it ceased after 1965.
The competition was created at a time of much sporting co-operation within the region – a British West Indies team was sent to both the 1959 Pan American Games and the 1960 Summer Olympics.
[1] The first event in 1957, held in Kingston, Jamaica, was supported by retired Olympic sprint medallist Herb McKenley.
[3] The championships featured prominent Caribbean men's sprinters of the period, including Commonwealth champion Tom Robinson, and Jamaican Olympic medallists Lennox Miller, George Kerr and Malcolm Spence.