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Four J'cans ranked first on IAAF junior performance list
Paul A Reid
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
FOUR Jamaicans, two males and two females, are ranked at number one in their respective disciplines on the International Association of Athletics Federation's (IAAF) junior performance list that was released yesterday for the first time this track and field season.
Defending IAAF World Junior 100m champion Dexter Lee, discus thrower, National Junior Record holder Chad Wright and Manchester High's long jumper Chanice Porter and 800m runner Natoya Goule lead their respective sections in the just released IAAF Junior lists for the 2010 season.
The Georgia, USA-based Lee, who is bidding to become the first man to retain the 100m title in Moncton, Canada in July, leads the men's 100m list with the 10.34 seconds he ran at the Baie Mahult meet in Guadeloupe on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Lee, who opened his outdoor season with a 10.52 seconds clocking at the Sea Ray Relays in Knoxville, Tennessee in early April, has a wind aided 20.96 seconds (2.9 m/s) in the 200m.
Wolmer's Boys' CARIFTA Games Under-17 double gold medallist, 15-year-old Odean Skeen's 10.46 seconds ranks him sixth among juniors and first
among youths.
Skeen is the top-ranked Jamaican on the 200m list, as the 20.84 seconds he ran at the CARIFTA Games over the Easter weekend is the fourth ranked time, just behind Grenada's IAAF World Youth Champion Kirani James' 20.76 seconds.
Japan's Shota Iizuka leads with 20.58, while Cuba's Roberto Skyers is next with 20.65 seconds.
Calabar High's Chad Wright, who won the Boys' Champs, CARIFTA Games Under-20 and Penn Relays record holder leads the discus throw (1.75km) list with the 63.11m he threw at the CARIFTA Games.
IAAF World Youth Games bronze medallist Traves Smikle, Wright's Calabar teammate, is eighth with his 59.52m set at Boys' Champs while winning the silver medal.
Porter, who turns 16 later this month and who set a Class Two record with a brilliant 6.43m at Girls' Champs, leads the long jump standings ahead of the British Virgin Island's Chantel Malone's 6.41m that she set while taking second in the College Women's Championships long jump at the Penn Relays last month, competing for the University of Texas.
St Elizabeth Technical's Rochelle Farquharson is the 10th ranked jumper on the list with the 6.16m she set in January at the Jamaica College meet, which ranks her first among the Under-18 age group.
Goule's personal best 2 minutes 03.52 seconds, which she ran when she won the Class One 800m at Girls' Champs is the leading time in the world for the two-lap event, while Edwin Allen High's Ristananna Tracey's 2 minutes 07.79 seconds is number 10.
Bellefield High's Kemoy Campbell is listed in seventh place in the 1,500m where he has a season best 3 minutes 45.54 seconds, but is not listed on the 3,000m list where his personal best 8 minutes 20.14 seconds would make him the fourth best in the world so far.
Dwayne Extoll of Wolmer's Boys' and Munro College's Boys Champs gold medallist Jodi-Rae Blackwood are sixth and seventh, respectively, on the 400m hurdles list that is led by Trinidad and Tobago's Jehue Gordon with 49.65 seconds.
Extoll has a season best 51.50 seconds marginally better than Blackwood's
51.56 seconds.
Sprint hurdler Samantha Elliot is ranked at number two in the 100m hurdles with the 13.42 seconds CARIFTA Under-20 record she established last month.
St Jago's Tonique Sobah is number four on the list with 13.55 seconds, also established in the Cayman Islands.
Four J'cans ranked first on IAAF junior performance list
Paul A Reid
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
FOUR Jamaicans, two males and two females, are ranked at number one in their respective disciplines on the International Association of Athletics Federation's (IAAF) junior performance list that was released yesterday for the first time this track and field season.
Defending IAAF World Junior 100m champion Dexter Lee, discus thrower, National Junior Record holder Chad Wright and Manchester High's long jumper Chanice Porter and 800m runner Natoya Goule lead their respective sections in the just released IAAF Junior lists for the 2010 season.
The Georgia, USA-based Lee, who is bidding to become the first man to retain the 100m title in Moncton, Canada in July, leads the men's 100m list with the 10.34 seconds he ran at the Baie Mahult meet in Guadeloupe on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Lee, who opened his outdoor season with a 10.52 seconds clocking at the Sea Ray Relays in Knoxville, Tennessee in early April, has a wind aided 20.96 seconds (2.9 m/s) in the 200m.
Wolmer's Boys' CARIFTA Games Under-17 double gold medallist, 15-year-old Odean Skeen's 10.46 seconds ranks him sixth among juniors and first
among youths.
Skeen is the top-ranked Jamaican on the 200m list, as the 20.84 seconds he ran at the CARIFTA Games over the Easter weekend is the fourth ranked time, just behind Grenada's IAAF World Youth Champion Kirani James' 20.76 seconds.
Japan's Shota Iizuka leads with 20.58, while Cuba's Roberto Skyers is next with 20.65 seconds.
Calabar High's Chad Wright, who won the Boys' Champs, CARIFTA Games Under-20 and Penn Relays record holder leads the discus throw (1.75km) list with the 63.11m he threw at the CARIFTA Games.
IAAF World Youth Games bronze medallist Traves Smikle, Wright's Calabar teammate, is eighth with his 59.52m set at Boys' Champs while winning the silver medal.
Porter, who turns 16 later this month and who set a Class Two record with a brilliant 6.43m at Girls' Champs, leads the long jump standings ahead of the British Virgin Island's Chantel Malone's 6.41m that she set while taking second in the College Women's Championships long jump at the Penn Relays last month, competing for the University of Texas.
St Elizabeth Technical's Rochelle Farquharson is the 10th ranked jumper on the list with the 6.16m she set in January at the Jamaica College meet, which ranks her first among the Under-18 age group.
Goule's personal best 2 minutes 03.52 seconds, which she ran when she won the Class One 800m at Girls' Champs is the leading time in the world for the two-lap event, while Edwin Allen High's Ristananna Tracey's 2 minutes 07.79 seconds is number 10.
Bellefield High's Kemoy Campbell is listed in seventh place in the 1,500m where he has a season best 3 minutes 45.54 seconds, but is not listed on the 3,000m list where his personal best 8 minutes 20.14 seconds would make him the fourth best in the world so far.
Dwayne Extoll of Wolmer's Boys' and Munro College's Boys Champs gold medallist Jodi-Rae Blackwood are sixth and seventh, respectively, on the 400m hurdles list that is led by Trinidad and Tobago's Jehue Gordon with 49.65 seconds.
Extoll has a season best 51.50 seconds marginally better than Blackwood's
51.56 seconds.
Sprint hurdler Samantha Elliot is ranked at number two in the 100m hurdles with the 13.42 seconds CARIFTA Under-20 record she established last month.
St Jago's Tonique Sobah is number four on the list with 13.55 seconds, also established in the Cayman Islands.
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