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Lee, Wright head World Juniors list
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, July 05, 2010
DEFENDING men's 100m champion Dexter Lee, National Junior discus record-holder Chad Wright and quarter-miler Jodi-Ann Muir are the top individual medal contenders named in the 38 members squad released by the JAAA to take part in the 13th IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada later this month.
The team that will seek to top the six medals won at the last Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2008, was named following the two day National Junior Championships at GC Foster College nearly a month ago.
In Poland, Jamaica won one gold, four silvers and a bronze.
The team which sees Julian Robinson as head coach and Alfred Francis as manager also includes three Under-17 athletes and 10 who took part in the World Youth Championships in Italy last year.
CARIFTA Games Under-17 double sprint champion Odean Skeen, long jumper Chanice Porter and 400m runner Chris-Ann Gordon all took part in the Under-17 section at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in the Dominican Republic last weekend.
Lee, who leads the IAAF Junior performance list with a personal best 10.20 seconds that he has run three times this season, is seeking to become the first man to repeat as champion.
Muir is the leading Jamaican Junior female 400-metre runner with a personal best 52.79 seconds set earlier this year, while Wright, who holds the National Junior Records for the discus at 63.11 metres and shot put at 18.87 metres, is expected to medal in the former discipline.
Intermediate hurdler Danielle Dowie was a silver medallist at the WYC last year, while Ristananna Tracey tripped on the 10th hurdle while leading.
An interesting selection are three female sprint hurdlers -- Girls Champs Class 1 winner and CARIFTA Games Under-20 record-holder Samantha Elliot, whose personal best is 13.42 seconds; new CAC Jnr gold medallist and Girls Champs Class 2 champion Danielle Williams, who also won at Junior Trials and has a personal best 13.65 seconds, as well as Tonique Sobah, who was third in Class 1 at Champs and second at Junior Trials, but picked out of the heats at CAC games last weekend.
Sobah, whose personal best in the 100m hurdles is 13.55 seconds, is also a heptathlete, but her 4,742 points for second at Girls Champs would fall short of the 5,150 standard set by the IAAF.
Meanwhile, for the first time in the history of attending the global age group championships, the Jamaican team will include four throwers.
Wright will be joined by Calabar teammates Traves Smikle, who won an historic bronze in Italy last year, and Ashania Miller, who missed out on selection last year.
St Hugh's High's Candecia Bernard, the NJR holder in the discus at 48.71 metres, is the first female thrower named to attend an IAAF meet.
Smikle was the only thrower named last year and prior to this, former Kingston College's shot putter Kimani Kirton was the only other who took part at the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2001.
Lee, Wright head World Juniors list
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, July 05, 2010
DEFENDING men's 100m champion Dexter Lee, National Junior discus record-holder Chad Wright and quarter-miler Jodi-Ann Muir are the top individual medal contenders named in the 38 members squad released by the JAAA to take part in the 13th IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada later this month.
The team that will seek to top the six medals won at the last Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2008, was named following the two day National Junior Championships at GC Foster College nearly a month ago.
In Poland, Jamaica won one gold, four silvers and a bronze.
The team which sees Julian Robinson as head coach and Alfred Francis as manager also includes three Under-17 athletes and 10 who took part in the World Youth Championships in Italy last year.
CARIFTA Games Under-17 double sprint champion Odean Skeen, long jumper Chanice Porter and 400m runner Chris-Ann Gordon all took part in the Under-17 section at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in the Dominican Republic last weekend.
Lee, who leads the IAAF Junior performance list with a personal best 10.20 seconds that he has run three times this season, is seeking to become the first man to repeat as champion.
Muir is the leading Jamaican Junior female 400-metre runner with a personal best 52.79 seconds set earlier this year, while Wright, who holds the National Junior Records for the discus at 63.11 metres and shot put at 18.87 metres, is expected to medal in the former discipline.
Intermediate hurdler Danielle Dowie was a silver medallist at the WYC last year, while Ristananna Tracey tripped on the 10th hurdle while leading.
An interesting selection are three female sprint hurdlers -- Girls Champs Class 1 winner and CARIFTA Games Under-20 record-holder Samantha Elliot, whose personal best is 13.42 seconds; new CAC Jnr gold medallist and Girls Champs Class 2 champion Danielle Williams, who also won at Junior Trials and has a personal best 13.65 seconds, as well as Tonique Sobah, who was third in Class 1 at Champs and second at Junior Trials, but picked out of the heats at CAC games last weekend.
Sobah, whose personal best in the 100m hurdles is 13.55 seconds, is also a heptathlete, but her 4,742 points for second at Girls Champs would fall short of the 5,150 standard set by the IAAF.
Meanwhile, for the first time in the history of attending the global age group championships, the Jamaican team will include four throwers.
Wright will be joined by Calabar teammates Traves Smikle, who won an historic bronze in Italy last year, and Ashania Miller, who missed out on selection last year.
St Hugh's High's Candecia Bernard, the NJR holder in the discus at 48.71 metres, is the first female thrower named to attend an IAAF meet.
Smikle was the only thrower named last year and prior to this, former Kingston College's shot putter Kimani Kirton was the only other who took part at the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2001.