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JC capitalise on new events at Champs
CHAMPS SUPPLEMENT
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Two of three new events introduced at this year's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' Champs could have helped to decide the home for the Mortimer Geddes trophy for the next 12 months.
New champions Jamaica College scored 25 points, 14 in the javelin Open that James McDonald won while establishing a new meet record of 58.76m, and Jerone Burke took fourth place and another 11 points in the steeplechase Open with third and fourth places.
Yesterday Kingston College's coach Michael Russell rued his team's failure to score in the two events and said if there was an area where they fell down it would have been there.
JC won Champs with 280 points, 11 more than Kingston College who led from Wednesday's first final the Class One long jump until mid-way Saturday's schedule.
As was expected, the Julian Robinson-coached Calabar High boys scored heavily in the throwing events, amassing 48 of the team's total of 236, including two 1-2 finishes and two records.
They, however, failed to score in the Class Two shot put where Jamaica College picked up 11 points to Kingston College's four.
IAAF World Youth bonze medallist and World Junior finalist Traves Smikle broke his own National Junior Record in the discus with a massive 66.88m, breaking the 63.96m he set in February.
That effort, which came on his first throw in the final on Thursday, was the fourth longest ever for a junior and made him the third best ever behind world record holder Mykyta Nesterenko of the Ukraine, who has the top two -- 70.13m and 69.78m both done in 2008 when he won the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and Margus Hunt of Estonia who threw 67.32 in 2006.
Ashinia Miller, of Calabar, also broke the Class One shot put record when he recorded 18.98m to beat Chad Wright's 18.22m set last year.
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CHAMPS SUPPLEMENT
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Two of three new events introduced at this year's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' Champs could have helped to decide the home for the Mortimer Geddes trophy for the next 12 months.
New champions Jamaica College scored 25 points, 14 in the javelin Open that James McDonald won while establishing a new meet record of 58.76m, and Jerone Burke took fourth place and another 11 points in the steeplechase Open with third and fourth places.
Yesterday Kingston College's coach Michael Russell rued his team's failure to score in the two events and said if there was an area where they fell down it would have been there.
JC won Champs with 280 points, 11 more than Kingston College who led from Wednesday's first final the Class One long jump until mid-way Saturday's schedule.
As was expected, the Julian Robinson-coached Calabar High boys scored heavily in the throwing events, amassing 48 of the team's total of 236, including two 1-2 finishes and two records.
They, however, failed to score in the Class Two shot put where Jamaica College picked up 11 points to Kingston College's four.
IAAF World Youth bonze medallist and World Junior finalist Traves Smikle broke his own National Junior Record in the discus with a massive 66.88m, breaking the 63.96m he set in February.
That effort, which came on his first throw in the final on Thursday, was the fourth longest ever for a junior and made him the third best ever behind world record holder Mykyta Nesterenko of the Ukraine, who has the top two -- 70.13m and 69.78m both done in 2008 when he won the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and Margus Hunt of Estonia who threw 67.32 in 2006.
Ashinia Miller, of Calabar, also broke the Class One shot put record when he recorded 18.98m to beat Chad Wright's 18.22m set last year.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1Iem0ggdy