The team of the Clayton twins, Brandy Hall and Shenequa Vassell scorched the track to run a time of 44.64 to win their heat. Hydel High (46.37) and IMG Academy (47.03) were second and third fastest to the final.
Holmwood Technical (47.12), Immaculate Conception (47.15), St. Catherine High (47.56) and St. Jago (47.37) will also be in Friday's final.
Holmwood Technical’s Cedricka Williams was dominant in winning the High School Girls discus with a throw of 54.00m. Camperdown’s Victoria Christie was second with 44.88m while Ella Lucas from Warwick High School was third with 42.53m.
Edwin Allen’s Serena Cole, who ran the first leg on Jamaica’s world record-breaking U-20 girls 4x100m team at the recently concluded Carifta Games, jumped 5.98m for second in the High School Girls long jump behind Avery Lewis of Friends’ Central (6.05). Hailey Rios of Somerset jumped 5.84m for third.
St. Jago’s Annishka McDonald was third in the High School Girls' high jump after clearing 1.69m. The event was won by Spring-Ford’s Nene Mokonchu (1.72m) while Conard’s Audrey Kirkutis was second with 1.69m.
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Williams, a finalist at the World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi two years ago, threw 53.22m to break former Edwin Allen standout Fiona Richards' Class One discus record 53.04m, set in 2017, with her only throw in flight one of the preliminaries.
Her record would last only a few hours, however, as Martin broke Williams' record with a 55.19m effort in flight two, setting up an interesting clash between the two in the final.
Chief among them was Holmwood Technical’s Cedricka Williams, who broke the Class 1 Girls discuss throw with a new mark of 57.84m. It was the third time that the record was being broken during the championships.
During the preliminaries on Tuesday, Williams threw 53.22m to break former Edwin Allen standout Fiona Richards' record of 53.04m that was set in 2017. The record did last long as St Jago’s Abigail Martin a new mark of 55.19m to set up an interesting duel between the two in the final.
However, Martin was unable to surpass her preliminary round effort, throwing 53.81m in the final as Williams reigned supreme.
Camperdown High School’s Britannia was also over 50m taking the bronze medal with a throw of 50.69m.
Kimeka Smith of St Jago High School won the Girls Class II shot put with an impressive mark of 15.82m. Hydel High School’s Natassia Burrell won the silver with a throw of 15.55m. Able Mills of St Catherine High won the bronze medal with her best throw of 15.27m.
Uroy Ryan of Jamaica College leapt 7.42m to win the Class 1 Boys long jump, a mere six centimetres ahead of Demario Prince of St Jago High, whose best jump of 7.36m was good enough for the silver medal.
Trevon Hamer of Jamaica College won the bronze medal with his effort of 7.11.
Jamaica College also won the Class II Boys long jump as Michael Anderson soared out to 7.29m. It was a 1-2 finish for the school from Old Hope Road in Kingston as Euan Young won silver with a leap of 7.03m. Anthony Hall of B.B. Coke High jumped 6.95m to win the bronze medal.
On the track, Ainsley Campbell of Kingston College won the Class 1 Boys 1500m in 4:02.63 over Carlando Chambers of St Jago High, who crossed the finish line in 4:04.16 while Jamaica College’s Kemarrio Bygrave was third in 4:05.26.
The other record to fall on Wednesday was Natoya Goule’s 13-year-old Class 1 Girls 1500m standard off 4:29.42 that was broken by Holmwood Technical’s Jodyann Mitchell, who ran 4:29.42 to win the gold medal.
Kishay Rowe of Alphansus Davis took the silver in 4:30.29. Danielle King of Hydel claimed the final podium spot when she crossed the finish line in 4:35.57.
The Boys Class II 1500m final was won by Brian Kiprop in a Kingston College 1-2 finish. Kiprop ran 4:07.46 just ahead of his teammate Nahashon Ruto (4:07.64). Yoshane Bowen of Magotty High School won the bronze running 4:11.52.
In a stirring finish in the Class II Girls 1500m, which saw the first two competitors cross the line together, Edwin Allen’s Monique Stewart came from behind to nip Holmwood Technical’s Cindy Rose. Both were credited with 4:41.43 but the photo-finish determined that Stewart had won by 0.01 seconds ahead of her rival.
Misha-Jade Samuel of St. Jago High was third in 4:53.53.
Carlos Brison-Caines of Calabar High ran 4:18.18 to win the Class III Boys 1500m holding off a stern challenge from Jayden Brown of Maggotty High, who ran 4:18.26 for the silver medal. Yohance Carty Jamaica College finished third in 4:33.88.
The Class III Girls race was won by Alikay Reynolds of Alphansus Davies. She ran 4:46.36 and was a comfortable winner over Kededra Coombs of St. Jago High, who ran 4:49.07 for the silver medal. Her teammate Tabbrel Williams was third in 4:49.42.
