BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, March 26, 2015
HYDEL High's Shadea Lawrence won the girls' Class One discus with a personal best throw of 48.66m to repeat as champion on day two of the GraceKennedy ISSA Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships at the National Stadium yesterday.
Second in the event was Excelsior High's Shaniece Love (48.01m), while third went to Paul-Anne Gayle of Edwin Allen (47.87).
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| Hydel's Shadea Lawrence |
Meanwhile, Edwin Allen's Rochelle Frazer stayed on course to win a third-straight girls' Class One shot put event after easily qualifying in yesterday's preliminaries.
Frazer threw 12.45m to finish second behind St Andrew Technical's Ayesha Champagnie (12.70m) with Spalding's Tavia Dixon (12.15m), the only other thrower over 12.00m yesterday.
Frazer's teammate Janelle Fullerton is also expected to be among the medallists as well as Vere Technical's Kiona Bradshaw and Excelsior's Latifah Smith.
Meanwhile today, the preliminaries of the 1,500m in Classes one, two and three will be contested as well as the javelin Open first round, semi-finals of the 800m and the 4x400m relays.
Lamara Distin of Rusea's High, who was second in the Class Three high jump and leads with 1.65m so far this year, is among the 14 qualifiers for the event after yesterday's preliminaries.
Janique Burgher of Edwin Allen, who beat Distin at Western Relays, is also a medal contender as well as her teammate Annia Ashley and Herbert Morrison's Western Champs gold medallist Shyanne Smith.
In the only 800m event that was contested yesterday, Edwin Allen's Cemore Donald clocked 2:12.93 to lead the qualifiers with Spalding High's Kimone Campbell (2:14.93) and Albert Town's Kelly-Ann Beckford (2:16.49). Also advancing are Rusea's High's Tara Bert the Western Champs record holder and Albert Town's Tasinia Mothersill.
The road to what is expected to be an exciting set of 100m finals tomorrow starts this morning with the first rounds of the short sprint starting at 10:45.
Defending champions Edwin Allen High and St Jago are expected to dominate the events, each expecting to win two gold medals.
There will be a lot of speed on display on the blue track today. Among the sizzling events are the semi-finals of the 200m, with the finals set for Saturday, the final day of competition.
Edwin Allen High's Saqukine Cameron, who stepped down from the 200m/400m double to the 100m/200m double in Class One, will start favourite with the withdrawal of Wolmer's Girls' Shauna Helps, who failed to show for the 200m heats yesterday.
Helps won the Class Two 100m last year and was expected to feature this year, especially after running 11.66 seconds earlier. more
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