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Favourites and eight-time champions, Calabar High School, was in smashing form in the 4x100m Championship of Americas High School Boys qualifiers on the opening day of the 129th Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
The Red Hills Road based boys sped to 40.24 seconds to win their heat and will go into Friday’s final with the fastest time.
Wayne Walker tells us more.
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Six other Jamaican schools are through to Friday’s final including Kingston College who logged 40.70 seconds
Jamaica College’s 41.04 seconds, defending champions Excelsior 41.08 seconds, Edwin Allen High, 41.35 seconds, William Knibb Memorial 41.38 and St. Elizabeth Technical, 41.49 seconds, also made the cut.
The boys 4x800m Championships of Americas finals on Friday will have new champions as Jamaica College failed to make it into the top 12
The final will have three Jamaican schools in Edwin Allen High along with former champions Kingston College and Calabar High.
Edwin Allen finished third in their heat with 7:49.99 seconds, Kingston College won their heat in 7:50.06 seconds while Calabar High were fourth in their heat in 7:50.76 seconds.
Jamaica College were 14th overall in 7:51.20 seconds, while Holmwood Technical, 7:56.64 seconds, also failed to make progress.
Meanwhile, Despiro Wray of Kingston College won the Shot Put with a Penn Relays record throw 20. 87metres, capping a fine year in which he also won at Boys and Girls Champs and the Carifta Games.
He led a Jamaican 1-2-3 finish with Munro College’s Devonte Edwards second with 19-point 78m and Cornwall College’s Mar-Lando Farquharson third with 19-point 67m.
It was the same order of finish in the Class 1 finals at Champs.
St. Elizabeth Tech’s Rikoy Hunter won the high school boys’ long jump with a leap of 7.30m.
Calabar’s Romaine Lewis finished second with 7.22m, Petersfield’s Sevien Lawrence was fifth with 7.08m and Cornwall College’s Kenomar Jones was sixth with 7.06m.
Photo credit: SPORTSMAX
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