OFF TO A BANG! XLCR High's Shantae Foreman breaks high jump record and Latifah Smith wins shot-put event & Warren Barrett earns World Junior Champs shot put qualifying mark with 19.40m at JC Meet

 BY HOWARD WALKER Observer Senior Reporters walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, January 10, 2016    
CALABAR High’s Warren Barrett Jnr threw down the gauntlet early by capturing the Class One discus and shot put double at the PureWater/ Jamaica College (JC) Track and Field Meet at Old Hope Road yesterday.

Latifah Smith of Excelsior High swivels on her way to winning
the Class One shot-put with a throw of 14.24m at the
 PureWater/JC Meet yesterday. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)

Barrett threw 19.40m and broke the shot put record of 18.98m set in 2012 by Calabar’s Ashina Miller and, more importantly, surpassed the 18.25m qualifying mark for the World Junior Championships set for Poland in July.

Barrett, formerly of Cornwall College, had behind Vashon McCarthy of JC with 17.27m and Kyle Mitchell of Calabar third with 16.72m.

Barrett also threw 54.78m and turned back Kino Dunkley of Munro College who did 52.49m and Vashon McCarthy of JC with 51.70m. World Championships discus finalist Fedrick Dacres of the University of the West Indies (UWI) won the men’s shot put with a throw of 17.35m and went close to O’Dayne Richard’s 2011 record of 17.84m.

Latifah Smith of Excelsior High heaved 14.24m to win the girls’ Class One shot put ahead of Janell Fullerton of St Jago with 14.19m.

Isheka Binns of UWI took the women’s shot put with 13.48m ahead of her teammate Dainelle Sutherland with 12.95m.

Gabrielle Bailey of St Andrew High captured the Class Two shot put with 14.57m ahead of Edwin Allen’s Fiona Richards with 14.20m.

Excelsior’s Shauntae Foreman was also among the record up to press time, capturing the Class Four high jump with a leap of 1.62m to erase the previous record set last year of 1.60m.

CALABAR High’s Warren Barrett Jnr

The promising Britnie Dixon of Vere Technical won the 3,000m event in 10:48.62 minutes ahead of Edwin Allen’s Teresha Jacobs in 10:50.92 minutes.

Garfield Gordon of Mavis Bank High romped to victory in the boys’ 5,000m, winning with consummate ease in 15:59.70 minutes, ahead of the KC pair of Shane Buchanan with 16:18.60 and Nicholas Elliott with 16:49.90 minutes.

St Jago’s Daayshanae Hall took the Class Four 70m hurdles time final in 11.54 seconds ahead of Chantel Williams of the Convent of Mercy, who won heat two in 11.74 seconds.

Kimone McCleod of St Jago won the Class Three 80m hurdles in 11.94 from heat two ahead of her teammate Rosealee Cooper who won heat three in 11.95 seconds. more