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Caribbean Life, April 21-27, 2022
111th ISSA Championship ‘tremendous success’: World Athletics
By Nelson A. King
World Athletic said on Sunday
that the 111th staging of the
ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and
Girls’ Athletics Championships
(Champs) in Kingston, Jamaica,
held from April 5-9, was “a tremendous
success.”
“With the World Athletics
U20 Championships Cali 22 on
the horizon, many athletes produced
inspired performances as
11 records were broken and two
equaled over the final two days
of competition, including all the
sprint hurdles across the four age
groups in the girls’ section,” World
Athletics said.
“The event marked the return of
spectators for the first time since
2019, following the global pandemic
that began in 2020,” it added.
“And title sponsors GraceKennedy
Limited pledged JA$88 million
(US$570,000) in sponsorship for
this year’s edition.”
World Athletics said Kingston
College and Edwin Allen High
School were crowned winners
after amassing 372 and 352 points,
respectively.
It said leading the performances
was 17-year-old Kerrica Hill of
Hydel High, who completed the
sprints/hurdles double.
She won the 100m hurdles
(76.2cm barriers) in a stunning
world U18 best of 12.71 (0.8m/s),
World Athletics said.
Earlier in the championships, it
said she won the 100m flat in 11.16
(1.2m/s) to equal the championship
records in the girls’ class two
category, moving to joint seventh
on the world U18 all-time list.
“I just came out here to show
everyone what I can do as I have
been training very hard with Brianna
(Lyston) and Alana (Reid),
who came second,” said Hill, who
finished seventh in the 100m and
first in the 4x100m at the World
U20 Championships in Nairobi last
year.
“I am very happy as this was my
aim to get both records,” added
Hill. “I hope to carry this form
into the World U20 Championships.”
World Athletics said the stage
was set for “an epic showdown”
in the 100m for girls, aged 17-18,
between the Clayton twins (Tina
and Tia) and the returning Brianna
Lyston of Hydel High.
Lyston missed last year’s edition
From left: Tina Clayton, Brianna Lyston and Tia Clayton at the Boys’ and Girls’ Championship. World
Athletics/Athelstan Bellamy
due to the Jamaican high school
transfer eligibility rule, which
states athletes (below 12th grade)
who switched schools during the
year must sit out the next championship,
World Athletics said.
“Lyston, who ran 11.14 in
March, created an uproar with a
scintillating semi-final victory in
11.28 (-1.6 m/s), where she defeated
world U20 champion Tina Clayton,
who looked unperturbed,” World
Athletics said.
“In a thrilling final, Lyston, who
was sandwiched between the Clayton
twins drawn in lanes four
and lane six, got a decent start,
although not as explosive as the
one a few hours earlier,” it added.
“She held a slight advantage all
the way through to the 70-metre
mark, until the sheer power and
determination of Tina Clayton
propelled her past Lyston for a
remarkable victory in 11.23 (-2.8
m/s),” World Athletics continued.
“Lyston made sure she separated
the twins at the finish, registering
11.26 for the silver with Tia taking
bronze in 11.47.”
“It was a great final,” said Tina.
“There was a lot of competition,
but this is an energy-saving championship,
so I held back in the
semis knowing that I did not need
to push hard to qualify. I gave it
my all in the final, and I’m grateful
for the win.”
The Clayton twins joined Brandy
Hall and Serena Cole to set a
world U20 leading 43.28 in the
4x100m, World Athletics said.
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