RANDALLS ISLAND, New York — Jamaican high school teams failed to win any event at Saturday’s Adidas Classic at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island, the fifth stop in the new IAAF Diamond League series.

After dominating the Penn Relays in Philadelphia in April, the Jamaicans, who sent weakened teams to the meet, were forced to play second fiddle to their opponents from the United States and Trinidad.

With the meet clashing with the two-day Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association’s (JAAA) National Junior Championships, the Jamaican teams were left depleted.

Holmwood Technical were fourth in the high school girls 4x400m relay in 3 minutes 48.66 seconds behind a squad from Queen’s, New York, while St Jago finished last.

Wolmer’s Boys’ were third in the high school boys 4x400m after Camperdown were disqualified for a false start.

Meanwhile, World Indoor champion Veronica Campbell Brown ran her fastest time in the 200m in two years to beat American rival Allyson Felix in the half-lap race.

Campbell Brown, who led from the start to hold off the fast-finishing Felix, recorded a world-leading and meet record 21.98 seconds (1.4 m/s), while Felix clocked 22.03. American Bianca Knight was third in 22.59.

Jamaicans won one race and took two second places through quarter-miler Shericka Williams and Yohan Blake in the men’s 100m.

Despite the presence of several world leaders, Olympic and World Championships medallists, especially in the field events, there was a feeling of anti-climax as both double world record-holder Usain Bolt and American rival Tyson Gay pulled out of the meet with injuries.

The announcement of Bolt’s participation had caused a rush on tickets months earlier as rack fans anticipated his first clash of the season with Gay in the short sprint.

Their withdrawal left the 200m as the premier event on the schedule and Campbell Brown, whose previous season best and world-leading time was 22.32 seconds, duly obliged with a well executed race and her new coach Anthony Carpenter thinks she is on the right track.

This was Campbell Brown’s second win here in the last three years as she won the 100m in 2008 when the meet was called the Reebok Classic and was second to Carmelita Jeter in the 100m last year.

In the men’s 100m A race, Blake mis-timed the finish, lifting his right hand a few steps from the line and was edged by Trinidad’s Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson in a wind-aided 8.89 seconds to 9.91 (+2.4 m/s).

Blake, who was to Thompson’s left in lane three, started celebrating by lifting his hand just as he approached the line and was edged, but said he thought he “executed the race well and should have won”.

Blake’s Racers Club training partner Daniel Bailey was third in 9.92 seconds.

Olympic and World Championships silver medallist Williams clocked 51.24 seconds for second behind Botswana’s Amantie Monthsho, 50.79.

Shereefa Lloyd was third in 51.64 with Rosemarie Whyte fourth in 51.70 and Melocia Clarke eighth in 53.60.

World Junior Championships 200m silver medallist Nickel Ashmeade failed to complete the men’s 100m B race, pulling up just past the 70m mark, grabbing the back of his left thigh.

American Ray Edwards won the race in a personal best 10.00 seconds, beating Trinidadian duo of Keston Bledman-10.01 and Marc Burns- 10.11.

Delloreen Ennis-London and Vonette Dixon were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 100m hurdles in 12.71 and 12.75.

The in-form American Lolo Jones won in a world-leading 12.55, while Canadian Perdita Felicien was second in a season best 12.58.

Isa Phillips was fifth in the men’s 400m hurdles in 48.98 seconds as America’s Kerron Clement won in a meet record 47.86 ahead of Bershawn Jackson, 47.94.