JAMAICAN sprint hurdler Andrew Riley clocked a personal best 6.71 seconds to break the Fighting Illini school record in the 60 metres at the weekend at the Illini Indoor Classic.

A senior at the University of Illinois, Champaign, the 23-year-old Calabar High past student who won the event rewrote the previous record by one-hundredth of a second in the preliminary heat.

Later in the final, Riley triumphed with 6.72 seconds ahead of compatriot Romel Lewis of Lincoln University in Missouri. Lewis timed 6.77 seconds.

American Kenneth Chambers of the University of Missouri, Columbia, finished third in 6.82 seconds.

Riley also clinched his pet event, the 60m hurdles, with a season-best 7.73 seconds, beating another Jamaican, Sabiel Anderson of Lincoln University, who finished second with 7.90 seconds. William Lindsey of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville placed third timing 8.06 seconds.

At the Great Dane Classic at the Armory Track & Field Center in New York, Ackeem Smith of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, ran a season-best 7.95 seconds to finish second in the 60m hurdles. Favio Vas won in a time of 7.92 seconds.

Kamal Fuller of the University of Alabama took the long jump at the Auburn Indoor Invitational in a season-best 7.71 metres, beating University of Mississippi’s Ricky Robertson, 7.45 metres, and the University of South Carolina’s Jarod Hutchen, 7.35 metres.

Chad Wright of the University of Nebraska threw a personal best 18.27 metres to place third in the shot put at Adidas Classic in Lincoln.

His Huskers teammates, Americans Luke Pinkelman and Tyler Hitchler, were one-two with throws of 19.39 and 18.54 metres respectively.