MONTEGO BAY, St James — Jamaica’s Michael O’Hara is rated in three events on the recently released IAAF youth rankings as the countdown to the eighth World Youth Championships continues.

O’Hara is expected to be a part of the Jamaican team that will compete at the event to be held in the Ukrainian industrial city of Donetsk between July 10 and 14, and is ranked in the 100m, 200m and 110m hurdles. Jamaica won nine medals, including four gold medals, in the most recent championships, held in Lille, France in 2011, equalling their best overall total ever.

Fourteen Jamaicans are in the first rankings published recently with quarter-milers Devaughn Baker and Yanique McNeil, along with sprint hurdler Yanique Thompson, leading their respective events. The Supreme Ventures National Junior Trials are set for June 15-16 at the National Stadium.

O’Hara, who won three gold medals for Calabar High at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ Championships in March, is ranked second in the 110m hurdles with his personal best of 13.45 seconds, and at number four in both the 100m and 200m events.

His times in the sprints are 10.49 seconds and 21.06 seconds, respectively, while Baker is at number 10 in the 200m with 21.45 seconds.

Two other Jamaicans, Jaheel Hyde and Jordan Chin, are at number five and eight in the hurdles ranking, espectively.

Baker’s 46.64 seconds in the 400m is tops in the world currently, while Hyde also appears in third place with 46.93 seconds, and Martin Manley in fourth with 46.95 seconds.

Christoff Bryan, who is undefeated all season, winning the high jump in Class One at Champs, the Carifta Games and the Penn Relays, is at number two on the IAAF list with his season-best 2.19m.

McNeil’s 53.17 seconds makes her the best female youth 400m runner in the world presently, while Tifanny James is ranked sixth overall with 54.29 seconds.

Thompson, meanwhile, has the two best times so far in the 100m hurdles with 13.44 seconds and 13.51 seconds.

Andrenetta Knight is second in the 400m hurdles with 59.67 seconds, while Jehvania Whyte-Vidal is fourth in the high jump with 1.82m.

Tamara Moncrieff, who jumped 12.95m at the Carifta Games, is the fifth-ranked triple jumper on the list.

The Jamaicans have some catching up to do in the sprints, however, with Shauna Helps ranked number five in the 100m with 11.56 seconds followed by Wolmer’s Girls’ teammate Jonielle Smith, sixth with 11.58 seconds, and Thompson at number nine with 11.64 seconds.

Taqece Duggan is the best-placed Jamaican in the 200m at number nine with 23.77 seconds.