GC Foster College won both the men’s and women’s titles at the 54th staging of the two-day VMBS/Intercol Track and Field and Cheerleading Championships, which ended at the Usain Bolt/UWI track yesterday.

GC Foster College scored 201 points in the women’s category to win ahead of UTech Jamaica, who ended on 189, followed by UWI Mona with 127.5, Mico with 68, and CASE rounding out the top five with 45.5 points.

In the men’s category, GC Foster College tallied 195 points to defeat UWI Mona with 182, UTech Jamaica on 176, Excelsior Community College on 42, and Mico rounding out the top five with 31.5 points.

CASE emerged rural champions in the women’s category, while Knox Community College were rural champions in the men’s category with 18.5 points.

Double record holder Roxcine Salmon of GC Foster was the champion girl, while Webster Chung of GC Foster College and UTech Jamaica’s Ricardo Cunningham shared the champion boy honour.

Meanwhile, 10 records were established at the meet.

Salmon, after recovering from her 3,000-metre record on Friday, broke her own record from last year in the 3,000-metre steeplechase, taking off 5.10 seconds off the old mark after she ran 11 minutes 45.50 seconds.

UTech Jamaica’s Megan Simmonds raced to a new time of 13.28 seconds in the 100-metre hurdles, while her teammate Rusheen McDonald shaved three-hundredth of a second off Nicholas Maitland’s 2013 400-metre record, clocking 45.96 seconds into a strong head wind.

In the field, GC Foster College’s Raymond Brown put the shot to a new mark of 20.35 metres, erasing UTech Jamaica’s Odayne Richards’ 2012 mark of 19.58 metres in his fifth attempt.

He has earlier set a new mark of 19.74 metres with his fourth attempt.

GC Foster College’s 1,600-metre sprint medley set a new time 3 minutes 20.37 seconds, while UTech Jamaica’s women sprint relay team removed the 44.20 seconds set Friday evening to a scorching 43.84 seconds.

UTech Jamaica’s Simoya Campbell prevailed over Roxcine Salmon in the 1,500-metre in 5 minutes 02.26 seconds, to 5 minutes 03.15 seconds, and teammate Ricardo Chambers took the men’s equivalent in 4 minutes 03.19, after passing Mico’s Selvin Facey on the homestretch.

UWI Mona’s Delano Williams was three-hundredth of a second outside the 200-metre men’s record, winning in 20.96 seconds to teammate Jason Young’s 21.09 seconds, while UTech Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison (23.51 seconds) was ahead teammate Elaine Thompson (23.55 seconds) running into a strong head wind of -3.7 metres per second.

Jenieve Russell of UTech Jamaica won the women’s 400m in 52.60 seconds, while the women’s triple jump was won by Andrea Goodin, also of UTech Jamaica, with a leap of 11.91m, as GC Foster’s Tasha-Gaye Bailey won the high jump with 1.70 metres.

Safia Clennon (CASE) and Misha-Gaye Dacastor (UWI) with 1.65 metres tied for second.

— Everard Owen