PHILADELPHIA, USA — Christoffe Bryan of Wolmer’s Boys celebrated his 18th birthday by winning his third straight high school boys’ high jump title at the 120th Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, a record number of times for any one.

Bryan, who was a disappointing second at the CARIFTA Games in Martinique week before last weekend, made up by adding this title to two others he won in 2012 and 2013 and described his third-straight win as “a big deal”.

Jamaica College’s Clayton Brown won the triple jump, while his teammate Obrian Waysome and Edwin Allen’s Michane Ricketts were beaten on a last round jump by Dashawn Taylor of Middle Island High of New York.

After clearing just 2.12m to beat Chris Stone of Springfield High here in Pennsylvania, and Calabar’s Jabari Fairclough, Bryan told reporters he had some “back pains” but said after his “up and down season” was happy for the win.

Bryan, who said his “ultimate goal this year was to win a medal at the IAAF world Juniors” that will be held in Eugene, Oregon in July, passed the first three heights 1.92m, 1.96m and 2.00m, and cleared 2.03m and 2.06m on his first attempts to win the competition.

He then passed on 2.09m then cleared 2.12m on his first try before knocking down 2.18m on all three attempts.

Clayton Brown, who had beaten Bryan at the CARIFTA Games, won the triple jump with 15.35m and told the Jamaica Observer afterwards that “the competition was easy and I was in a little pain and so just did enough to win”.

Brown, second here last year, got the winning distance on his third try as Darrel Jones of Monroe-Woodbury of Mew York was second and Munro College’s Anthony Bailey third with 14.64m.

Wasom led the ripple jump going into the final round with 7.15m, but Edwin Allen’s Ricketts matched that mark on his last jump to take second place on the count back after Taylor, whose previous best was 7.14m done in the first round, went into the lead on his final jump.

Wasom then fouled his final jump to drop to third overall.