JAMAICAN sprinters Audra Segree and Gayon Evans won the silver and bronze medals in the women’s 100m as the track and field programme of the First APA Pan-American Olympic Festival got under way at Pallilo Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday.

Segree clocked 11.57 seconds behind Ecuador’s Angela Tenorio, who won the gold in 11.48 seconds, while Evans was third in 11.72 seconds.

Tenorio won two medals in the women’s sprints at the recent IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, and drew attention after her appeal against a disqualification was upheld and she had to run her first-round race by herself, hours after the rounds were completed.

The Jamaica outfit is being represented by 37 athletes at the twoday track and field section of the festival that started in July and will run through to September, with 29 disciplines being contested. Forty-one countries including the United States, Cuba, hosts Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, Barbados and Colombia are talking part in the festival.

The Jamaican team is Oshane Bailey, Bernardo Brady, Winston Barnes, Odean Skeen, Sheldon Mitchell, Jermaine Brown, Chumaine Fitten, Alvin Green, Akeem Williams, Allodin Fothergill, Kegan Campbell, Miguel Barton, Adrian Tulloch, Deuce Carter, Isa Phillips, Josef Robertson, Xavier Boland, Ashawn Wright, Audra Segree, Gayon Evans, Lesline Gilzene, Shermaine Williams, Andrea Bliss, Venicha Baker, Anastacia Leroy, Bobby-Gay Wilkins, Jonique Day, Samantha Curtis, Shevon Stoddart, Nickesha Wilson, Sheree Francis, Tarasue Barnett, Shanice Brown, Geneeva Greaves, Devene Brown, Gleneve Grange. The management and coaching staff consist of Merlene Hamilton, Mario Haughton, Winston Harvey, Clayde Grant, Dave Anderson, Linval Swaby, Rinnett Scareltt and Richard Watson.