BY PAUL A REID

Observer writer

reidp@jamaicaobserver.com

Eight records including both long jump marks were broken and one equalled at last Saturday’s 39th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays at the National Stadium.

Despite not contesting the Class One 4x100m and the 4x400m open, Kingston College relay teams won six events, including three 4x200m races, while Edwin Allen High ruled the girls’ relays winning four of the seven races on offer.

Kingston College who are expected to push Calabar High for top spot at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ & Girls’ Champs later this month, won the 4x100m relays in Class Three and Class Four, the 4x200m in Class One, Class Three and Class Four, as well as the 4x800m where they set a new meet record 7 minutes 33.87 seconds.

St Elizabeth Technical, who had the old record of 7 minutes 34.96 seconds set in 1994, were also under that time as they ran 7 minutes 34.78 seconds, with defending champions Holmwood Technical in third place.

In addition to winning the 4x100m in Class One where they broke their own one-year-old record, Calabar won the Class Two 4x100m as well as the Class Two 4x200m.

Edwin Allen added the 4x200m open and 4x400m open to the Class Two and Class Four 4x100m titles they had won earlier, as St Jago High won two relays — the 4x100m in Class One and Class Three.

Nicholas Gordon produced the second best legal jump of the year when he broke the long jump record with 7.95m (1.7m/s), breaking the old 7.86m set by Jermaine Jackson in 2009.

India’s Ankit Sharma leads the IAAF outdoors list with 8.04m set on February 10 in Thiruvanathapuram.

Gordon jumped 7.95m twice, in the first and second rounds, but the second was aided by an illegal win of 4.8 metres per second.

UTech’s Shanieka Thomas set the new mark in the women’s event with 6.63m (0.6m/s) passing the 6.39m set by former Tacius Golding jumper Kedine Geddes in 2004.

Both clubs/institutions’ mile relays records were broken as the UTech women’s team ran 3 minutes 29.87 seconds, just a shade under the 3:29.88 seconds set last year by a Racers TC team.

The Racers Lions team clocked 3 minutes 03.18 seconds to beat the 3 minutes 03.74 seconds another Racers TC team set two years ago.

The record in the masters men’s 4x100m was also lowered as the Can/Jam Masters team won in 43.82 seconds to erase the 44.4 seconds set by Ocho Rios Masters in 2011.

Event 1 Boys’ 4×400-Metre Relay HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 St Jago High School 3:09.71

2 STETHS 3:11.87

3 Jamaica College 3:13.52

Event 2 Men’s 4×400-Metre Relay CLUBS & INSTITUTIONS Finals

1 Racers Lions 3:03.18R

2 UTech 3:04.06

3 Cameron Blazers 3:05.48

Event 3 Girls’ 4×400-Metre Relay HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Edwin Allen 3:39.00

2 Holmwood Tech 3:41.23

3 STETHS 3:41.31

Event 4 Women’s 4×400-Metre Relay CLUBS & INSTITUTIONS Finals

1 UTech 3:29.87R

2 Sprintec 3:32.53

3 GC Foster College 3:42.63

Event 5 Boys’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 4 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 44.44

2 St Jago High School 46.12

3 Calabar High School 46.21

Event 6 Boys’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 3 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 43.09

2 St Jago High School 43.12

3 Jamaica College 43.51

Event 7 Men Long Jump Finals

1 Gordon, Nicholas 7.95mR

2 Fuller, Kamal Eagles Track Club 7.55m

3 Waysome, Obrian JC 7.53m

Event 8 Women’s High Jump Finals

1 Abdulqadir, Hanifah St Jago High 1.75m

1 Morgan, Safia Immaculate 1.75m

3 Marshall, Shanice GC Foster 1.70m

3 Distin, Lamara Rusea’s High 1.70m

3 Dacosta, Meisha Gay UWI Mona 1.70m

Event 9 Boys’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 2 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Calabar High School 40.86

2 Kingston College 41.42

3 Jamaica College 41.72

Event 10 Boys’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 1 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Calabar High School 39.32R

2 St Jago High School 39.80

3 STETHS 40.30

Event 11 Men’s 4×100-Metre Relay CLUBS & INSTITUTIONS Finals

1 UTech 38.23

2 Racers Lions 38.29

3 Akan Track Club 39.59

Event 12 Women’s 4×100-Metre Relay CLUBS & INSTITUTIONS Finals

1 UTech 43.13R

2 Racers Track Club 43.75

3 Sprintec 44.24

Event 13 Boys’ 4×100-Metre Relay AA ALL AGE & JNR HIGH Finals

1 John Mills 46.46

2 Windward Road Pri 46.95

3 Swallowfield 47.16

Event 14 Girls’ 4×100-Metre Relay AA ALL AGE & JNR HIGH Finals

1 Windward Road Pri 51.07

2 John Mills 52.31

3 Melrose JNR. High 54.85

Event 15 Girls’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 1 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 St Jago High 45.24

2 Edwin Allen 45.57

3 Wolmer’s Girls’ School 46.27

Event 16 Girls’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 2 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Edwin Allen 45.01R

2 Green Island 46.11

3 St Jago High 46.40

Event 17 Girls’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 3 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 St Jago High 45.87

2 Hydel High 47.17

3 Edwin Allen 47.58

Event 18 Men’s Pole Vault Finals

1 Shaw, Shaquelle KC 4.00m

2 Lewis, Hugh 3.80m

3 Franz, Arnold KC 3.70m

Event 19 Girls’ 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 4 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Edwin Allen 47.74

2 St Jago High 47.98

3 Wolmer’s Girls’ School 48.49

Event 20 Boys’ 4×200-Metre Relay CLASS 4 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 1:36.33

2 Wolmer’s Boys’ School 1:38.13

3 St Jago High School 1:38.67

Event 21 Boys’ 4×200-Metre Relay CLASS 3 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 1:32.26

2 Wolmer’s Boys’ School 1:34.05

3 Dinthill Tech 1:34.52

Event 22 Boys’ 4×200-Metre Relay CLASS 2 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Calabar High School 1:27.53

2 St Jago High School 1:27.83

3 Munro College 1:29.55

Event 23 Boys’ 4×200-Metre Relay CLASS 1 HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 1:24.96

2 Camperdown 1:27.24

3 Herbert Morr 1:27.32

Event 24 Women’s Long Jump Finals

1 Thomas, Shanieka UWI Mona 6.63mR

2 Noble, Jessica UTech 5.99m

3 Hickling, Tisanna St Jago 5.90m

Event 25 Men’s High Jump Finals

1 Brown, Clayton JC 2.10m

2 Douglas, Romario St. Jago 2.05m

2 Robertson, Akeem UWI Mona 2.05m

Event 26 Girls’ 4×200-Metre Relay HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Edwin Allen 1:35.63

2 St Catherine 1:36.97

3 Hydel High 1:37.29

Event 27 Boys’ 4×200-Metre Relay AA ALL AGE & JNR HIGH Finals

1 John Mills 1:37.90

2 Swallowfield 1:39.97

3 Fellowship 1:46.63

Event 28 Girls’ 4×200-Metre Relay AA ALL AGE & JNR HIGH Finals

1 Swallowfield 1:53.30

2 Louise Bennett 1:54.01

3 Osborne Store 1:58.40

Event 29 Men’s 1 Mile Run Finals

1 Oliver, Darryl UTech 4:22.21

2 Dawson, Chadoye UTech 4:23.83

3 Walker, Kajay Holmwood Tech 4:26.85

Event 30 Women’s 1 Mile Run Finals

1 James, Samantha UTech 5:07.34

2 James, Danielle Sprintec 5:09.24

3 Jacobs, Teresha Edwin Allen 5:11.34

Event 31 Boys’ Under-10 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 2 PREP SCHOOL Finals

1 Vaz Prep 55.99

2 Emmanuel 57.89

3 St Peter & Paul 57.94

Event 32 Boys’ Under-10 4×100-Metre Relay CLASS 2 PRIMARY SCHOOL Finals

1 Naggo Head Primary 54.35

2 Angels Primary School 57.38

3 St Benedicts Primary 57.78

Event 33 Boys’ Under-12 4×100-Metre Relay PRIMARY SCHOOL Finals

1 Naggo Head Primary 51.29

2 Lyssons Primary 51.95

3 New Providence 52.29

Event 34 Boys’ Under-12 4×100-Metre Relay PREP SCHOOL Finals

1 Hydel Prep School 51.85

2 Vaz Prep 52.05

3 Knox Junior School 52.53

Event 35 Girls’ Under-12 4×100-Metre Relay PREP SCHOOL Finals

1 Hydel Prep School 54.19

2 Vaz Prep 54.63

3 Lannamans Prep School 55.47

Event 36 Girls’ Under-12 4×100-Metre Relay PRIMARY SCHOOL Finals

1 Naggo Head Primary 53.72

2 St Catherine Primary 54.33

3 Lyssons Primary 54.75

Event 37 Men’s 1600 Sprint Medley CLUBS & INSTITUTIONS Finals

1 Cameron Blazers 3:23.34

2 GC Foster College 3:25.07

3 UTech 3:27.44

Event 38 Men’s 4×100-Metre Relay MASTERS Finals

1 Can/Jam Masters 43.82R

2 Big Brothers Masters 44.62

3 Express Masters 46.90

Event 39 Men’s 4×100-Metre Relay SPECIAL OLYMPICS Finals

1 National Team 47.29

2 St Catherine 47.56

3 Clarendon B 47.79

Event 40 Boys’ 4×800-Metre Relay HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Kingston College 7:33.87R

2 STETHS 7:34.78R

3 Holmwood Tech 7:39.44

Event 41 Girls’ 4×800-Metre Relay HIGH SCHOOL Finals

1 Holmwood Tech 8:54.55

2 Vere Tech 9:02.95

3 Spalding High school 9:13.06

Event 42 Men’s 100-Metre Dash Finals

1 Tracey, Tyquendo UTech 10.34

2 McFarlane, Kwisi UTech 10.40

3 Bailey, Oshane AKAN 10.43

Event 43 Men’s 400-Metre Dash Finals

1 Clarke, Andre GC Foster 46.82

2 Miller, Marzel GC Foster 48.11

3 Walcott, Joshua Blade Track Club 49.22

Event 44 Women’s 100-Metre Dash Finals

1 Williams, Christine UTech 11.30

2 Kelly, Jenelle UTech 11.54

3 English, Shaneil St Jago High 11.63

Event 45 Women’s 400-Metre Dash Finals

1 James, Tiffany Papine High 53.86

2 Day, Janique M V P 53.92

3 Frater, Sashel St Jago High 58.91

PHOTO: 4X800

Members of Holmwood Technical’s 4X800-metre relay team share a photo opportunity after winning their event at the 39th Gibson McCook Relays at the National Stadium on Saturday. (PHOTOS: BRYAN CUMMINGS)