Clayton Brown fulfilling 2015 dreams
Clayton Brown is well on his way to fulfilling his goals for 2015 as he has been named in both the teams to the Pan-American Junior track and field championships and the Pan-American Games team, both to be held in Canada in the coming weeks.
The Jamaica College sixth former had an outstanding two seasons, even if he has been able to stay under the radar, and won both high jump events at the JAAA Junior and Senior Championships in back-to-back weekends recently.
Last weekend he beat an out of form Christoff Bryan to take his first senior high jump title, days after winning the triple jump crown, and he said he was hoping for “world-class experience and to go up against top jumpers”.
So far he is on course and after beating Bryan for the second time in two seasons said while he did not get the height he wanted, he was happy with his consistency.
Brown, who also won the high jump at the Penn Relays this year after winning the triple jump last year, had set his personal best 2.20m at a JAAA All Comers meet, but managed “only” 2.15m two weeks later.
“This was not what I wanted, but it’s okay,” he told the Jamaica Observer on Sunday. “I was hoping for another personal best. Two weeks ago I cleared 2.20m and I wanted to beat that.”
Brown, who will return to high school next year, qualified for two events at last year’s IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon — the triple jump and the high jump, making the final in the latter with a then personal best 2.17m to finish 10th overall.