PHILADELPHIA, USA — Calabar High achieved a feat at the Penn Relays Carnival on Saturday that was last accomplished 69 years ago, winning three Championships of Americas relays titles.

The Michael Clarke-coached team smashed two records on their way to a fantastic trifecta — winning the 4x100m, 4x400m and 4x800m relays.

The 4X400m and 4X800m were done in new records in front of a reported 47,756 crowd on the final day for a three-day total of 108,755.

It was one of the best ever performances by Jamaican teams at the Relays Carnival since they started competing there just over 50 years ago.

The girls teams also won three relay events, while the Jamaican high school athletes combined to win eight individual events.

The last boys’ high school team to win three Championships of Americas finals was then powerhouse Bishop Laughlin of Brooklyn, New York which won the 4x400m, 4x800m and the Distance Medley Relays.

Bishop Laughlin broke one record then, running the Distance Relay in 10 minutes 47.9 seconds.

On Saturday, both Calabar High who ran 7:26.09 minutes, more than three minutes faster than the Bishop Laughlin team did nearly 70 years ago, dethroned champions St Elizabeth Technical, who ran a school record 7:27.54 minutes, ran under the old record of 7:30.67 set in 2009 by Albermarle High of Virginia.

After running 39.51 seconds to retain their 4x100m title to join Camperdown High and Kingston College, the team of Malik James-King (47.6), Anthony Carpenter (45.5), Shemar Chambers (45.82), Christopher Taylor (44.84) brought the house down with a scintillating 3:03.79 minutes run in the 4x400m.

The new time was nearly five seconds under the 3:08.59 they had run a year earlier and beating the high school world record 3:05.04 seconds they had set in mid-February in Kingston.

Two other schools — Petersfield High (3:09.50) and Kingston College (3:09.60) — also ran under the 3:10.00 barrier.

Petersfield High’s time was the sixth fastest time ever run at the Penn Relays and Kingston College’s the seventh, giving them two of the top 10 times ever run here.

On Friday, three Jamaican schools retained their titles — Edwin Allen in the 4x100m, Hydel High School in the 4x400m and Holmwood Technical in the 4x800m.

Kingston College’s Wayne Pinnock’s 7.88m broke the 24-year-old record 7.69m set by former Calabar High athlete Maurice Wignall in 1994.

Rhodes Hall High’s Rovane Williams won the 400m hurdles, Cornwall College’s Owayne Owens won the triple jump, Kai Chang of Calabar High won the discus throw, Lushane Wilson of St Jago retained his high jump title while Kingston College’s Rasheeda Downer won the shot put.

The Edwin Allen High pair of Lotavia Brown won the high school girls triple jump, while Janique Burger retained the high jump title.