KC’s Nkrumie and Wolmer’s Girls’ Gardener win Class 1 100m at Corporate Area meet
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Kingston College’s Bouwahjgie Nkrumie and Wolmer’s Girls Mickayla Gardener won the Class 1 boys’and girls’ 100m titles respectively on Friday’s opening day of the two-day Corporate Area Development Meet held at the National Stadium.
Despite battling strong head winds of up to negative 6.8 metres per second, the sprinters produced good times ahead of the ISSA National Championships, set to start in another three weeks.
Nkrumie, who set a national Under- 20 record while placing second in the men’s 100m at last year’s World Under-20 Championships, obliged as the favourite, running 10.32 seconds (-1.3m/s) to win the Class 1 final, beating Jamaica College’s Jaiden Reid, who ran a personal best 10.51 seconds and Camperdown High’s Jason Lewis, who took third place in 10.77 seconds.
Calabar High’s Shaquane Gordon took the Class 2 gold medal with a personal best 10.92 (-1.5m/s), beating the Jamaica College pair of Dontae Watson- 11.00 seconds and Nathaniel Martin- 11.23 seconds.
Jamaica College’s Malique Dennis won the Class 3 100m with a lifetime best 11.39 second (-2.5m/s) to finish ahead of Calabar High’s Ronaldo Francis- 11.60 seconds and Kingston College’s Jashua Spence- 11.61 seconds.
Orandy Campbell was the second Kingston College athlete to win a 100m final, taking the Class 4 gold medal in 12.10 seconds (-3.5m/s), with two runners from St George’s College finishing behind him; Rushaun Dunn took the silver medal in 12.17 seconds and Naethan Bryan got the bronze in 12.38 seconds.
Gardener clocked 11.95 seconds (-3.9m/s) to take the girls’ Class 1 gold medal ahead of Immaculate Conception’s Essence Burbridge- 12.48 seconds and Excelsior High’s Mikela Coombs- 12.53 seconds.
Camperdown High’s Canelia Hope, won the Class 2 gold medal in 12.36 (-3.6m/s), beating Immaculate Conception’s Shevi Anne Shim- 12.49 seconds and St Andrew High’s Ayla Pessoa-Rollins-12.62 seconds.
Natrece East, the ISSA Champs Class 4 double sprint champion last year, won the Class 3 100m in 12.86 seconds (-6.8m/s), her teammate Tiana Marshall was second with 13.07 seconds and Kedoya Lindo of Immaculate Conception was third in 13.29 seconds.
It was also gold and silver for Immaculate Conception High in the Class 4 100m final with Kayla Johnson winning the gold in 12.83 seconds (-6.8m/s), Naje Brown was second with 13.23 seconds and Ashara Creary won the bronze with 13.51 seconds.
