Three J’cans win at Arkansas GP
Three Jamaicans, Rajindra Campbell, Shawn Rowe and O’Brien Wasome were winners at Friday’s Trackwired Arkansas Grand Prix in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Campbell won the men’s shot put; Rowe took the men’s 400m hurdles, while Wasome won the men’s triple jump.
Campbell, the top Jamaican male shot putter this season, came from behind with a last-round 21.14m, his second-best mark, to beat the University of Arkansas’ Jordan West, who threw a personal best 20.76m.
Campbell’s best throw going into the final round was 20.63m.
Rowe ran 50.12 seconds to win the intermediate hurdles, beating Australian Chris Douglas- 51.47 seconds and Grant Williams of the University of Arkansas was third in a season’s best 52.94 seconds.
Wasome, the former Jamaica College and University of Texas representative, who is the second-best Jamaican male triple jumper so far this year, won with a wind-aided 16.82m (2.5m/s).
Wasome has a wind-legal 16.80m season best which ranks him 19th in the world and in a position to receive an invitation to the World Championships, in the event he does not get the 17.20m qualifying mark.
Jullane Walker jumped a season’s best 7.86m (1.4m/s) for second place in the men’s long jump, Ryan Brown of the University of Arkansas was third with a season’s best 7.72m (1.3m/s), while his teammate Shakwon Coke was fifth with 7.54m (1.4m/s).
Demar Francis of Baylor University was third in the men’s 400m in 45.86 seconds, while Joanne Reid of the University of Arkansas was fifth with 51.89 seconds.