JAMAICA failed to add to its medal tally on Sunday’s final day of the World Athletics Indoor Championships at Glasgow Arena in Scotland, finishing with three bronze medals won earlier.

Despite high expectations, Jamaica failed to defend their women’s 4x400m relay title after a dropped baton in the final denied them their best chance of another podium place. Meanwhile, horizontal jumpers Kimberly Williams and Tissanna Hickling failed to medal, and Megan Tapper failed to get into the final of the women’s 60m hurdles.

Ackeem Blake won Jamaica’s first medal on Friday’s opening day when he was third in the Men’s 60m, while long jumper Carey McLeod and quarter-miler Rusheen McDonald also picked up bronze medals on Saturday.

The women’s 4x400m team was well set to challenge for a medal when Charokee Young, who ran the third leg, stopped running after she lost control of the baton, dashing the hopes of the team and the nation.

The Jamaican coaches had made two changes to the team that had run 3:27.35 minutes in the preliminary rounds earlier in the day, as Lanae-Tava Thomas, who ran the lead-off leg, replaced Junelle Bromfield while Stacy Ann Williams, who was due to run the anchor leg, replaced Leah Anderson.

Thomas, who was making her first appearance in Jamaican colours after switching allegiance from the USA, ran a strong first leg and handed over to Andrenette Knight before the baton was passed to Young.

Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams competes in the women’s triple jump final during the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)

The Netherlands won their first-ever gold medal in the event, running 3:25.07 minutes and beating the USA (3:25.34), with Great Britain third in a second national record of the day with 3:26.36.

Three-time World Indoor medallist Kimberly Williams finished seventh in the women’s triple jump with a best mark of 14.07m. It was her season’s best as Thea Lafond of Dominica won her first global gold medal with a world-leading and personal best 15.01m.

Hickling finished 10th in the women’s long jump with a season’s best 6.43m, as American Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold with a mark of 7.07m while her compatriot Monae Nichols took silver with 6.85m. Spain’s Fatima Diame was third with 6.78m.

Tapper’s quest for her first World Indoor Championships medal ended at the semi-final stage as she finished third in her race in 8.00 seconds.

Tapper had qualified from the first round earlier in the morning with 8.05 seconds, also for third place.

The Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton broke her world record with 7.65 seconds. She previously held it jointly with American Tia Jones when they both clocked 7.67 seconds in separate meets in February.