ANGELS, St Catherine — Munro College’s Javontae Smith broke two meet records, including a World Under-18 leading 19.16m effort in the boys Class 2 shot put during the 46th staging of the Western Relays at GC Foster College on Saturday.

Smith, who was defending both the shot put and discus titles, won the latter with a personal best 55.85m, the third best in the world at the men’s Under-18 level.

Chief organiser Ray Harvey said it was “tremendous” that six records were broken and one equalled at the meet.

He was pleased that the meet ended ahead of the scheduled 6:00pm finish.

“We were well oversubscribed in a lot of the individual events, especially the field events, and we thought we would run late. [But] the officials, especially those in the marshal area, performed magic and kept us on course.”

The athletes also delivered in a massive way.

Smith, who won the Class 2 shot put at last year’s Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Championships and the County of Cornwall Athletics Western Champs, sent a big signal that he will be hard to beat this season.

He smashed the 18.45m he set at the meet last year — when throws were first introduced there — after registering 18.66m in the first round. None of his efforts went under 18.28m.

Smith, who had also won the double at the recent STETHS Invitational, broke his previous best of 18.80m set at last year’s Carifta Games when he threw 19.02m in the third round. He then bettered that with 19.15m in the fifth and then threw 19.16m to end a fantastic competition.

Later, in the discus throw, he broke the one-year-old 53.28m record that he set with 55.85m in the first round. It was exactly two metres better than his previous best 53.85m set last year at Carifta Trials.

National Under-20 record holder, Marla-Kay Lampart of Clarendon College, broke her girls Class 1 shot put record, throwing 14.13m to beat the 13.69m she set in 2024.

Edwin Allen High’s Shamoyea Morris erased the Class 1 girls discus throw record when she threw 48.96m. It broke the 46.13m set last year by Clarendon College’s Carla-Kay Brown when Lampart was second with 45.14m.

Edwin Allen High’s Amoya Howell clocked 10.75 seconds (0.7m/s) to win the girls Class 4 70m hurdles, breaking the previous record of 11.07 that was held by both Gabrielle Matthews of Hydel High (2017) and Edwin Allen High’s Kelly-Ann Kerr (2020).

Titchfield High’s exciting Shavan Jarrett broke the six-year-old men’s 800m Open record when he hit the tape at 1:52.20. It was a big personal best for him and a full second under the 1:53.20 set by Spot Valley High’s Tyrese Reid in 2019.

Jarrett is coached by Kevon Grant, the same man who coached Reid six years ago.

Lushane Wilson equalled the men’s high jump record when he cleared a season’s best 2.20m, the height set by then Wolmer’s Boys’ student Christoff Bryan in 2012.

There were two successful title defences in individual events. Green Island High’s Daynea Colstock won the women’s 400m hurdles event, running a personal best 1:01.59, while Edwin Allen’s Santae Wilson took the girls Class 1 100m hurdles in 13.91 (0.7m/s).

Emil Gordon of University of Technology, Jamaica, who won last year’s men’s 400m, was beaten into second place by Excelsior High’s Kishawn Hoffman, who ran 48.19. Gordon clocked 48.54.

St Andrew High School, who were returning to the meet for the first time in years, won the Class 4 girls 4x100m. They prevented a clean sweep of the high school girls sprint relays by Edwin Allen.

Jamaica College’s Class 1 team ran 40.59 seconds to win the 4x100m and spoil Kingston College’s attempt at a sweep of the boys’ sprint relays.

The high school boys 4x800m relay lived up to expectations with Kingston College and Jamaica College, who have dominated the event over the last few years, producing a gripping battle over the final three laps after Munro College and Edwin Allen High had set the early paces.

The two Corporate Area giants took over the lead on the final leg, and with just over 250 metres to go, separated themselves, with Kingston College successfully defending their title. They ran 7:48.78 minutes to Jamaica College’s 7:49.71. The 2023 winners Edwin Allen High placed third with 7:57.72.