#Champs2025: CC’s Marla Kay Lampart has date with destiny
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Clarendon College’s Marla Kay Lampart has a date with destiny on Saturday when she will have the meet record of 15.33m in the girls’ Class One shot put in her sight at the 115th ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.
In mid-January, Lampart who was second in Class Two last year, broke the Jamaican Under-20 record with a massive 15.98m at the Central Hurdles, Relays and Field Events meet at GC Foster and said afterwards she would be going after former Camperdown star’s Britannia Johnson’s 2023 Champs record.
Her throw in January was a World Under-20 leading mark then and was better than the previous Jamaican national junior record 15.72m set in 2015 by Lloydrica Cameron at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) East Preliminary Round meet at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, United States.
On Wednesday, Lampart qualified in sixth position for the final with 12.20m and will be part of a quality field chasing the medals.
Excelsior High’s Kimeka Smith, last year’s Class Two gold medal winner, leads the qualifying with 14.67m and was followed by two owes who had also qualified for the Class One discus throw finals — Able Mills of St Catherine High with 13.44m and last year’s bronze medallist Natassia Burrell of Hydel High who threw 13.33m.
Gianna Clayton of Excelsior also advanced with 12.62m as well as Dionjah Shaw of Edwin Allen with 12.34m.
— Paul Reid
