#Champs2025: First all-African podium for boys’ 5000m Open
KINGSTON, Jamaica — For the first time in the nearly 120 years since the start of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association track and field Championships in 1910, there will be a medal podium with three African nationals.
St Jago High School’s Ryan Achau and Kingston College’s Chris Wanjiku, who are from the east African country of Kenya, and Jamaica College’s Evans Tetteh, who hails from Ghana, swept the medals in the boys 5000m Open on Saturday’s final day of the 115th staging of the event, now known as the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, at the National Stadium.
Achau, who was fourth in the boys’ Class One 1500m on Wednesday, won the gruelling race with 15:12.50, followed by Tetteh with 16:03.85 and Wanjiku was third with 16:21.82.
Another African Stephen Muturi of Kingston College was fifth 16:44.98.
The best placed Jamaican was Jordan Mills of St George’s College who was fourth with 16:40.37.
The meet record of 14:18.55 was set in 2010 by Kemoy Campbell, then of Bellefield High.
— Paul Reid
Jamaica College’s Evans Tetteh copped the silver medal in the boys’ 5000m Open at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
