Jamaica College’s Michael-Andre Edwards won the high school boys’ triple jump on Thursday’s opening day of the 129th Penn Relays Carnival with a personal best 15.95m (1.9m/s), second best ever at the event.

Edwards, who won the Class 1 event at Jamaica’s boys and girls’ athletics championships in March and was second to his teammate Chavez Penn at last weekend’s Carifta Games in Trinidad, trails only former Jamaica College jumper O’Brien Wasome who set the championship record 16.01m in 2016.

He surpassed his previous best 15.66m set at Carifta, and is joint sixth best in the world in the under-20 age group. He’s the fourth straight Jamaican to win the event and 10th in the last 11 times the event has been staged.

Edwards dominated the event with all five of his legal jumps over 15.09m as Joachim Johnson of Episcopal Academy of Pennsylvania was second and last year’s runner-up, Nicardo Grey-Clarke of Wolmer’s, third with 14.82m.

Meanwhile, Edwin Allen High’s Dominican national Addison James, the Carifta Under-20 champion, won the javelin throw event with 65.98m, tied ninth best all time. James is the second student from a Jamaican high school to win the event, after Jamaica College’s Guyanese national Gabriel Lim won in 2023.

Munro College’s Ojay Ellis was second with 59.14m, ‘Champs’ winner Tarique Daley of Calabar High was fourth with 58.67m and Jamaica College’s Jayvoni Neckles was eighth with 55.81m.