KINGSTON, Jamaica – Navasky Anderson lowered the Jamaican men’s indoor 800 m record on Thursday after he ran 1:46.10 seconds to finish fourth in the men’s B race at the Meeting Lievin Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais.

Anderson carved one-hundredth of a second off the 1:46.11 seconds set in February last year by Tyrice Taylor at a meet in Arkansas, weeks after he had set another national record in the men’s 1000m on January 31.

Megan Simmonds lowered her personal best twice in the meet, running 7.88 seconds in the final, the eighth best time ever by a Jamaican woman in the event.

In the first round she ran 7.93 seconds to beat her previous best of 7.98 seconds.

National champion Nickisha Pryce was second in the women’s 400m B race in 52.43 seconds, while World Indoor Championships finalist Jordan Scott was second in the men’s triple jump with 17.11 m, the second best in the world behind Algeria’s Yasser Mohammed Triki, who jumped 17.35 m.

– Paul A Reid