RAYMOND Richards retained his bronze medal for Jamaica in the men’s high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, clearing 2.26m to share third place with Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo on Saturday.

Jamaica just missed adding more medals when the mixed 4x400m relay team was disqualified after finishing third, while Brianna Lyston in the women’s 60m and Demario Prince in the men’s 60m hurdles both finished fourth in their respective finals.

Jamaica’s three medals, including two silver medals won on Friday, left them in 12th place on the medal table but they are poised to add more today, the final day of competition.

Carey McLeod — who won a bronze medal in the men’s long jump two years ago in Glasgow, Scotland — and Tajay Gayle will contest that event while Nia Robinson will make her debut at a major global championships when she competes in the women’s long jump.

Megan Simmonds and Oneka Wilson will compete in the women’s 60m hurdles, with all three rounds set for both sessions, while the men’s 4x400m relay team will also hunt medals.

Richards, who was a surprise medallist last year in Nanjing, China, took a second medal after a long contest. He cleared 2.17m, 2.22m and 2.26m on his first attempts, the same as Woo —the winner in China — before both failed at 2.30m.

The other Jamaican, Romaine Beckford, finished ninth after clearing 2.22m but failing at 2.26m.

Ukraine’s Oleh Doroshchuk won gold, with Mexico’s Erick Portillo taking silver, both clearing 2.30m.

Jamaica were denied a second bronze medal when the mixed 4x400m relay team was disqualified for a lane violation, after the quartet of Delano Kennedy, Shana Kaye Anderson, Kimar Farquharson and Leah Anderson fought to finish in 3:17.13 minutes.

Track officials ruled that the anchor-leg runner was over the start line when she took the baton, and an appeal by Jamaican officials failed to overturn the decision.

Host country Poland was promoted to the bronze medal position behind Belgium who won gold in 3:15.60, ahead of Spain in 3:16.96.

Despite a personal best 7.43 seconds, Prince was fourth in the men’s 60m hurdles final.

The Baylor University athlete, who lowered his previous best of 7.46 seconds set a month ago, was edged out of a medal by American Trey Cunningham who was also timed in 7.43 seconds but finished ahead by 0.009 seconds, 7.421 to 7.430.

Poland’s Jakub Szymanski won gold in 7.40 seconds, with Enrique Llopis setting a Spanish national record 7.42 seconds for silver.

Earlier in the semi-finals, Prince was second in his race in 7.53 seconds to secure an automatic spot in the final, finishing behind Cunningham who ran a personal best 7.35 seconds.

Jerome Campbell, who advanced from the first round in the morning session, finished eighth in his semi-final after hitting the first hurdle and failing to recover. He was later disqualified.

Jamaica’s pair of Lyston and Jonielle Smith finished out of medal contention in the women’s 60m final that closed the second day.

Lyston, who advanced on time, was fourth, equalling her season’s best 7.05 seconds, while Smith, who won both her earlier races, was fifth in 7.06 seconds.

Italy’s Zaynab Dosso won in 7.00 seconds, matching her semi-final time, followed by American Jacious Sears in 7.03 seconds and St Lucia’s Julien Alfred, also in 7.03 seconds.

In the semi-finals earlier in the second session, Smith ran a personal best 7.03 seconds and Lyston ran a season’s best 7.05 seconds for third in her race.

Shantae Foreman finished 17th in the women’s triple jump with a best of 12.35m.

In yesterday’s morning session Jamaica’s 800m representatives Natoya Goule-Toppin and Navasky Anderson both failed to get past their semi-finals.

Goule-Toppin was fourth in her semi-final in 2:00.69, faster than the 2:01.32 she ran in the first round on Friday.

Anderson was third in his semi-final in his first World Indoors, clocking 1:46.65 — slower than the 1:46.34 he ran in the first round.

Bronze medallists South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyeok (left) and Jamaica’s Raymond Richards celebrate on the podium for the men’s high jump medal ceremony during the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze in Torun, Poland, on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Jamaica’s Demario Prince (left), Italy’s Lorenzo Simonelli (centre), and Czechia’s Jonas Kolomanzik in action during the men’s 60m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Torun, Poland, on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)