#Champs2026: STETHS’ Richards takes gold in girls Class 4 long jump
KINGSTON, Jamaica — St Elizabeth Technical’s Anastacia Richards won the girls Class 4 long jump of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships on Thursday after holding off Immaculate Conception’s Sukhuri-Shay Smith in the final round.
Richards, who led with 5.32m (-1.7m/s), produced her best jump of 5.46m (-0.1m/s) in the final round, just shy of her personal best of 5.47m, which she won with at the COCAA Western Champs, five weeks ago.
Smith jumped 5.29m (-0.7m/s), also in the final round, to take the silver, while St Andrew High’s Gabriella Fletcher took the bronze medal with 5.10m (-0.3m/s), the same mark as fourth-placed Leantrae Williams of Edwin Allen High.
— Paul A Reid
St Elizabeth Technical’s Anastacia Richards won the girls Class 4 long jump of the 2026 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships on Thursday (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
