Page strikes gold!
Jamaican smashes Youth Olympic record in 110m hurdles
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Marquies Page won Jamaica’s first gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games that are being held at Stade Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, Senegal on Monday, running a personal best and Youth Olympic record 12.95 seconds (-0.4m/s) to win the 110m hurdles final.
Page was the second Jamaican to win the event and broke the previous record 12.96 seconds that was set by compatriot Jaheel Hyde in Nanjing, China in 2014.
Page’s previous best in the event was 13.06 seconds which he ran while winning the Class 2 boys’ 110m hurdles at the ISSA Boys’ and Girls’ Champs in March.
The 16- year-old page who was a semi-finalist at the World Under- 20 Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon in August, beat China’s Shijie Chen who took the silver medal in a personal best 13.40 seconds, while Enrique Bosch of South Africa won the bronze medal with 13.45 seconds.
In the preliminaries, Page had won his heat in 13.20 seconds (-0.1m/s), again ahead of China’s Chen.
— Paul A Reid
