Jamaica bags three medals at Youth Olympics

Jamaican athletes had a good day on Monday at the 2026 Youth Olympics at Stade Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, Senegal, winning three medals, a gold and two silver in track and field.

Marquies Page took the boys’ 110m hurdles gold, setting a Youth Olympic Games record and personal best 12.95 seconds, while Kamari Kennedy and Xhaevion Kelly won silver medals in the boys’ discus throw and shot put events respectively.

Meanwhile, Jaeden Campbell has advanced to Tuesday’s final of the boys’ 400m hurdles after winning his semi-final heat in 51.73 seconds, the fastest time of the round; Sheneca Harris qualified for her 400m hurdles final after she was fifth in her semi-final with 1:00.78.

Kennedy, a finalist at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon in August, threw a personal best 66.31m with the 1.5kg discus, to finish behind Egypt’s Yahya Sawaby who won the gold medal with 68.23m.

His previous best with that weight was 61.53m that he set while winning the gold medal at the NACAC Under-18 Championships in Mexico in July.

Vittorio Gorziglia of Chile was third with 56.00m.

Kelly threw a personal best 19.32m with the 5kg shot put, beating his previous best 18.60m set at the NACAC Under-18 Championships in Mexico in July.

Brazil’s Henrico Souza Pyetro won the gold medal with 19.79m with South Africa’s Darius Botha taking the bronze with 19.23m.

— Paul A Reid