Jaeden Campbell sets championship record at Youth Olympics

Jaeden Campbell ran a championship record and personal best 50.60 seconds to win Jamaica’s second gold medal, taking the boys 400m hurdles title at the Youth Olympics at Stade Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday.

Campbell joined 110m hurdles winner Marquies Page as gold medallist and record breaker after he won his event on Monday.

Campbell broke the championship record 50.61 held jointly by Xu Zhihang of China and Mohamed Fares Jlassi of Tunisia set in 2014.

His performance is the third best ever at the Under-18 age group. Only Taiju Goto of Japan— 47.93 seconds and Miller Warme of the USA who ran 49.28 seconds, have gone faster.

He also lowered his Jamaican Under-18 best of 51.73 seconds that he set while winning his semi-final heat on Monday.

Japan’s Noriyuki Takano won the silver medal with a personal best 50.88 seconds and Austria’s Zsombor Klucsik was third in 51.59 seconds.

Also on Tuesday, Sheneca Harris was seventh in the women’s 400m hurdles in 1:00.97 after she ran 1:00.78 in the semis on Monday.

— Paul A Reid