KC remain on top

St. Jago's star athlete Melanie Walker clears a hurdle on her way to a record 56.55 seconds in the 400m hurdles open final. Report B3. - Rudolph Brown

By Elton Tucker, Assistant Sport Editor

KINGSTON College are still in front after three days of competition at the 2001 VMBS Boys and Girls Athletic Championships.

At press time last night KC, after five finals, led with 45 points. Calabar High were second on 34 with Munro College next on 25. The top three were followed by St. Jago High 17.50, Jamaica College and Bridgeport 15 each, Wolmer's nine and Ardenne seven.

KC scored heavily in the Class 3 high jump taking first and third spots. Andre Wellington cleared 1.86m to finish ahead of Calabar's Akeil Facey 1.83m and his teammate Darren Daley who also cleared 1.83m.

Favourite Gregory Little made no mistake in the 400 metres hurdles final as he proved too strong for Ardenne's Richard Phillips over the final hurdle. Little clocked 51.83 and Phillips 52.56. Jamaica College's Elleston Baker was third in 52.82.

Calabar kept pace with leaders KC when Jason Morgan won the Class 1 discus with a throw of 49.72m beating KC's Kimani Kirton 48.44m and Ricardo Page (St. Jago) 45.44m.

The 200 metres semi-finals produced some very good times. As expected Marvin Anderson of St. Jago High registered the best time in winning semi-final two. Anderson clocked 21.08 to clip his main rival Steve Mullings of Vere Technical. Mullings crossed the line in 21.12.

In Class 2 St. George's College's Tesfa Latty continues to impress and looks a cinch for the Class 2 sprint double. He cruised home by almost five metres to take semi-final three in 21.90. He was the only Class 2 athlete to go under 22 seconds. The next best finalist was the lanky Usain Bolt of William Knibb who clocked 22.08. JC's Patrick Lee who is bidding to win three events in Class 2 ran 22.16 in winning semi-final one.

Wolmer's are strong in the Class 3 sprints and Matthew Palmer and Kemar Brown showed why yesterday. Palmer clocked 23.00 to win semi-final one while Brown won semi-final three in 23.36. KC's Wellington, the favourite for the event, took things easy in taking semi-final two in 23.11.

The semi-finals and final of the 100 metres will be run this evening.

Charlemont's Asafa Powell surprised his rivals to register the fastest time in the Class 1 heats. Powell won heat 4 in 10.65 beating St. Jago's Davaon Spence 10.69 and JC's Jermaine Allen 10.73. Long jump winner Paul Thompson of Munro did 10.81, Charlton Douglas (St. George's) 10.85 and Nicholas Denniser (KC) 10.93.

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