Anthony Foster, Freelance WriterLED BY World Junior Champion-ships 100m bronze medallist, Remaldo Rose, Camperdown were in impressive form on yesterday's final day of the 112th Penn Relays at Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The team from east Kingston won two Championship of Americas relays, the 4x100 in a record 40.13 and the mile relay in 3:11.46.
The quartet of (in running order) Kimour Bruce, Remaldo Rose, Rasheed Dwyer and Jermaine Dawkins erased the four-year-old record of 40.15 set by El Dorado of Trinidad and Tobago - a team which included Marc Burns and World Champion-ships silver medallist Darrell Brown.
In beating their school record of 40.37 set at Champs, Camperdown led home five other Jamaican teams Kingston College (40.51), St. Jago (40.59), Calabar (41.04), Mannings (41.99) and St. George's (42.05).
CHAMPS WIN NO FLUKE
In the mile relay, Rose ran an impressive 46.5 second leg and, along with Sander Pennicott (49.3), Dwyer (48.7) and Rayon Lawrence (47.0), they showed their Champs win wasn't a fluke.
St. Jago, with Yohan Blake who had the fastest leg overall (46.2), were second in 3:12.40 with KC (3:12.78) finishing third. Holmwood (3:16.02) and Mannings 3:19.10) were seventh and eighth.
Munro retained their small school's 4x100m title, winning in 42.40 ahead of Herbert Morrison (42.74) while Jamaica College (41.95) took the large schools' event.
Holmwood boys Bernard Powell, Kerone Robinson, Melvin Weller and Stafford McFarlan also took to the medal podium after they crossed the finish line in 7:43.35 to retain their Champions of Americas 4x800m crown ahead Simon Gratz (7:45.56).
In the field events, KC's Alain Bailey (7.39m) won the long jump ahead of Wolmer's Julian Reid (7.39m) and Calabar's Nicholas Gordon (7.02m) while Wolmer's Robert Peddler (14.73m) took the triple jump.
On Thursday's opening day, Vere's Kimberly Williams retained her triple jump crown with a leap of 12.47m ahead of Morant Bay's Kimona Smith (11.9) while Holmwood Taneisha Blair (46.08m) won the Championship of Americas javelin.
In the U.S.A. against the World Olympic Development women's and men's 4x100m races, the Jamaica teams finished third and fourth respectively.
The women's team of Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Sheri-Ann Brooks, Peta-Gaye Dowdie and Aleen Bailey stopped the clock at 43.87 to finish behind USA Blue (42.81) and USA Red (43.58).
In the men's section, Jamaica, with Michael Frater, Ainsley Waugh, Chris Williams and Dwight Thomas (38.95), finished second in section one, but got fourth overall behind USA Blue (38.33), who won section two, and USA White (38.72), who won section one and USA Red (38.78).
