Johan Blake led St. Jago to a record-breaking victory in the Class One 4x100m at the Gibson Relays yesterday. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer

HIGH PERFORMANCE Training Centre (HPTC) won the JN-sponsored men's Institutions 4x100m relay final, capitalising on the mistake made by hot favourites Maximising Velocity Power (MVP) at yesterday's Gibson Relays at the National Stadium.

HPTC, anchored by Usain Bolt, won the event in a record 38.70 seconds -beating the 38.97 MVP did in the preliminary round.

MVP led up to the final change but did not finish as Darrell Brown and Ainsley Waugh bungled the handover.

World 100m record holder Asafa Powell, who ran the opening leg, said his team spoiled a very good record run.

"(I am) very, very disappointed, because as you can see we were way ahead and it seems as if we were going for a record, but unfortunately the baton fell," said Powell.

Powell said his team was extremely confident of victory.

"There wasn't really any challenge because we were way ahead and we had Ainsley on the anchor leg, so we would not have had anything to worry about if he had gotten the baton," Powell said.

Bolt was also disappointed with what happened as he wanted the challenge.

"I am really sorry that the baton dropped because I was hoping for a goodtest ... I knew I could do well in a 4x100m," he said.

St. Jago's boys and Holmwood's girls won the Class One sprint relays. St. Jago, with Yohan Blake on anchor, won in 40.07, beating the previous mark of 40.38 set by KC in 2006 while Holmwood, featuring Schillonie Calvert and Anastasia Le-Roy, won easily over Edwin Allen.

Record times

The other boys' sprint relays were all completed in record times. Calabar won the Class Two 4x100m in 41.04, KC took Classes Three and Four in 43.84 and 46.03 respectively.

In the 4x100m Prep School final, Quest won in a record 53.30, while Vaz took the 4x60m relay for Prep School boys in a record 33.78

Vere Technical (56.46) beat St. Jago (57.94) in the girls 4x100m shuttle relay.

In other finals, Herbert McGregor of University of Technology (UTech) and Franklyn Anderson of University of West Indies (UWI) were individual record breakers.

McGregor leapt 7.70m in the men's long jump to beat the old mark of 7.58m, jointly held by Ryan Chambers and Ricardo Coleman since 2000, while Anderson cleared 4.20m to break the two-year record of 3.80m in the pole vault.

In the mile events, Royalty's pair of Evan Allen and Tanice Barnett took the men's and women's sections respectively.

In the women's high jump, Anna-Lisa Myers of Wolmer's won with a leap of 1.70m.