Sport
Jamaican athletes dominates at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York
Jamaica’s other finalists Jacques Harvey, Nickel Ashmeade and Kemar Bailey Cole finished fifth, six and seventh.
Also, Jamaica’s National Record holder Allison Randall threw a season’s best 57.85 metres in the discus in rainy and windy conditions.
Randall who started slowly had two throws over 57.00m finishing strongly with 57.66m.
Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic won in a World Leading and meet record 68.48m. Two hundred metres specialist Mario Forsythe won the Men’s 400m B race in 46.65 seconds beating three other Jamaicans to the line – Dewayne Barrett — 46.85 seconds, Allodin Fothergill — 47.01 seconds and Nicholas Maitland — 47.05 seconds.
Former world champion Barbadian Ryan Braithwaite also shared the spotlight for the Caribbean by winning the 110 metre hurdles in a season’s best 13.19. Cuba’s Orlando Ortega (13.24) finished second. -(CMC)
