#Champs2025: Hydel’s Daley wins girls’ Class 1 hurdles
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hydel High’s Jody-Ann Daley won the girls’ Class One 100m hurdles gold medal after she ran 13.40 seconds (-1.3m/s) on Saturday’s final day of the 115th ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.
Daley, who was ranked number one coming into the championships, improved her season’s best time to hold off Holmwood Technical’s Kiara Meikle who repeated her silver medal from last year while Edwin Allen’s Santae Wilson was third in 13.74 seconds.
Wolmer’s Girls took the gold and silver medals in the Class Two 100m final as Tiana Marshall won with 13.71 seconds (-2.5m/s) ahead of Akeelah Bell with 13.95 seconds while Rajana Price of Convent of Mercy Alpha Academy was third with 14.04 seconds.
Medal favourite Malaya Duncan of St Jago High was disqualified for a false start.
Edwin Allen High’s Tashana Godfrey came from behind over the last two hurdles to win the Class Three 80m hurdles with 11.26 seconds (-3.7m/s) coming from a slow start to beat Martina Parkes of St Jago High who ran 11.31 seconds and Jadea Harris of Wolmer’s Girls who took third in 11.55 seconds.
St Jago High’s Shanice Williams won the Class Four 70m hurdles after she ran 10.60 seconds (-1.8m/), Wolmer’s Girls Odainna Creary was second with 10.75 seconds and Ramona Foster of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) was third with 10.97 seconds.
— Paul A Reid