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Up to the staging of the 10th World Junior Championships, Grossetto, Italy in 2004, the record for most medals at these Championships was held by Germany’s Katrin Krabbe, 5 medals. Jamaica’s Anneisha McLaughlin, a student of Holmwood Technical High, has garnered six (6) medals and has thus earned that covered record. At the age of 14 years 9 months, Anneisha McLaughlin competing at the 8th World Junior Athletic Championships in Santiago, Chile, ran 54.14 seconds on the third leg of the 4 x 400 metres relay to assist in giving Jamaica a silver medal. At the 9th World Junior Championships before her home Crowd at the National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica, Anneisha added two (2) more medals - a silver medal in the 200m with a run of 22.94 seconds, and running the third leg in the 4 x 100m relays as Jamaica sped to gold in a World Junior Championships record of 43.40 seconds In 2004 in Italy at the 10th World Junior Championships, the Holmwood Technical High student again won the silver in the 200 metres in 23.21 seconds and won her 5th and 6th medals in the relays, silver in the 4 x 100m and bronze in the 4 x 400m relays. OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
In 2003 at the World Youth Championships in Canada, she won the 200 metres gold 23.26 seconds. In 2004 at the National High School Championships at the National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica, she won 3 gold medals and one silver. In the 400 metres, she won gold with 52.80 seconds, silver in the 200 metres in 23.48 seconds, gold in the 4 x 100 metres and the 4 x 400 metres relays. Competing in her last year in High School, she won 4 gold medals at the 2005 edition of the National High School Championships - Gold in the 100 metres 11.62 seconds gold in the 200 metres, 23.40, gold in the 4 x 100 metres, in a record 44.25 seconds and gold in the 4 x 400 metres in 3 minutes 36.20 seconds. A very special talent, Anneisha McLaughlin of Holmwood Technical High is being watched by the track and field world as she joins the band of seniors seeking athletics glory. Writer - Robert Fray |
Competing at the
World Youth Championships in Poland in 2001, Anneisha at the age of 15
gained a bronze in the 400 metres clocking 53.35 seconds.
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