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THREE JAMAICANS WIN AT NCAAs. OLYMPIAN Kimberli Barrett, Sheri-Ann Brooks and Aneita Denton were the Jamaican winners at the National Athletics Championships (NCAA) held at the Sacramento State University in California. Barrett won the women's shot put; Brooks triumphed in the 200m, while Denton won the 800m. Brooks, a former Manchester student who had the third fastest time going into the final, won in 22.85 seconds for Florida International University. Denton ran a well-timed race to win the 800m in a season best 2:02.84 seconds for Arkansas.
Olympian Barrett won the women's shot put
when she threw 18.20m to beat Texas' Michelle Carter (17.06m) and
Jessica Cosby of UCLA In the women's 400m hurdles, Olympian Shevon Stoddart secured silver with a 54.47 run, while Melaine Walker (55.32), formerly of St. Jago, was fourth. Ricardo Chambers, formerly of Christiana High was fourth in the men's 400, beaten by world leader Darold Williamson of Baylor (44.51) Shereefa Lloyd, formerly of Vere was also a fourth place finisher in the women's one lap event for Texas. She was timed in 51.39. Arkansas and former Albert Town athlete Omar Brown (22.38) was eighth in the men's 200m, won by a world leading run from his teammate Wallace Spearmon (19.91) with Xavier Carter of LSU second in (20.08). In the women's 100m hurdles, Kasia Williams of Arkansas was eighth in 13.43 seconds. Former Alpha student, Peaches Roach, now at Iowa was ninth in the women's high jump with a leap of 1.80m. |
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