KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaican sprinters Tia Clayton and Rohan Watson carried out impressively on their strategy to successful the 60-meter occasions on the World Indoor Qualifier meet at G.C. Foster Faculty on Saturday.
The eagerly anticipated conflict between Clayton and pre-race favourite Jodean Williams of SprinTec by no means materialized. The latter pulled out of the ultimate after producing a private greatest of seven.07 seconds within the preliminary spherical.
Clayton took full benefit of her absence to win in a private greatest of seven.08 seconds, with MVP teammate Natasha Morrison second in 7.09, Barbados’ Kishawna Niles of UTech third in 7.12, and Shericka Jackson fourth in 7.14 seconds.
The 20-year-old Clayton, injured for many of final season, was elated along with her victory.
“This win is a confidence booster for me, and it feels scrumptious as a result of I simply executed as my coach instructed me to.
“For me, it’s all about staying wholesome and injury-free for the remainder of the season,” mentioned Clayton.
In the meantime, Watson, the previous nationwide senior males’s 100-metre champion, continued his sturdy kind this season by capturing the lads’s race in a season’s greatest 6.50 seconds.
MVP claimed the highest three locations within the race, with Nishion Ebanks second in 6.57 and Michael Campbell claiming third in 6.60 seconds.
In different outcomes, Barbados’ Sada Williams, representing MVP, was a straightforward winner within the girls’s 200 meters, clocking a season’s greatest 23.44 seconds, with Alliah Baker of Elite Efficiency second in 23.61, with Roneisha McGregor of UWI Mona taking third in 23.64.
Adrian Kerr gained the lads’s 200 meters in a private better of 20.47 seconds.
Ackeem Blake of Dynamic Velocity was second in 20.49, whereas his teammate Sandrey Davison secured third in 20.75 seconds.
