Jamaican Olympian Jaheel Hyde clinched the primary gold medal for Jamaica on the 2023 Pan American Video games by triumphing within the males’s 400m hurdles last.
Hyde’s spectacular efficiency clocked in at 49.19 seconds, securing the highest spot on the rostrum forward of Brazil’s Matheus Lima (49.69 seconds) and Cuba’s Yoao Illas (49.74 seconds), who completed in second and third place, respectively. Yeral Nunez of the Dominican Republic claimed fourth place with a time of 49.89 seconds.
Hyde’s victory within the last adopted his spectacular efficiency within the semi-finals, the place he clocked 49.72 seconds to safe a spot within the championship race. With this gold medal, Jamaica’s medal tally on the 2023 Pan American Video games elevated to 5, complementing the 4 bronze medals beforehand earned.
Within the final Pan American Video games in 2019, Jamaica had achieved a exceptional report haul of 19 medals, underlining their prowess in regional competitions.
Anderson advances to males’s 800m last
In the meantime, Jamaican Navasky Anderson superior to the ultimate of the boys’s 800m after recording a time of 1:47.51 minutes within the semi-finals. He enters the ultimate because the fourth quickest qualifier.
In different occasions, Jamaican athletes Luchane Wilson and Cristoff Bryan competed within the males’s excessive leap last. Wilson cleared 2.21 meters to safe seventh place, whereas Bryan scaled 2.15 meters, ending in tenth place. Cuba’s Luis Zayas emerged victorious within the occasion with a leap of two.27 meters, adopted by Luis Castro of Puerto Rico and Bahamas’ veteran Donald Thomas.
The boys’s shot put last noticed Jamaican athletes Rajindra Campbell and O’dayne Richards going through powerful competitors. Campbell’s throw of 19.27 meters earned him eighth place, whereas Richards’ throw of 18.37 meters secured ninth place.
Girls’s 1500m last
Within the girls’s 1500m last, Cuba’s Every day Cooper secured silver in 4:11.86 minutes, with American Emily Macay claiming third place in 4:12.02 minutes. The race was received by Venezuela’s Joselyn Brea in 4:11.80 minutes.
The boys’s triple leap title went to Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez with a leap of 17.19 meters, with compatriot Cristian Napoles ending third with 16.6 meters.
Within the girls’s javelin throw, Rhema Otabor of The Bahamas secured second place with a distance of 60.54 meters, whereas American Madelyn Harris claimed third place with a throw of 60.06 meters.
On a earlier day, Jamaica completed sixth within the males’s 4x100m relays last with a time of 39.55 seconds.