Five more medals at Pan-Am Jnrs

[Sickko]

Gold for Ashmeade, bronze for Ramone and Jura and silver for girls relay team and bronze for boys team that had Deuce Carter running the lead off leg

[Mosiah]

I don't see Jura Levy as our next great female sprinter.

[Yuttie]

she along will Gayon are the next big thing....

[Sickko]

..and I think every one would agree with you, however, given what we know about track and field and predictions...your's might be a bit premature.

A lot of people thought Aniesha McLaughlin would be the next great sprinter

[Sickko]

Sport
Gold for Ashmeade
Ja nab five medals on penultimate day
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Jamaica doubled their medal haul at the 15th Pan-American Junior Track & Field Championships at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain yesterday after winning another five medals on the second day of the three-day meet, including gold by Nickel Ashmeade in the 200-metre final.
Ashmeade ran a personal best 20.40 seconds as the Jamaicans won their second gold of the meet as well as a silver medal and three bronze medals.
ASHMEADE... staked claim for place on World Champs team after lifetime best
Jura Levy and Ramone McKenzie both won bronze medals in the 200m, while the other two medals came in the 4x100m relays - a big improvement after both teams failed to complete the event two years ago when the meet was held in Brazil.
The 10 medals won so far with today's third and final day to go represents the seventh best medal haul by a Jamaican team at the meet, and they could match the second best of 15 medals won in 2003 in Barbados.
Yesterday, 19-year-old Ashmeade staked a claim for a place on the team to the IAAF World Championships by running a lifetime best 20.40 seconds (wind 1.4 m/s) to win the half-lap event as his teammate McKenzie was third in 20.79 seconds, edged by the American Keyth Talley, 29.78.
Ashmeade, who was second in the event at last year's IAAF World Junior Championships in Poland and won the Central American and Caribbean Senior gold last month, threw down the gauntlet earlier in the heats after qualifying with 20.74 seconds, the fastest time of the day, beating Canada's Rohan Stewart (21.41 seconds) who is of Jamaican parentage.
MCKENZIE... picked up bronze in 200m
McKenzie, who won at Boys Champs and was fourth at Senior Trials in a personal best 20.56, also won his heat easily, running 21.21.
Ashmeade became the third Jamaican male to win the 200 at the Pan-American Juniors, joining Dwight Thomas in Tampa, Florida in 1999 (20.66 seconds) and Usain Bolt who set the meet record 20.13 when the meet was held in Barbados in 2003.
Levy won her second bronze in as many days after running 23.93 in the 200m final which was won by the American Chalonda Goodman (23.08), who was completing the sprint double after winning the 100m on Friday.
Levy qualified for the final after cruising to a second-place finish in her heat in 24.66 - the fifth fastest time in the heats - as Audra Segree failed to advance past the first round after running 24.94 for fourth in her heat, nipped on the line by Mexican Alejandra Cherizola.
Levy then picked up her third medal of the meet, this time a silver as she anchored the Jamaican girls to a smart 44.96 seconds behind the USA squad in the 4x100m relay.
Segree led off the team, handing over to Antonique Campbell, who handed off to 100m finalist Gayon Evans on the third leg.
The boys' team of hurdler Deuce Carter, McKenzie, Ashmeade and 100m finalist Dexter Lee was third in their final in 40.06 seconds, beaten by the United States who ran a Championship Record 39.06 and Brazil, 39.64.
Carifta Games Under-20 champion Nikita Tracey and IAAF World Youth Championships silver medallist Daniel Dowie both advance to today's final of the women's 400m hurdles.
Tracey, who also won at Girls Champs and at the Penn Relays, won her qualifying heat in 58.66 seconds, the fastest of the day.
Dowie was second in her heat in 59.81 seconds behind the United States' Delilah Muhammad's 59.42 and the three were the only runners to go under one minute in the heats.
There was disappointment in the men's race, however, after Sheldon Williams was disqualified in his 400m hurdles qualifying heat.
Junior Trials winner Donohue Williams failed to advance past the first round of the 800m after placing third in his heat in 1:57.20 for 13th overall.
Both Jamaican entrants in the women's discus, Candicea Bernard and Micara Vassell, finished out of the medals, a day after they competed in the shot put.
Bernard was seventh in 43.70m, and despite being consistently over the 43m mark, fell well below her personal best.
Vassell was eighth with a best throw of 42.12m, registering just two legal throws.
The meet ends today and Jamaicans will continue their medal hunt in the 4x400m relays, which will have the heats in the morning session, while Yushani Durrant will contest the women's long jump.