The all boy school Calabar High roared loudly on the final day to successfully defend the Mortimor Geddes trophy symbol of schoolboys’ track and field supremacy, when they strolled to an easy victory on Saturday’s final day of the 103rd ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.
While many from Red Hills road celebrated their win, Turks & Caicos celebrated with Munro College who came 6th at the end of champs.
Calabar High amassed 299, followed by Jamaica College on 258.5, Kingston College on 247.5, Wolmer’s Boys, 121, St Jago, 107 and Munro College with 98 to round out the hot 6.
Twenty-seven new records were established, while 30 were broken, 19 by boys and 11 by girls.
Munro College’s Delano Williams joined the ranks of the Champs greats when he completed back-to-back Class One sprint doubles, winning his third straight 200m in a new personal best and world leading 20.27 seconds, only second to Usain Bolt’s 20.25 seconds set in 2003 for William Knibb Memorial.
Williams, who won the 100m the previous night in 10.28 seconds, both new Turks and Caicos national senior records, joined former KC sprinter Lennox ‘Billy’ Miller as three-time winners of the 200m at Class One, and was the first since Miller did it 48 years ago in 1965.
It was also the first time any Class One boy was repeating as Class One sprint double champion since Camperdown’s Garfield Campbell in 1986.
RTC Sports spoke with Delano after the race who said, “I was thrilled to have accomplished what only a few have done at my level and was happy with the times set and the achievements made for my school.”
Turks & Caicos congratulates Delano Williams and the other local track and field ambassadors in Jamaica who took part in the weeks events.
