Naggo Head Primary of St Catherine won the INSPORTS/Devon Biscuits Primary Schools Athletics National Championship with 196 points and walked away with a whopping $600,000.
Dethroned champion Lyssons Primary of St Thomas which were hunting their third consecutive all-island crown, were second with 170.5 points ahead of Greater Portmore on 96 points.
Spanish Town Primary were fourth on 82 while St John’s Primary completed the top five with 76.5 points.
Having won the Central Championship where they got $350,000, Naggo Head’s total earnings are $950,000 for the season. Dethroned champion Lyssons Primary will get $350,000 for second to add to their $350,000 for winning the Eastern Championship.
Meanwhile, the government through the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, Olivia Grange, made a special and touching gesture to Constable Christal Service, whose daughter Shantel Skyers was brutally kidnapped and murdered in 2019.
Young Skyers was supposed to have participated in the INSPORTS Championship for Red Hill Road Primary, and the organisers arranged a commemorative relay race in her honour and the gold baton passed to her mother who was left in tears.
But back on the track, trailing by over 20 points, Khalia Raymond started the fightback for Lyssons Primary winning the Girls Class one 200m in 26.15 seconds. Kevanese Higgins of Alpha Primary finished second with 26.24 just ahead of Asha-Lee Montique of Red Hills in 26.64.
Kashmar Gunther of Southborough continued to have the scouts’ tongues wagging after he completed the sprint double, winning the Boys’ Class One 200m in 24.58 running from lane eight.
Sarah McDonald of Naggo Head won the Girls Class Two 200m in 26.69 while Shaquawn Reid of Glen Staurt Primary captured his second gold winning the Class Two 200m in 26.02.
Jadah-Kay Pitt of Rock Hall won the Girls Class Three 150 in 20.92 ahead of Allia Royal of Davis primary in 21.05. Naggo’ Head’s Ricardo Granville won the boys’ equivalent in 20.46.
The outstanding Perez Pearson of St John’s and Roshane Lindsay of John Mills both broke the Boys’ High Jump record clearing 1.58m.
Pearson, later returned and broke the 2023 long jump World Championship silver medallist Wayne Pinnock’s 2013 record of 5.27m and took it to 5.33m.
Another name to look out for is Odainna Creary who smashed the Girls’ 70m hurdles clocking 11.15 well below the previous mark of 11.80 held by Rememha Dixon.
Naggo Head’s Donte Barrett captured the Boys’ 70m hurdles in 11.04 ahead of Adrian Phillips of Morant Bay with 11.15.
Kensington Primary captured the Girls’ Medley Relay Open in a record 2:01.05 well clear of Swallowfield with 2:04.24. St John’s won the boys’ equivalent in a record 1:54.51.
Khalia Raymond of Lyssons Primary was the overall Champion Girl while three boys shared the Champion Boy crown in Kashmar Gunter of Southborough; Ricardo Granville of Naggo Head and Shaquawan Reid of Glen Stuart Primary. They will all pocket $50,000 each.
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