JC’s Michael-Andre Edwards breaks 10-year-old Penn Relays triple jump record

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Jamaica Observer

PHILADELPHIA, United States—Jamaica College’s Michael-Andre Edwards broke the 10-year-old high school boys' triple jump record on Friday’s second day of the 130th Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field with a personal best 16.29m (0.8m/s).O’Brien Wasom’s record 16.01m set in 2016 was on borrowed time, and Edwards surpassed it in the third round when he jumped 16.26m (-0.1m/s) and then improved it in the next round.Edwards, who admitted he had the record on his mind coming into the championships, especially with Wasome also attending Jamaica College, had two more jumps over 16.12m in a superb series.He extended the Jamaican dominance in the event to five straight as he beat the American high school indoor record holder, Mile Nesmith of Memphis Central in Tennessee, who also broke the old record with 16.18m (0.4m/s).Kingston College’s Rekelme Hunter was third with 15.41m (1.1m/s), Wolmers' Boys’ Kabiki Thomas was fifth with 14.77m (0.2m/s), Calabar’s Antonio Anderson jumped 14.75m (1.4m/s), and Wolmers’ Roshane Francis got out to 14.74m (1.0m/s).Santino Distin of St Elizabeth Technical jumped a season’s best 2.06m for third in the high jump, behind Ryan Buskey of Colonie Central, New York, who cleared 2.14m and Darius Reid of Upper Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, 2.09m.Jamaica’s College’s Jaivar Cato was fourth in the high school boys' long jump with 7.11m (-0.1m/s),while Kingston College’s Omarion Miller jumped 7.06m (0.4m/s) and Calabar High’s Talshawn Edwards jumped 7.04m (1.6m/s).-Paul A Reid