JA tries for another medal at World Youth Champs

Jamaica will be represented in one final on today’s third day of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Bressanone.



Javere Bell will carry the country’s medal hope. He will contest the men’s 400-metre final, which is scheduled to begin at 9:25 this morning Jamaica time.



Bell qualified with the sixth fastest time after winning Heat One yesterday’s semi-final in 48.03 seconds.



In the women’s 400-metre final, Jamaica’s representative Sandrae Farquharson did not get into the medal round after failing to finish her semi-final yesterday.



Meanwhile, Jamaican athletes had a disappointed second day.



Sprinters Deandre Whitehorne and Samantha Elliott, who got to the final of the their events fail to medal.



Whitehorne finished last in the women’s 100 metre final in 11.82. Jodie Williams of Great Britain won the gold medal in a World Youth leading time of 11.39.



And Elliott could only manage seventh in the women’s 100-metre hurdles final in a time of 13.54. Isabelle Pedersen of Norway won the gold medal in 13.23.



Jamaica’s other representative in the women’s 100-metre hurdles, Keenan Davis did not make the medal round after a last place finish in semi-final one earlier in the day.



In the men’s 100 metres, Jamaican Kemar Bailey-Cole did not advance to the medal round, after placing sixth in the second semi-final earlier in the day. He clocked 10.66 seconds.