Goulbourne BRISBANE, CANA:
KITTITIAN sprinter Kim Collins, and Jamaican long jumper Elva Goulbourne were among five Caribbean winners at a pre-Olympic warm-up athletic meet yesterday.
Collins won the men's 100 metres and Gouldbourne landed the women's long jump, and Gouldbourne's Jamaican teammates Ian Weakley, Karen Beautle, and Olivia McKoy also won their events at Nudgee College.
Barbadians and Bahamians were also at the meet.
Collins, a double sprint medallist at the US Collegiate Indoor championship earlier this year, sped to a 10.15 second victory, beating Australian Matt Shirvington (10.25) and Jamaican Lindel Frater (10.31). Donovon Powell (10.33) and Dwight Thomas (10.37) were fourth and fifth for Jamaica.
Goulbourne, a Pan Am Games bronze medallist last year in Canada, topped her field with a jump of 6.74 metres, ahead of teammate Lacena Golding 6.52 metres.
Weakley (49.40) won the men's 400-metre hurdles over American Blair Young (49.68) with Barbadian Victor Houston fourth in 51.13 seconds.
Beautle, the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) champion, won the women's high jump at 1.80 metres, and McKoy (57.07) took the women's javelin.
The 1999 World Youth Games champion Veronica Campbell, who is on Jamaica's sprint relay team for Sydney, chased Australian Melinda Gainsford-Taylor to be second in the women's 100 metres. Gainsford-Taylor won in 11.16 seconds, with Campbell posting 11.18, while Kittitian Valma Bass placed fifth in 11.56.
Australian Lee Naylor won the women's 400 metres in 52.84 seconds, over Jamaicans Michelle Burgher (52.97) and Celena Clarke (53.36). Barbadian Tanya Oxley, the 2000 US Collegiate division two 200 and 400 metre champion, was fourth in 53.95 seconds, followed by Jamaican Andrea Thomas (54.11), and Barbadians Shirlene Williams (54.22) and Tonya Jordan (58.34).
Jamaican Mardrea Hyman (4:14.21) was runner-up to American Marla Runyon (4:11.83) in the women's 1500 metres, and her teammate Charmaine Howell ran two minutes 04.45 seconds, for third in the women's 800 metres, behind Australian Susan Andrews (2:00.32) and Toni Hodgkinson of New Zealand.
Australian Jane Pittman won the women's 400 hurdles in 55.61, beating Jamaican Patrina Allen (56.15) into second spot.
American twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison underlined their status as 400 metres medal contenders for Sydney.
Alvin won in 44.74 seconds and Calvin just behind in 45.17, followed by Jamaicans Davian Clarke (45.70), Michael Blackwood (46.02) and Michael McDonald (46.28), and the Bahamians Tim Munning (46.62) and Chris Brown (46.63). Barbadian Fabian Rollins was disqualified in the event.
In a secondary 400-metre run, Jamaican Danny McFarlane won in 46.52 seconds over teammates Brandon Simpson (46.76) and Sanjay Ayre (46.96) with three-time CARIFTA under-17 champion Wilan Louis sixth in 48.53 seconds.
