BoltAnthony Foster, Freelance Writer
WORLD Junior 200 metres champion, Usain Bolt, left the island yesterday for London en-route to Monte Carlo where he will be a guest of IAAF president Lamine Diack at the World Athletics Gala on Sunday night.
The 16-year-old William Knibb student, who will be joined in France by Jamaica's world number one 400m runner Michael Blackwood will return to the island on Monday.
Meanwhile, World Junior bronze medallist, Jamaica's Sheryl Morgan, was the country's only gold medal winner at the recent Barrientos Games held in Cuba when she raced to victory in the women's 400 hurdles.
The Carifta Games 400 metre Under-20 champion won in 60.26 seconds, leaving Cuban's Yaniuska Perez (61.27), a former Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Junior Athletic 300m low hurdles champion, on her way to victory.
Morgan, a fifth form student at Holmwood Technical High school, said she did not learn anything from her experience in Cuba.
"The competition was very weak, the standard was below what I expected. I'm used to stronger competition here in Jamaica. I won easily, I wasn't under any pressure at all, I won comfortable," the 19-year-old, a bronze medallist at the recent World Junior Championships, said.
The Maurice Wilson-coached athlete she is now preparing for the senior CAC games to be held in El Salvador later this month.
In other results, Lansford Spence's 46.83 gave him second in the men's 400 metre, Nicholas Neufville finished sixth in the men's triple jump with a leap of 14.73, Kevin Webb's 11:30.11 gave him fourth in the 3000m steeple chase, while Jason Morgan 15.76m finished fifth in the shot put.
