By Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer 
Calabar's Josef Robertson (left) races past his teammate, Akeil Facey (centre), to win the Class One boys' 110m hurdles event at
yesterday's National Hurdles and Field Events Championships at the National Stadium. Robertson won in 14.11 seconds. - Junior Dowie/Staff Photographer
CLASS TWO sprint hurdlers Andre Collins of Jamaica College and St. Jago's Natasha Ruddock dominated yesterday's final day of the National Hurdles and Field Events Championships at the National Stadium with record-breaking runs.
Both athletes won their events, the 110m and 100m hurdles, in record times respectively.
Also breaking records yesterday were Tarik Edwards of Wolmer's (7.51) in the boys' Class One long jump; Omari Dookie of Kingston College (2.05) in the boys' Class Two high jump; Kimberley Williams of Vere (12.77) in the girls' triple jump Open and Rose-Marie Carty of Alpha (11.43) in the girls' 80m hurdles.
Collins ran 14.02 seconds, faster than the Class One time yesterday, to better STETHS' Mark Riley's nine-year-old mark of 14.34.
In the process, Collins defeated Camperdown's Michael Johnson (14.54) and KC's Keiron Stewart (14.57).
In the girls' 100m hurdles, Ruddock destroyed a strong field to win in 13.77, cutting four hundredth of a second off the previous record of 13.81 set by Keisha Brown in 2001.
SECOND AND THIRD POSITIONS
Kimberley Laing of Immaculate (13.99) and Francine Simpson of Edwin Allen (14.53) finished behind Ruddock, the Junior Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) Under-17 champion.
Ruddock's time was also faster than Vere's Class One runner, Inderia Spence, who won her final in 14.39. Alpha's Nikeisha Wilson (14.41) and Jody-Ann Gordon of Morant Bay (14.98) were second and third.
The girls' 80m hurdles went to Carty in a record 11.43 seconds, beating Ruddock's 11.56 set in 2001. Wolmer's Janelle Gordon, who ran 11.48, also went below the record, but was second ahead of third-placed Jillisa Grant of Vere (11.81).
In the boys' Class One 110m hurdles, Josef Robertson caught his teammate, Akeil Facey, at the final hurdle to win in 14.11. Facey (14.12) finished ahead of David Powell of JC (14.25).
The Class Three 100m hurdles went to Jerome Myers of Calabar in 13.81, beating his teammate Carlie Cameron (13.83) and Camperdown's Chadwick Arid (14.18).
In the field, Dookie's 2.05m in the boys' high jump Class Two equalled Wolmer's Enrico Gordon's 1993 mark. In doing so, he defeated Andre Riley of Calabar (1.91m) and Ramon Cooper of JC (1.88m).
Edwards leapt 7.51m to erase Maurice Wignall's and Mervyn Swaby's joint mark of 7.35m set in 1994 and 1998 respectively. KC's Alain Bailey was second in this event in 7.46m.
Williams' distance of 12.77 bettered Morant Bay's Christine Brown's record of 12.72m. Williams' Vere teammate Rose-Ann Jones was second with a jump of 12.65.
Calabar's Sean Samuels threw 15.20 to win the boys' Class One shot put. He defeated KC's Kieton Wilson (14.87) into second.
The Sunshine Cereals 400m hurdles Grand Prix Series results were not available at press time.
