It’s like everybody looks forward to the 100m final. Dacres reached 66.32m, and 2021 Olympic finalist Chad Wright was third with 59.74m. With Dacres also throwing well, 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Smikle moved past the World Championships qualifying standard - 67 metres - in the fifth round to follow earlier efforts measured at 66.56m and 66.05m. Young Kobe Lawrence got a historic shot put silver at the World Under-20 Championships, so it means that we have a young group that is coming up that is ready to take over the mantle, so we need to provide opportunities, facilities, for them to get a chance to excel.” “We are uniquely poised, and apart from the successes of a Dacres and a Smikle in recent years, we need to look at just 2022. The godfather of the local throws movement says infrastructure is needed to continue the trend. It’s like seeing them up close, that this is the Fedrick Dacres, the Traves Smikle, that is kind of where we are,” Vassell said. People wanted autographs, wanted him to sign their shoes, people wanted him to sign shirts, that kind of thing.
“When a Federick Dacres comes in and is hero-worshipped, it kind of tells you the impact that they’re having on locals.
Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.Īsked to explain this year’s jump in entries, he pointed to the much-medalled Dacres. “I remember we had 250 at St Hugh’s, and that was a really large number, and since we moved to Excelsior, which has a lot more space, we’re averaging around 200,” he recalled.
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“It was a scary proposition to have to handle that many entries, but one thing I must say is that the officials came through, and we managed to pull it off,” Vassell said last Tuesday.Įntries more than doubled the previous high from Vassell’s series of throws meets. The lefthanded Smikle defeated his training partners with a winning mark of 68.14 metres, a personal best and a qualifier for this year’s big meet, the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. After a day when Dacres and Smikle were celebrated like superstars, meet director Michael Vassell said the record entry is a sign that the throws are alive and well in Jamaica. With a record entry of 600 throwers bearing witness, discus throwers Traves Smikle and Fedrick Dacres put on a world-class show at the recent King of the Ring all throws meet at Excelsior High School.
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