NATIONAL senior representative Sheri-Ann Brooks continued her good form this season, as she landed a double at the St Martin Invitational meet on the weekend.

Fresh off a 100 metres win in Guadeloupe, Brooks, the defending 100 metres Commonwealth champion, captured the sprint double by winning the 100 metres in 11.24 seconds, ahead of British Virgin Islands' Taheisha Harrigan, who finished second in 11.26 seconds. Brooks then returned to win the 200 metres in 22.83 seconds.

scoring wins

The meet also saw three other Jamaicans, in Lerone Clarke, Oral Thompson and Ricardo Chambers scoring wins.

Clarke, who represented Jamaica at the World Indoor Championships in the 60 metres, was in fine form as he stopped the clock at 10.19 seconds to win the men's 100 metres, getting the better of Trinidad's Richard Thompson, who had to settle for the runner-up spot in 10.21. Former national senior representative Ainsley Waugh was third in 10.43 seconds. Former outstanding national junior representative Remaldo Rose finished fourth in 10.71 seconds.

Thompson clocked 20.55 seconds to take the men's 200 metres, ahead of Clarke who finished second in 20.89, with Waugh taking third in 20.98 seconds.

National 400 metres champion Ricardo Chambers rounded off Jamaica's success at the meet with a win in the one-lap event, where he clocked 45.57 seconds with Thompson second in 45.81 seconds.

second-place finish

Former Holmwood Technical quarter-miler Sheryl Morgan had a second-place finish in the women's 400 metres in 52.51 seconds, as the United States' Shana Cox won the event in 52.28 seconds.

There were mixed results for Jamaican athletes at the 4th Ponce meet in Puerto Rico, where local hero Javier Culson and the United States' David Oliver posted world-leading times in their events.

Dwight Thomas had the best result as a Jamaican at the meet as he finished second in the men's 110 metres hurdles in 13.41 seconds. Oliver improved his season best by winning in a world-leading time of 13.12 seconds.

Culson became the first athlete to clock sub-48 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles this season, as he raced to a national record and a world-leading time of 47.72 seconds, for an impressive win to get the better of the United States Michael Tinsley (48.46) seconds and Trinidad and Tobago's Jehue Gordon who finished third in 48.47 seconds. Jamaica's Danny McFarlane could only manage fifth in 49.36 seconds.

-R.G.