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Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell produced a personal best effort to equal Colin Jackson’s 32-year-old Commonwealth Games record to win the men’s 110m hurdles gold medal inside the Alexander Stadium, in Birmingham, on Thursday night.

The 21-year-old Broadbell dominated the final from the start to win in 13.08 seconds making up for the disappointment of last year when injury prevented him from going to the Tokyo Olympics.

“I knew I had to stay focused and that is what I did,” said Broadbell. “Sometimes, when you run, you don’t know what is going to happen.

“You just have to execute properly. I’m not sure if I clipped any hurdles.”

Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica celebrates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup).

Shane Brathwaite of Barbados took silver in a season’s best 13.30 while local hero Andy Pozzi won a dramatic battle for bronze ahead of fellow Briton Joshua Zeller.

Pozzi crossed the line in 13.37, just ahead of Zeller, who clocked 13.39.

Broadbell’s teammate Orlando Bennett finished fifth in 13.43 seconds.

The other Jamaican – Hansle Parchment, the Olympic champion – had withdrawn earlier in the day due to a niggle.

Broadbell’s gold represents the second for Jamaica in Birmingham.

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah held off Julien Alfred of St Lucia and Daryll Neita of England in the women’s 100m final on Thursday, to claim Jamaica’s first gold medal of the meet.

Traves Smikle of Jamaica makes an attempt in the men’s discus throw final. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant).

Earlier, Traves Smikle took the bronze medal in the men’s discus with a fourth-round effort of 64.58m.

Smikle’s teammate Roja Stona finished in sixth place with a third-round effort of 62.15m.

Australia’s Matthew Denny smashed his personal best twice to claim a completely dominant victory.

Any of Denny’s six throws in the final would have been good enough to claim the gold medal.

He set a new personal best of 67.24m in the penultimate round, then bettered the mark again a few minutes later with 67.26m with the final throw of the night.

England’s Lawrence Okoye (64.99m) was second.

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Jamaica’s 18-year-old Brianna Lyston moved a step closer to her first major championship medal by securing a spot in the women’s 200m final at the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia on Thursday.

Lyston, who is the gold medal favourite in light of her notable progression this year, advanced from the heats of the 200m semifinals with the quickest time. She won the second heat in 22.83 seconds, beating Mia Brahe-Pedersen of the USA who clocked a new personal best time of 22.95 to secure the other automatic qualifying spot from the heat.

Brahe-Pedersen’s 22.95 represents the second quickest in the heats.

Lyston will be hard to deny in the final on Friday following her improvements this year from 23.18 to 22.53 in the 200m and 11.44 to 11.14 in the 100m. She leads the 200m entries with that PB, which she ran into a -2.2m/s headwind at the Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in April.

Lyston’s teammate Alana Reid also progressed from the semifinals following a second-place finish in her heat.

Reid secured a new personal best time of 23.16, the fifth quickest in the heats. The heat was won by Jayla Jamison of the USA in 23.01, the third quickest in the round.

Earlier, Jamaica’s men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams advanced to their respective finals on Friday.

The team of Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Alexis James, and Tia Clayton easily won heat one of the women’s 4x100m relay to progress. The team clocked 43.28 seconds, easily the quickest over the three heats.

The men’s quartet of Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, Adrian Kerr, Mark-Anthony Daley, and David Lynch finished their heat second, behind Japan, which won in 39.12 seconds, the quickest over the four heats.

Jamaica clocked 39.24, the second quickest going into the medal round.

And Jamaica’s Roshawn Clarke secured a spot in the men’s 400m hurdles final while his teammate Antonio Forbes did not advance.

Clarke moved into Friday’s medal round after he ran a new personal best time of 49.35 to win his semifinal heat. The time represents the quickest over the three heats.

His previous personal best of 49.39 was set in Kingston in June when winning his national U20 title.

Forbes (51.42) crashed out following a sixth-place finish in heat one of the semifinals.

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Theft-accused Ralph Walcott will spend another 28 days behind bars.

With no fixed place of abode, the unemployed 52-year-old qualified for bail, but was unable to walk out of the Oistins Magistrate’s Court today, August 4, 2022, without handcuffs, because he had no surety and no proof of address.

Magistrate Deidre McKenna took the time to explain the situation to the disheartened and frustrated Walcott in the dock.

Standing alone, Walcott who is unrepresented, said that he had permission to stay at someone’s home if released on bail, but the person was not in court today to confirm and support his claim.

Magistrate McKenna remanded Walcott to September 1, 2022, and urged him to make the necessary calls to ensure that his surety and the homeowner will turn up at court on the same day. She stressed that the court was not denying his bail application, but could not in good faith release him back into society with no way of contacting him or finding him if he decided to abscond. Walcott was not pleased. Disappointed, patting his pockets, he said that he has no numbers with him and knows no numbers except for his dad’s. But he was assured by the magistrate that he can make any and all the calls necessary to make sure that in four weeks he has the surety and proof of address at court.

The accused was escorted out of the courtroom grumbling loudly.

Walcott is accused that at the Parish of Christ Church within the Jurisdiction of the Magistrate of District B Oistins on the 26th day of July 2022, he stole one pair of airpods valued $500, one wallet valued $300, one handbag worth $40 and $100 in cash. The items belonged to Brigitte Beauvoir and were valued $940 in total.

Walcott pleaded not guilty to the charge.

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