MONTEGO BAY, St James — Allison Randall, one of Jamaica’s newest national track and field representative, smashed the oldest senior women’s national records on Saturday when she erased Marlene Lewis’s 26-year-old discus throw mark after winning the event at the University of Miami Hurricane Invitational in Florida on Saturday with a new life time best 61.21m.

The 24-year-old American born athlete smashed the previous record of 53.58m set by Marlene Lewis in May 1986 in Abilene, Texas.

Randall, who won the national senior title last year with 53.28m before winning a bronze medal at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Puerto Rico with 52.75m, also attained the Olympic B qualifying standard 59.50m and just off the A standard of 62.0m.

On Saturday, she broke the national record twice, first in the second round when she threw 57.24m after opening with 52.28m before improving on that in the fourth round with the 61.21m, finishing with 57.25m on her sixth and final throw, fouling her third and fifth attempts.

A 2011 graduate of Morgan State University, Randall who trains at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia under Gregory Jack, qualified to represent Jamaica through her Jamaican mother and first competed in the national colours last year.

“I’m really grateful to be able to represent Jamaica and play a role in the development of the throwing events in Jamaica,” she told the Observer yesterday. “I’m very excited by and hope to get the (Olympic) A standard soon.”

Randall’s previous personal best was 56.51m which was better than the Jamaican record but came before she was qualified to represent the island.