PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland – Newly crowned IAAF World Under-18 400 metre champion Antonio Watson of Petersfield High returned home Tuesday with two medals from the championships that ended in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday.

Watson also won a silver medal as part of the Mixed 4×400-metre team.

Seven athletes from western Jamaica participated in the championships where records were set for the crowd in attendance.

Watson’s Petersfield High teammate Shaqueena Foote and Spot Valley High’s Tyrese Reid also won silver medals in the 4x400m; Foote, who was fifth in the individual 400m, ran both relay races; while Reid, who failed to get past the first round of the 800m, anchored the team in the semi-finals.

Watson became the first Petersfield High student to win a gold medal in an individual event at an IAAF Championships and the third athlete from western Jamaica to win a gold at the event.

The other gold medallists were Herbert Morrison’s Dexter Lee at the World Youth Championships in 2007 and Green Island High’s Odail Todd in 2011.

Meanwhile, Cornwall College’s Owayne Owens was fifth in triple jump, surpassing his previous personal best three times to finish with 15.55 metres.

A third Petersfield High athlete, Daniel Cope, who was named the male team captain, failed to get past the first round of the discus throw.

Rhodes Hall’s Rovane Williams ran his personal best in the semi-finals, but hit several barriers on his way to fifth place in the finals of the 400m hurdles, while Rusea’s High’s Brithon Senior was a semi-finalist in the boys’ 110m hurdles.