LIMA, Peru — Kerrica Hill joined compatriot Gillian Russell as the only repeat winners of the 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Under 20 Championships when she claimed victory in 12.99 seconds (-0.3m/s) on Friday at Estadio Atletico de la Videna in Lima, Peru, defending her title won two years ago in Cali, Colombia.

Jamaica won two medals on Friday — including a gutsy bronze by Shanoya Douglas in the Women’s 200m — for a total of three, including Alana Reid’s gold in the Women’s 100m on Wednesday, and sits ninth in the medals tables.

Jamaica could add as many as five more medals on a busy final day with qualifiers in the Men’s Discus Throw and Men’s 400m Hurdles as well as three relays — both the 4x100m and the Women’s 4x400m.

Croatia’s Mia Wild took the silver medal in 13.15 seconds and Australia’s Delta Amidzovski won bronze with 13.24 seconds.

Russell had won her titles in 1990 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. And on Friday, in dreadful conditions and in a slightly cold rain, Hill was grateful as she said, “I don’t know how I feel yet because we had a rough season, so to be a double champion, it’s really good.”

Hill, who was hampered by a thigh injury that saw her miss most of the season, said: “The last month coming into Lima was the best Kerrica I have seen since 2023, and I knew that I could [repeat], and I just had to believe in myself and let go and let God do the work.”

She never challenged her championship record of 12.77 seconds set two years ago but said, “Personally, I think that I could go faster but, as I said, the condition is not the best but 12.99, we are good with that.”

Douglas battled bravely for her bronze, running 23.10 seconds (0.0m/s) as 100m silver medallist and Olympic Games semi-finalist Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands took the gold in 22.74 seconds, ahead of Australia’s Torrie Lewis who ran a personal best 22.88 seconds.

As she did in the semi-finals, Douglas had to get medical attention right after the race, and said while she was hoping for more,“I have to be grateful because I could have finished fourth and not get a medal so I am grateful for the third I had,” she said.

Today, world leader Shaiquan Dunn will seek a medal after qualifying for the final of the Men’s Discus Throw — his second final qualification — throwing 57.82m in the preliminary round yesterday.

Dunn, who was ninth in the Men’s Shot Put on Tuesday, was 11th overall as only five athletes got over the 60.00m automatic qualifying mark.

He was sixth in his group, getting his best throw in the first round before a sub-par 37.68m in the second round, then finished with a foul.

South Africa’s Juan Marais led the qualifying with 61.54m, followed by Mykhailo Brudin of Ukraine (61.39m), and American Bryce Rutland with a personal best 61.11m.

Despite easily winning his semi-final heat and booking a place in the final of the Men’s 400m Hurdles, Daniel Wright says he hopes to make amends in the final today.

Wright ran 51.11 seconds, comfortably ahead of Chile’s Ramon Fuenzalida who ran a personal best 51.33 seconds but was the seventh-best qualifier.

Trevoy Smith was eighth in his semi-final in 54.24 seconds and failed to advance, while Kelly-Ann Carr also missed out on a place in the women’s final as she hit a hurdle early in her race, stumbled badly, and finished eighth in 1:00.33 minutes.

Both sprint relay teams led their qualification. A strong Jamaican team — anchored by Women’s 100m gold medallist Alana Reid — ran 43.81 seconds in the first round, beating Puerto Rico who ran a national Under 20 record (45.28), and Italy who ran 45.55 seconds.

Reid, who spoke on behalf of the team, said they were satisfied with the effort.

“I just did enough to let my team qualify for the final,” she said. “I mean, we came out here and we gave up our best. We did enough just to qualify for tomorrow’s final.”

Jace Whitter, who led off the Men’s 4x100m team, is confident they will win the gold medal as they ran 39.54 seconds on Friday.

Thanks to safe exchanges the team of Whitter, Gary Card, Nyrone Wade and Deandre Daley easily beat Trinidad and Tobago (39.77) and Nigeria (40.28).

Jamaica’s medal prospects were helped when the USA failed to complete their race and South Africa, with two medallists in the Men’s 100m, were disqualified in the preliminaries.

The Women’s 4x400m Relay team advanced to today’s final after placing second in their preliminary race on Friday.

Jamaica were edged on the line by Colombia, running 3:38.04 minutes to grab an automatic spot, with the South Americans clocking 3:38.01.

Abrina Wright gave the team a good start, handing over to Shanque Williams and Anecia Campbell who opened up a 25m lead.

Nahomy Castro split 52.65 seconds on the anchor for Colombia to catch Fletcher (55.10), inches before the finishing line.

Kerrica Hill is all smiles as she crosses the line to retain her women’s 100m title at the World Athletics U20 Championship in Lima, Peru on Friday. (Collin Reid, courtesy of KFC)

Daniel Wright wins his 400m Hurdles Semi-final. (Collin Reid, courtesy of KFC)