#Champs2025: Calabar’s Shamar Shaw wins boys’ Class 3 high jump
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Calabar High’s Shamar Shaw won the gold medal in an exciting boys’ Class Three high jump on Thursday’s third day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.
All three medallists cleared 1.78m and had to be separated by count-backs, tie breakers, to decide the medals with Kingston College’s Jamari Nugent and Herbert Morrison Technical’s Leondrae Thomas sharing the silver medal.

Calabar High’s Shamar Shaw participates in the boys’ Class Three high jump final at the 115th ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. He won the event. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
Shaw was perfect over five heights, clearing each on his first attempt before failing at 1.81m.
Nugent and Thomas, the latter who was 10th last year both needed a third attempt to clear 1.78m.
— Paul Reid