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 on Thursday, March 27. He won the event. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
March 28, 2025
#Champs2025: Calabar’s Shaw completes Class 3 high/long jump double
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Calabar High’s Shamar Shaw completed the boys’ Class 3 high/long jump double after winning the gold medal in the horizontal jump on Friday’s penultimate day of the 115th ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships with 6.47m (-0.8m/s).
Shaw had won the high jump on Thursday, clearing 1.78m, and despite having just three legal marks, all would have been good enough to win the title.
He jumped 6.34m and 6.44m in the fifth and sixth rounds, respectively, as Kingston College’s Daquan Dawkins took the silver medal with 6.18m (-1.6m/s) and Jamaica College’s Omeco Henclewood was third with 5.95m (-1.8m/s).
-Paul Reid