February 22, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaican — Edwin Allen Excessive and Holmwood Technical gained the highschool boys’ and women’ 4x800m occasions at Saturday’s Gibson/McCook Relays on the Nationwide Stadium.
Edwin Allen Excessive had completed fourth however had been promoted to first place after the disqualification of the highest three schools- Calabar Excessive, Jamaica School and final yr’s winners Kingston School.
Edwin Allen gained with seven minutes 52.96 seconds, sooner than the seven minutes 57.72 seconds they ran two weeks earlier on the Western Relays. On Saturday they had been adopted by William Knibb Memorial- eight minutes 01.93 seconds and Clarendon School- eight minutes 10.01 seconds.
Regardless of not having the ability to match the season’s finest eight minutes 49.82 seconds they ran at Western Relays, Holmwood Technical proved their win was not a fluke as they gained at Gibson/McCook in 8:54.06, beating Hydel Excessive-9:04.31 and Convent of Marcy Alpha Academy- 10:32.52.
