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#TRIALS2023 | Celine Riddle edges rivals for U-20 triple jump title

Published:Thursday | July 6, 2023 | 5:30 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter -
Holmwood Technical's Celine Riddle lands in the pit to win the girls' Under-20 triple jump with a leap of 12.69 metres at the National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium today.
Kenyon Hemans
Holmwood Technical's Celine Riddle lands in the pit to win the girls' Under-20 triple jump with a leap of 12.69 metres at the National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium today.

Holmwood Technical’s Celine Riddle won the Under-20 triple jump at the National Senior and Junior Championships (Trials) at the National Stadium, following a 12.69-metre leap today.

Riddle achieved the feat on her fourth attempt to get the better of St. Jago’s Jade-Ann Dawkins, who finished second with a best of 12.63 metres and Jade-Ann Smith representing Excelsior, who rounded off the top three spots by cutting the sand at 12.22 metres.

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