BY ANTHONY FOSTER, Freelance Writer
Sprint sensation Usain Bolt in full flight. - FILE
USAIN BOLT WAS Jamaica's best teenage athlete during the 2005 season according to the IAAF's list of top athletes.
Bolt finished sixth on the men's senior 200m list with 1266 points. His season best of 19.99 is the joint sixth best time of 2005.
Though he did not run as a junior, the 19-year-old Bolt has the three best times - 19.99, 20.03, 20.14 - as a teenager.
Bolt also placed eighth in the 200m final at the World Championships in Helsinki. Other teenage athletes featured among the best of 2005 are Anneisha McLaughlin, Sonita Sutherland, Sherene Pinnock and Schillonie Calvert.
In her final junior year, 19-year-old McLaughlin finished with gold at the Pan American Junior Championships in Canada and silver at the Carifta Games.
At the Pan American Junior, McLaughlin ran her second best time - 23.00 (eighth best this season) over 200m - and best since her 22.94 for silver at the 2002 World Junior Championships.
She was also a second-place finisher at the Carifta Games in Tobago, finishing in 23.28 behind Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago (23.25).
EIGHTH-FASTEST ATHLETE
Sutherland's career best of 52.10 done at Girls' Championships placed her as the eighth-fastest athlete over 400 in 2004.
The 18-year-old Sutherland ran 52.68 for third at the Pan American Junior Championships, behind Natasha Hastings (52.15) and Canadian Carlene Muir (52.38). She also won her event easily at the CARIFTA Games.
Calvert, 16, a bronze medallist at the World Youth Championships in Marrakech in 11.44, is also among the top 10.
However, it was her 11.40, which was done in the heats at the World Youth that gave her sixth place among the top 'guns'.
Pinnock, an 18-year-old sixth-form student at Edwin Allen, found her way into the top 10 despite having a bitter-sweet season.
Pinnock was faced with high hurdles at Champs, false-started at the Penn Relays, and fell over the final hurdle at Pan America Junior. However, she won a gold medal while running a personal best at the CARIFTA Games.
Her career-best 52.18 at CARIFTA Games in Tobago in April was enough to place her seventh among the best teenage 400m hurdlers.
Jamaica men's 4x400m relay team (3:08.64) is the fifth best, the women's team (3:36.91) is sixth. The women's 4x100m team (45.53) is the third best.
Holmwood girls with times of 3:36.33, 3:36.46 for 4x400m are third and fourth on the list.
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