Jamaica's junior team's technical leader, Jerry Holness, believes the four individual medallists were the country's shining lights during the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships, which ended yesterday.

"All the medallists, I think they worked very hard ... the conditions did not favour Jamaican or Caribbean athletes ... this minute it's raining, another minute it's hot," explained Holness.

Keiron Stewart in the 110m hurdles (bronze), Nickel Ashmeade and Shermaine Williams' silver medals in the men's 200m and women's 100m hurdles, respectively, and Dexter Lee's men's 100m gold are the individual medallists, but Holness made special mention of the latter.

"Dexter ... obviously, he won the gold. People might be looking at the time and saying, it was not that fast, but a gold is a gold, and that's what counts," he said.

"A lot of events sometimes are basically tactical. Sometimes you don't get the best in terms of time out of a championship, " added Holness, who is also coach at Manchester High.

Jamaica, traditionally strong in the relays, failed in the 4x400m. While the men finished fourth, the women did not make it to the medal round.