Javere Bell won his 400m semi-final and will line up in today's final. - Contributed

Bressanone, Italy:

Jamaica ended yesterday's second day at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships here at the Sports Arena medal-less.

In two finals contested, Deandre Whitehorne and Samantha Elliott, in the 100m and 100m hurdles, respectively, the black, green and gold flag was never flown inside the arena, apart from when Traves Smikle was collecting the bronze medal won on Wednesday's opening day.

Jamaica are joint 16th in the medal table with one bronze, tied with Italy, Ethiopia, China and Romania.

United States leads

The United States leads with five medals (1G, 2S, 2B) ahead of Kenya (1G, 1S) and Germany (1G, 2B).

Whitehorne, in the girls' 100m final, finished eighth in 11.82 seconds. The event went to Great Britain's Jodie Williams, who recorded a personal best and world youth leading time of 11.39 seconds.

Whitehorne described her performance as disappointing.

"I was expecting to finish in the top three," she said.

Earlier, Elliott, who ran a personal best 12.52 in the heats, was seventh in the final, running 13.54. Isabella Pedersen took the event in 13.23 ahead of the American pair of Kori Carter (13.26) and Bridgette Owens (13.39), both had personal best efforts.

Elliott was not happy with her performance, "because I ran better in the semi-finals, I wanted another personal best," she said.

"I was a little bit tried after the semi-finals, but overall I am happy that I ran a PR," she added.

Earlier, Keenan Davis finished eighth in her semi-final and did not make it to the final. Davis' time was 14.22.

failing to advance

Also failing to advance to the final were Kemar Bailey-Cole, Chantal Duncan and Sandrae Farquharson.

Bailey-Cole ran 10.66 for fifth in his 100m semi-final race, which was not enough to take him through.

Farquharson pulled up after 250 metres in her 400m semi-final race while Duncan's 55.90 could not take her any further.

However, Javere Bell will carry Jamaica's flag in today's 400m final, seeking the country's second medal.