Jamaica's Danielle Dowie (left) poses with her silver medal along with gold medal winner, Russia's Vera Rudakova (centre), and third place Deborah Rodriguez of Uruguay after the medal ceremony for the 400m hurdles on yesterday's final day of the sixth IAAF World Youth Championships in Bressanone, Italy. - photo by Anthony Foster

BRESSANONE, Italy:

Jamaica ended the sixth IAAF World Youth Champion-ships here at the Sports Arena 24th on the medals table.

The country's tally remained at one silver and a bronze as on yesterday's final day Jamaica failed to get among the medals in the three finals they contested.

Kenya topped the table with six gold, seven silver and one bronze ahead of USA six gold, five silver and five bronze medals.

Grenada, thanks to Kirani James' 200m/400m double, ended in eighth position.

Disappointing results

This is Jamaica's worst ever showing at a World Youth event. They won nine medals (2G, 5S, 2B) last time in Ostrava, Czech Republic (2007) . In 2005 in Morocco Jamaica brought home one silver and two bronze medals.

It was also the second time Jamaica ended the competition at this level without a relay medal, 4x100m or medley relays.

Jamaica had high expectation going into the relays yesterday, but both medley relay teams were disappointing.

"Yes, I am very disappointed, because I ran as hard as I could, but life goes on. We didn't get a medal, but that will not bring us down," was how lead-off runner Deandre Whitehorne described the end result.

Danielle Dowie, the only girl to win a medal at the championships and who returned to run the 300-metre leg on the relay, said: "We are disappointed, but we did our best."

The quartet of Whitehorne, Celia Walters, Dowie and Ristananna Tracey crossed the line in fifth clocking 2:09.79.

Whitehorne gave the team a good start, but Walters' 200m leg was below par, which gave Dowie and anchor leg runner Tracey, who also did not have the best of runs, too much to do.

United States, as expected, won in a World Youth leading 2:04.32 ahead of Hungary (2:09.22) and Romania (2:09.25).

On the boys' side, again, Jamaica were always in the medal hunt, but Javere Bell on the anchor leg fell before he crossed the line.

United States again topped the field in a World Youth best of 1:50.33 ahead of Brazil (1:52.66) and Japan (1:52.82).

Lone bright spark

Jamaica's lone bright spark on the day was long jumper Rochelle Farquharson who came within two centimetres of a bronze medal. Farquharson leapt 6.03 metres, a personal best effort, for fourth.

"Performing against the best in the world and finishing fourth, I think that's great for me," said Farquharson.

Janieve Russell, who was also below her best, recorded 5.86m for ninth in the event won by Chinese Minjia Lu (6.22m).

In the 200m final, Walters was again way below her best running 24.09 for eighth. Jodie Williams of Great Britain completed the sprint double with a World Youth leading 23.08 seconds for victory, the same time as runner-up Allison Peter of US Virgin Islands.