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Led by world leaders Sabrina Dockery, Daniel Clarke and Joseph Salmon, several Jamaicans are ranked in the top five of their respective events on the World Under-20 Top List.

Following her sizzling run of 11.08 seconds in the semi-finals of the Girls' Class One 100 metres at the recent Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships, Dockery of Lacovia High holds the number one spot in the event among females.

Shanoya Douglas of Muschett High, the World Under-20 bronze medallist in the 200m, is ranked fifth with her season-best time of 11.32 seconds.

Kingston College's Clarke and Salmon of Jamaica College (JC) are the top-ranked male athletes in the 110m hurdles and boys' discus, respectively.

Clarke leads the rankings with his personal best of 13.06 seconds, achieved when winning the Under-20 event in early March at the Carifta Trials at G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport.

Sitting just behind Clarke at number two is Calabar's Shaquane Gordon, who clocked a personal best of 13.11 seconds to upstage Clarke and win the Class One event at the ISSA Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships (Champs), where Clarke placed second.

Following an undefeated season in the boys' Class One discus, Salmon, the only Jamaican ranked in the top 10 in field events, sits at the top of the rankings with his personal best of 62.14m, achieved in his victory at Champs.

Several other Jamaicans are ranked in the top five of their respective events, with Wolmer's Boys' Gary Card leading in two disciplines. After his semi-final run of 10.06 seconds in the boys' Class One 100m, Card is ranked number two, while the vastly improved Tyrece Foreman of St. George's College is at number five following his runner-up finish at Champs in 10.29 seconds, behind Card. Bayana Walaza of South Africa leads the rankings with 9.99 seconds.

Card, who clocked a season-best 20.53 seconds earlier this year, is ranked fifth in the 200 metres, where Australia's young sensation Gout Gout leads the world with 20.05.

Edwin Allen High's Kelly Ann Carr is also ranked in the top five in two events. Carr, the gold medallist in the Girls' Open 400m hurdles at Champs with a time of 57.41 seconds, is ranked third with her season-best 57.27 seconds, recorded when she won the event at the Central Athletics Championships at G.C. Foster College.

Nastassia Fletcher of Hydel High, the Champs silver medallist with 57.92 seconds, is ranked fifth. Michelle Smith of the US Virgin Islands leads the event with 55.98 seconds.

Carr's winning time of 52.57 seconds at the Central Athletics Championships in the Girls' Class One 400m places her third in the rankings, where Nigeria's Chiome Nwachukwu leads with 52.07 seconds.

Three Jamaicans are in the top five of the girls' Under-20 100m hurdles, led by Wolmer's Girls' Tiana Marshall.

Marshall, the Class Two winner at Champs, holds the third-best time in the world with her personal best of 13.33 seconds, achieved when she won the Under-20 event at the Carifta Trials. Jody Ann Daley of Hydel, who won the Class One event at Champs in 13.40 seconds, is ranked fourth, while Bryana Davidson of St Jago High, who finished second behind Marshall at the Carifta Trials in 13.45 seconds, is ranked fifth. South Africa's Tumi Ramokgopa leads the rankings with 13.22.

Douglas, with her season-best 23.12 seconds recorded earlier this season at G.C. Foster College, is ranked fifth in the half-lap event, where the United States' Elise Cooper leads with 22.64 seconds.

Kingston College's Tahj Marques White and Jamaica College's Princewell Martin round out the top-five rankings for Jamaican athletes.

White, following his gold medal run in the Class One 400 metres at Champs in 45.84 seconds, is ranked fifth, where Ervin Pearson of the United States leads with 45.42.

Martin, the Carifta Trials winner in the Under-20 boys' 400m hurdles with a time of 50.84 seconds, is also ranked fifth, where Njabulo Mbatha of South Africa leads with 49.40 seconds.