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

BRESSANONE, Italy:

Jamaica failed to add to Traves Smikle's first day bronze on yesterday's second day of the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships.

In two finals contested, Deandre Whitehorne and Samantha Elliott, in the 100m and 100m hurdles, respectively, the black, green and gold flag was never seen inside the Sport Arena, apart from when Smikle collected his bronze. Jamaica are joint 16th on the medals table with one bronze, the same as Italy, Ethiopia, China and Romania.

USA lead with five medals (one gold, silver and two bronze) 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 11.39 seconds.

"Disappointed," was how Whitehorne described her perfor-mance. "I was expecting to finish in the top three," she added.

Personal best

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

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

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

Earlier, Keenan Davis finished eighth in her semi-final and did not advance. Davis' time was 14.22.

Also failing to advancing to finals 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 hopes in today's 400m final, seeking the country's second medal.

Bell qualified for the final after winning semi-final one in 48.03. However, he has semi-final two winner and World Youth leader Kirani James of Grenada to contend with later this afternoon. James clocked 46.43. In fact, the top four in semi-final two were all under 48 seconds..

Also on today will be the 200m first-round events. Celia Walters and Sedeitha Palmer will make their international debuts for Jamaica in the girls' event, while Wayne Hyman and Kemar Bailey-Cole will run in the boys' event.