BY ELTON TUCKER, STAR Sports Editor
MELBOURNE, Australia
REUTERS - Jamaica's Maurice Smith competes in the men's Decathlon Discus Throw at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne today.
JAMAICA HAD ANOTHER golden night in track and field at the XVIII Commonwealth Games in Melbourne on Tuesday. Trecia Smith added Commonwealth glory to the triple jump world title she won last year in Helsinki while Maurice Wignall captured his first major gold medal by taking the men's 110 metre hurdles gold in an impressive 13.26 seconds.
The wins carried Jamaica's gold medal tally at the Games to four and to eight medals overall, four gold, two silver and two bronze after six days of competition.
Maurice Smith, who like Wignall, attended Calabar High took second in the decathlon and Novlene Williams third inthe women's 400m.
London-based Smith said victory was not as easy as it looked as she could have made mistakes. "It was not too easy but surely not as hard as my other competitions," Smtih said.
She had the event won from her first leap of 13.96m. Nobody got close and she went up to 14.03m and 14.39m before retiring for the night. Nigeria's Otonoye Iworima was second with 13.53m and England's
Nadia Williams third with a best of 13.42m. Wignall was happy with his victory.
"I am particularly pleased with the time. It is fast for this time of the year and it indicates that there is a lot to come," he said. Scotland's Chris Baillie took silver in 13.61 just edging out England's Andrew Turner, 13.62.
Maurice Smith engaged in a ding-dong struggle throughout the final day of the gruelling ten-event decathlon with Englishman Dean Macey and Australia's
Jason Dudley. Macey prevailed despite injury with a final points tally of 8,143. Smith got silver with 8,074 while Dudley got bronze with 8001.
In the final event of Tuesday night former national champion Novlene Williams, 51.12, took bronze behind England's Christine Ohuruogu 50.28 and world and Olympic champion Tonique Williams of the Bahamas, 50.76.
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