GARY Card said his training had prepared him for a breakthrough performance, after running a Jamaican junior men’s 100m record 9.93 seconds to finish second in the senior men’s final at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)/Puma National Junior & Senior Championships at the National Stadium on Friday.

The 19-year-old became the third-fastest under-20 athlete in history after finishing behind Oblique Seville’s world-leading 9.82 seconds, and said his daily training environment had given him confidence that a fast time was coming.

“Based on training times and how I felt overall, I knew that I could go where I’ve never gone before — and I was excited to do so,” Card said after lowering the personal best 10.03 seconds he ran at the Penn Relays in April.