Twenty-year-old Lavanya Williams has been Jamaica’s breakout female sprinter this season, and on Saturday, at the sixth Félix Sánchez Meet in the Dominican Republic, a World Continental Tour Silver meet, the pint-sized athlete further underlined her growing status.

Competing in the women’s 100 metres, the former William Knibb and Rusea’s High School standout produced a stellar performance. After winning her preliminary-round heat with a legal wind reading of +0.7 metres per second, she sprinted to a personal-best 10.90 seconds in the final to set a new meet record. Her winning mark was the fifth-fastest by a Jamaican woman in the event this season.

Jamaica’s Ashanti Moore finished second in 10.97 seconds, the 12th-fastest time by a Jamaican woman this season, while Liranyi Alonso of the Dominican Republic was third in 11.05.