Bermuda finished an incredible seventh in the Pan American Junior Athletic Championships medal table, with Latroya Darrell leaping onto the podium to join gold medallist Arantxa King.

Darrell, a frequent medallist in the Carifta Games, cleared a personal best 1.79 metres to claim joint silver in the women's high jump, Bermuda's second medal of the Games held in Windsor, Ontario, Canada over the weekend.

Her leap was also enough to reach the qualifying standard for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne next year, an event for which King and 1500 metres runner Ashley Couper have already qualified.

The Bermudian cleared the same height as eventual winner Rhonda Watkins of Trinidad but was relegated to the silver on countback.

King, the newly-crowned world youth champion in the long jump, had earlier won the same event in Windsor, leaping 6.21 metres with her third jump to add the Pan-Am junior crown to her recent list of achievements which included the US High School Championships, where she triumphed in the triple jump.

In other events in Canada, Deon Brangman finished 11th in the high jump with a leap of 1.95 metres while Taijuan Talbot (800m) and Arantxa's sister Akilah King (200m) failed to reach the finals of their events.