 Carmen Smith and Una Morris became Jamaica's first major female athletics medalists by winning a silver and bronzes respectively.The Jamaican Men's 4x110yards team of Lynnsworth Headley, Mike Fray, Pablo McNeill and Wellesley Clayton also got silver and there were another three bronzes won by the team on the track.At the 1968 Olympics, Lennox Miller won a silver medal behind record breaking Jim Hines in the 100 m. The Jamaican 4x100 m relay team was a huge gold medal prospect as they had the 100 m silver medalist Lennox Miller, they smashed the world record in the heats but Errol Stewart, Mike Fray, Clifton Forbes and Lennox Miller could only manage fourth place in the final and looked on as the Americans broke the world record they had set only a day before.