Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer 
Yoel Hernandez of Cuba (left) and Maurice Wignall of Jamaica compete during the men's 60 metres hurdles semi-finals at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Moscow yesterday. Wignall won the race in 7.58 seconds but could only finish fourth in the final. - Reuters
NATIONAL RECORDS were the order of the day, but Jamaica ended yesterday's second day of the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Russian capital of Moscow without a medal.
Jamaica expected at least two medals from Trecia-Kaye Smith and Lacena Golding-Clarke, but that did not happen. This means the country's medal tally of five from the last Championships in Budapest, Hungary will be difficult to be beat.
LEADING HOPES FOR MEDALS
Kenia Sinclair, who was in record-breaking form yesterday, and 400m runners Davian Clarke, who enters the final with the third best time, and Novlene Williams, along with the 4x400m relay teams are Jamaica's leading hopes for medals, come this afternoon.
Sinclair, the World Outdoor Championships semi-finalist, lowered her Central American and Caribbean (CAC) and national record in the semi-finals of the women's 800m to 2:00.06.
Sinclair's time bettered her previous best of 2:01.81 done at February's Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Olympic gold medallist Maria Mutola of Mozambique (2:00.29) followed Sinclair, who enters this afternoon's final with the fastest time.
In the women's triple jump final, World Outdoor Champion Smith, broke the national indoor record twice in two jumps, her only legal leaps of six, but that was only good enough for fourth.
Smith, who fouled on her first jump, returned to break her own national record of 14.75m by jumping 14.78m, then later bettered it with an impressive 14.84m, which at the time placed her in third position.
In the end, Smith finished behind two Russian entries, Tatyana Lebedeva, the Olympic champion who leapt a world leading 14.95m and Anna Pyatyana who did a personal best 14.93.
Sudan's Yamile Aldama was third with a leap of 14.86m.
In the 60m hurdles final, world leader Lacena-Golding Clarke finished a disappointing sixth in 7.94 seconds, far below her season best of 7.83.
BEATEN TO THE LINE
Golding-Clarke, who had the fastest reaction time, was beaten to the line by a new national record for Ireland's Derval O'Rourke (7.84), Spain's Glory Alozie (7.86) and Sweden's Susanna Kallur (7.87).
Golding-Clarke had earlier run 7.98 in the first round and 7.94 in the semi-finals while Jamaica's second entry in Michelle Freeman ran 7.90 in the first round, but stumbled her way to 36.17 in the semi-finals.
In the men's event, Maurice Wignall, who went into the final with the second fastest time, bettered that with a season best of 7.52, but that was only good for fourth.
United States' Terrence Trammell ran a world leading 7.43 seconds to win the event ahead of Cuban Dayron Robles who did a personal best of 7.46.
