The "Hawai'i's Fastest Human" 100-meter dash took a little more than 11 seconds to complete yesterday at Punahou School.

It took a lot longer to determine a winner.

After reviewing a photo of the finish for about 10 minutes, meet officials ruled Chad Miyamoto edged Shawn Nakata by a hair in the signature event of the Punahou Relays.

Miyamoto, running in Lane 5, and Nakata, in Lane 7, both were timed in 11.1 seconds. But the photo showed Miyamoto lunging across the finish line first.

After the race, Miyamoto paced anxiously next to the officials' tent with the straps of his maroon track uniform pulled down, while the other seven competitors vacated the area.

"There were so many things going through my mind. I didn't think I won, people said I got it," Miyamoto said.

"I saw (Nakata) right next to me and I thought I got him, but when you look ... I didn't know where the line is, so he could have gotten me. I wasn't sure."

It was a very rewarding victory for Miyamoto, who won in 2004 and 2005, because he suffered an injury during last year's race.

"I had to come back from last year. I blew my calf out during the race last year trying to three-peat," he said. "I trained the whole year just trying to get healthy. I felt the whole year, it was a losing effort trying to get back to where I was."

Miyamoto, 29, added he didn't need surgery on his left calf after last year's race, but was inactive for 11 weeks.

For the high schoolers, there were 12 individual field events and 17 relay events yesterday.

The best comeback of the meet was turned in by the King Kekaulike boys 1,600-meter sprint relay team, which won in 3:45.14. Eli Smith ran the first 200 meters, Max Ross ran the second 200, Jesse Henderson ran 400 and Reid Hunter covered the final 800.

King Kekaulike was last until Henderson made up ground and got into second place. Hunter took the final handoff and trailed the lead runner by about 30 meters. Hunter passed him with about 70 meters remaining and won going away.

"I just tried to catch up to him and hold on to that place until the end where I could do my best to sprint past him," Hunter said.

'Iolani finished second in 3:54.80 and Saint Louis was third in 3:59.91.

It was the first time King Kekaulike had won an event at the Punahou Relays. The Maui school opened its doors during the 1995-'96 school year.

"It's a really good honor," Hunter said. "The states are on Maui this year (May 18 and 19) and we wanted to come out and run with the best."

Two meet records were set.

Punahou's Samantha Cabreros broke her own record in the triple jump with a height of 38 feet, 4 1/2 inches. The previous record was 37-10 1/2 set last year.

The Kamehameha girls set a record in the 4x180 shuttle hurdles in 1:39.1. The previous record was 1:41.4, set by Punahou in 1999.

Savannah Wolfe, Kylee-Ann Choy, Alana Durrett and Alana Meditz were on the winning team.

'Iolani was second in 1:42.5 and Radford third in 1:43.97.

"This is a great event in terms of getting a hurdles team together," said Kamehameha coach Lea Arce. "This is the best team we've ever had in the history of Kamehameha in terms of the girls team."

Kamehameha won the football/power relay in 48.83. The event had six runners per team, all 200 pounds or more, running 67 meters apiece. Word of Life was second in 49:35 and Farrington finished third in 49.62.

"It's fun competing against guys that are about the same size as you," said Kahikolu Pescaia, who ran the anchor leg for Kamehameha. "Track is usually for smaller, skinny people. To see big football players coming out and doing this, it is really good fun. Especially since a lot of us play against each other during the season."

Reach Kyle Sakamoto at ksakamoto@honoluluadvertiser.com.