REGIONAL junior athletes will begin battling for glory today at this year’s 52nd staging of the three-day Carifta Games. The prestigious Caribbean meet is being hosted by Trinidad and Tobago at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. The competition, which...
G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport captured both the men’s and women’s titles at the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championships on Thursday. In the men’s division, it was an overwhelming victory for the hosts as they amassed 212...
Kingston College (KC) warmed up for this month’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia with victories in the 4x100 metres and 4x400m at yesterday’s Grand Slam Track (GST) at the National Stadium. In the 4x100m, KC’s anchor leg runner Kyle Bodden got the...
SIX YEARS ago at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser set the Khalifa International Stadium on fire with a stunning win in the women’s 400 metres final, clocking 48.14 seconds to capture the gold medal. The...
THE WORLD Under-20 list shook ever so slightly after the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) last week, with several athletes performing at levels that put them among the very best athletes in their age group globally...
Many pundits predicted a close finish between Kingston College (KC), Calabar High, and Jamaica College (JC) for the boys’ title on the eve of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, but in the end it turned out to be a one-...
There is a saying that lightning never strikes in one place twice, but the opposite was true for the defending and 10-time girls’ champions Edwin Allen High at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Two years ago,...
HYDEL HIGH’S girls continued their impressive form on the penultimate day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships with Taiefa Gowe putting on a show in the girls’ 2000m steeplechase open with a record-breaking run. Former...
THE 2025 ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships is set for a thrilling last two days, following last night’s 400 metres finals at the National Stadium. Kingston College (KC), after 15 of 42 finals, lead the boys’ standings...
KINGSTON COLLEGE’S Julius Itubo smashed one of two records to fall on the second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) on at the National Stadium yesterday. The second record of the day came from the Class 3...
SABRINA DOCKERY of Lacovia High stole the spotlight on the opening day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, gracing the new track with a sensational 11.12-second run in the preliminary round of the girls’ Class One 100...
CERTAIN EVENTS always capture the fans’ attention at any championships and this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) at the National Stadium should be no different. This year’s competition is expected to be the...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica College’s (JC) track and field team, Dwayne Johnson, is extremely confident just ahead of the start of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletic Championships (Champs). He believes that his team will improve on last year...
Nigerian sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan, who now trains at Racers Track Club, will make her local season debut today at the Velocity Fest 16 track and field meet at Ashenheim Stadium, starting at 4 p.m. The 28-year-old Amusan, the 2022 gold medallist...
The girls’ sprint hurdles are expected to be very competitive across the various classes at next week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. However, the event that could attract the most attention is the Class Two 100 metres...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s Tashana Godfrey has had an excellent season in the Girls’ Class 3 80-metre hurdles, proving to be a cut above her peers. Dominant performances at various development meets have solidified her position as the one to beat in...
IT HAS been a special season so far for the Convent of Mercy Academy’s (Alpha) belles at the various meets leading up to the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). But their young team wants it to be even more special...
AFTER HIS impressive performance at the Carifta Trials at G. C. Foster College — where he clocked a personal best of 13.06 seconds, improving massively on his previous best of 13.42 to win Under-20 110m hurdles — Kingston College’s Daniel Clarke...
Seventeen Jamaicans, led by Paris Olympic Games finalists, sprinter Oblique Seville and hurdler Hansle Parchment, will be on show at the inaugural Michael Johnson Grand Slam Track series which kicks off April 4-6 at the National Stadium. “We’re...
IT HAS been a great season for Foga Road High Class 3 female athlete Shameika McLean. She gave early warning of her potential at the Foga Road High Over Distance Meet last December, where she stunned some of Edwin Allen High’s best to capture the...
FOGA ROAD High School’s girls’ track and field team has never scored a point at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), but that is about to change. The Clarendon-based team looks set to finally get off the mark...
ST JAGO High’s Class Three star Jevaney Findlay and Edwin Allen High’s Class One sprint hurdler Santae Wilson were the outstanding high school athletes at last Saturday’s G. C. Foster College Classic. Findlay clocked a very good 21.86 seconds to...
OLYMPIAN ACKEEM Blake continued his preparation for this month’s World Indoor Athletics Championships with another strong performance in the 200 metres at Saturday’s G. C. Foster Classics in St Catherine. In an impressive display, Blake,...
Sprint hurdlers will be in the spotlight today as athletes clash for the final time before the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Top girls’ teams, including Edwin Allen High, Holmwood Technical, Hydel High and St...
AFTER FINISHING fifth in the class 2 110-metre hurdles and seventh in the 400-metre hurdles for St George’s College at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships last year, Fransico Williams hopes to earn more solid points for...
