A clash between 2023 World champion Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States and Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah over 100 metres will be one of the highlights of Thursday’s Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland....
THE INAUGURAL staging of the Blue Run 5K Road race will have, as its goal, aiding in the fight against prostate cancer. The event, set for Emancipation Park on September 17 at 6:30 a.m., is the brainchild of Running Events Jamaica. During the event...
No Jamaican athlete has ever won a medal in the women’s 800 metres at the World Athletics Championships, and next week in Budapest, Natoya Goule-Toppin will be hoping to make history in the event. When the first round of the event gets under way...
Calabar High’s Shaquane Gordon and Daniel Wright of Excelsior High were the top performers for Jamaica at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) which ended yesterday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica won four medals at...
ONE OF, if not the biggest upsets at last year’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, came in the Women’s 4x100 metres relay where the United States upstaged overwhelming favourites, Jamaica. Fast-forward one year and Jamaica will be aiming to...
SINCE THE retirement of Usain Bolt, the United States has dominated the men’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships, scoring wins at the last three stagings. Justin Gatlin started the wins for the Americans in 2017 in London, with...
FOUR YEARS AGO Jamaica had its best ever results in field events at the World Athletics Championships in Doha as athletes bagged one gold and three silver medals. Tajay Gayle led the way with gold in the men’s long jump while Fedrick Dacres in the...
JAMAICA PICKED up three medals on yesterday’s final day of competition at the Junior Pan Am Under-20 Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, to end the meet with 13 medals - one gold, nine silver and three bronze. The male and female 4x400...
AFTER JUST missing out on a top-three finish in the men’s 110 metres hurdles at the recent National Senior Championships, Tyler Mason continued his good form in the event at the weekend with a win in Switzerland. Competing at the sixth Citrus...
SEVERAL OF Jamaica’s top athletes, who have qualified for the Budapest World Athletics Championships, were in action on Friday night at the Ed Murphy Classics in Memphis, Tennessee. Antonio Watson, Roshawn Clarke, and Natalliah Whyte picked up wins...
WORLD UNDER 20 200-metre bronze medallist Alana Reid and 100-metre silver medallist Bouwahjgie Nkrumie lead Jamaica’s 37-member team – 23 men, 14 women – for the Junior Pan Am Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, from August 4-6. The group left...
THREE JAMAICAN ATHLETES, Jonielle Smith, Amoi Brown and Christoffe Bryan picked up wins at yesterday’s CAS International track and field meet in Schifflange, Luxembourg. Smith won the women’s 100 metres in 11.18 seconds to lead a sweep of the top...
THE JAMAICA team is back from the North America, Central America and Caribbean (NACAC) Under-18 and 23 Athletics Championships which was held over the past weekend in San Jose, Costa Rico, and manager of the team, Keith Wellington, is proud of the...
ARGUABLY THE best performance at the recent NACAC Under-18 and -23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica, from a Jamaican athlete came from Edwin Allen High School athlete Theianna Lee Terrelonge, who captured the under-18 girls’ sprint double....
Natoya Goule-Toppin has expressed her delight at clocking a season’s best in the women’s 800 metres at yesterday’s London Diamond League meet. With just over three weeks before the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships, several of the world...
EDWIN ALLEN HIGH School sprinter Theianna-Lee Terrelonge won the women’s under-18 200 metres to close out a sprint double on yesterday’s final day of competition at the North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC)...
WHILE SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce’s long-awaited and much-delayed 100-metre season debut has grabbed all the attention, there will be 22 other Jamaicans down to compete in Luzern, Switzerland, today. Along with Fraser-Pryce at the World Athletics Tour...
THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has named a squad of 66 under-23 athletes to represent the country at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) Championships to be held from July 21-23...
American sprint ace Sha’Carri Richardson produced her trademark strong finish to deny Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson in the women’s 100 metres at the Silesia Diamond League meet in Poland yesterday. The slow-starting Richardson found her top speed...
Rojay Hamilton is the new champion in the men's 800 metres after turning back the challenge of defending champion Navasky Anderson to win the event in one minute, 47.28 seconds this evening at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships...
Overseas-based Andrew Hudson was in fine form in the men's 200 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships tonight, easily outclassing his rivals to win the event in a personal best 20.11 seconds. Rasheed Dwyer of SprinTec was...
Like she did in the 100 metres, Shericka Jackson made it clear there was no doubt she was the best in the country, defending her JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships title with a world lead inside the National Stadium, no less....
In a stacked men's 110-metre hurdles field, Commonwealth Games champion Rasheed Broadbell produced a personal best and world leading 12.94 seconds to become Jamaica’s national champion. In what was a very competitive event at the JAAA/PUMA National...
Like she did in the 100 metres, Shericka Jackson made it clear there was no doubt she was the best in the country, defending her JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships title with a world lead inside the National Stadium, no less....
Enrique Webster of St Elizabeth Technical High School ran an intelligent race to peg back early leader, Jaheene Bell of St Jago High, registering a win the in the boys’ under-20 400 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships...
