OLYMPIC GAMES 100-metre hurdles finalist Britany Anderson continued her excellent indoor form this season when she won the World Athletics Silver Tour women’s 60-metre hurdles in Louisville this weekend, in a personal best 7.82 seconds. The 21-year...
Edwin Allen High’s girls’ head coach, Michael Dyke, is oozing confidence after his team produced a dominant performance at last Saturday’s Western Relays. The inter-secondary champions had a perfect record, winning all seven relays, and Dyke is...
EDWIN Allen High School’s Class One athlete, Bryan Levell, stole the spotlight at last Saturday’s 17th staging of the Camperdown Classics inside the National Stadium. Running against a 1.5 metres per second headwind, Levell clocked a solid 10....
THE 2022 local track and field season will step up a notch tomorrow with three meets. The National Stadium will host the Camperdown Classics, the King of the Road Throws will be held at Excelsior High School, while the Milo Western Relays is on at...
JAMAICAN athletes, led by wins from Natoya Goule and Danielle Williams, produced a number of impressive performances at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, the third leg of the World Indoor Tour Gold meets in New York yesterday. Briana Williams,...
THE 2022 local track and field continues today with the staging of the JAAA/Puma Fuller-Anderson Development Meet at G.C. Foster College in Spanish Town. Events start at 8:30 a.m. The meet, which is back after a year’s absence because of the COVID...
AFTER copping the World Athletics Female Sports Award last year, Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Elaine Thompson Herah is up for another major award. She is one of three track and field athletes nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award,...
JUST AROUND two hours of real speed is expected to be on show this Friday at the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, as the inaugural staging of the Ondirun/GC Foster Sprintfest track meet will be held at the institution track,...
THE JAMAICA Rugby League’s national programme has been given the green light from the Government to resume, following an absence of nearly two years. This latest news has pleased Romeo Monteith, Jamaica’s Reggae Warriors head coach. “It is indeed a...
SEVEN Jamaicans, headed by 2016 Olympic Games and 2017 World Championships 110m hurdles champion Omar McLeod, will descend on New York today for the 114th Millrose Games scheduled to take place at the New Balance Track and Field Centre. With...
WHILE FANS eagerly await the clash of the two fastest women in the world over the 100 metres at the senior level in the Jamaican duo of Elaine Thompson Herah, the Olympic champion with a best of 10.54 seconds, and Shelly-ann Fraser Pryce, the World...
AFTER A year's absence due to the COVID pandemic, the most popular and longest-running relay carnival in the country will be back with a new format. The 45th renewal of the Gibson McCook Relays is set to take place on February 26, the final...
Technical leader of Jamaica’s senior track and field programme Maurice Wilson says 2022 will be an extra special year in track and field for Jamaica. Wilson expects a number of top-level performances, especially from the country’s female athletes...
Local track and field action is expected to resume tomorrow at three venues after last weekend’s meets were postponed. The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association has sought a permit from the Government, through the Ministry of Sport and...
Local athletes who performed well at last Saturday’s successful Purewater/R. Danny Williams track and field meet at Jamaica College will not get a chance to continue their good form this weekend, as today’s four scheduled track and field meets have...
Hydel High’s girls showed good early form at the 28th staging of the Purewater/R. Danny Williams Invitational meet at the Ashenheim Stadium on the campus of Jamaica College last Saturday. With defending ISSA Girls’ Championships Edwin Allen High...
A busy 2022 track and field season for juniors starts today with the staging of the Purewater/R. Danny Williams Invitational meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College (JC). The country’s junior athletes will be involved in two major meets...
AFTER A fabulous year in female sprinting at the global level last year where Jamaican athletes dominated the 100 metres through Elaine Thompson Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, who swept the medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games,...
WHEN THE 2022 track and field season gets under way in January, there will be an added motivation for PUMA-sponsored athletes both locally and overseas after the shoe company appointed former Jamaica College and St Andrew Technical past student,...
WHEN IT rains, it pours, and it has certainly been pouring for Elaine Thompson Herah, Olympic Games double sprint champion and the fastest woman alive over both the 100 and 200 metres with her 10.54 and 21.53 clockings. Since her outstanding feat...
OMAR MCLEOD, 2016 Olympic Games men’s 110 metres hurdles champion, and Tokyo World Championships women’s 800 metres finalist, Natoya Goule, are down to compete at the 114th Millrose Games at the Armory New Balance Track and Field...
AFTER a year’s absence, the Wesley Powell Heart Institute Track and Field meet will return today with its 18th staging on the grounds of Excelsior High School on Mountain View Avenue. The meet, which features irregular distance events on the track...
AFTER ADVANCING from the first round of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/daCosta Cup football competition for the first time since 2014, head coach of the Edwin Allen High School team, Tafari Burton, is hailing the girls’...
Edwin Allen High School head coach Michael Dyke says he is looking forward to a successful junior athletics season next year, despite starting preparation six weeks later than usual. The school won the last staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and...
Yesterday marked the first day after Elaine Thompson Herah’s World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year accomplishment. Thompson Herah became the third Jamaican woman to have achieved the feat, following in the footsteps of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce...
