THE final set of matches in the second round of the urban Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) schoolgirls netball competition will be played today at the Leila Robinson Courts, and with the semi-finals to be played next week Wednesday...
St Catherine High School's netballers sent out a strong signal to their rivals on Friday in the second set of urban of matches in the ISSA Schoolgirls Netball Competition at the Leila Robinson Courts as the Phyllis Thompson-coached teams had double...
Gaynstead High's netball teams have sent out early warnings to their rivals in the ISSA urban area schoolgirls netball competition after impressive wins in their opening junior and senior matches.The defending junior champions rattled up a big 54-1...
A strong Americas track and field squad, with several Jamaican stars in the line-up, will be looking to dethrone defending champions Europe when the two-day IAAF Continental Cup gets under way in Ostrava, Czech Republic.The Continental Cup, formerly...
Several stars of the 2018 Diamond League series will be on show tomorrow and Friday in Zurich and Brussels, respectively.After 12 different stops, 32 champions will be crowned in individual events with the winners set to walk away with Diamond...
Playing at home and with a record crowd of over 13,700 fans, a victory was expected for West Coast Fever, the team of Jamaica senior netball team captain Jhaniele Fowler-Reid, playing in the Suncorp Super Netball final in Perth, Australia. But this...
TRACK and field fans can expect some superb performances today as the 12th staging in the Diamond League series takes place in Birmingham, England.This is the final meet before the grand finals scheduled for Zurich and Brussels and it will be the...
After creating history and becoming the first Jamaican to run faster than 44 seconds in the 400m and 20 seconds in the 200m, it is perhaps to be expected that Akeem Bloomfield would draw comparisons to another towering Jamaican, Usain Bolt.Bolt did...
Jamaica ended its sojourn at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships on a high as Calabar High School's Kai Chang, with gold in the men's discus; Britany Anderson, with silver in the women's 100m hurdles; and the women's 4x400m relay team with bronze...
Jamaica had a golden day at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, yesterday.Briana Williams, 16, captured the women's 100 metres event while Damion Thomas gave the country its first-ever win in the men's 110 metres hurdles as he...
There were no wins at yesterday's Lausanne Diamond League in Switzerland for Jamaican athletes, but there were second-place finishes for Janieve Russell, who posted a big personal best, and Elaine Thompson, and a third-place finish for Shericka...
Jamaican athletes had two wins at yesterday's Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Hungary, as Janieve Russell and Fedrick Dacres captured their events. However, there was disappointment for World and Olympic Games 110m hurdles champion, Omar McLeod, who...
Eleven Jamaicans, led by top discus thrower Fedrick Dacres, will be in action at today's seventh stage of the lucrative Diamond League series in Paris.Dacres who won at the Stockholm meet with a season's best 69.57 metres, will be hoping for another...
Calabar High's Christopher Taylor and overseas-based Briana Williams will lead a 42-member team, 22 males and 20 females, to the IAAF World Under-20 Championships, which will be held in Tampere, Finland, July 10-15.Taylor, who won the senior 400m...
Four hundred metre sprinter Akeem Bloomfield, formerly of Kingston College, has decided to go professional after signing with sporting brand Puma International. Bloomfield had what many described as a fantastic collegiate season, which ended with a...
Schoolboy Christopher Taylor upstaged his more senior athletes by taking home the Men's 400m title in 44.86 seconds, on the final day of the JAAA Supreme Ventures Limited National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium yesterday....
The spotlight will be on the men's 400 metres semi-finals on today's penultimate day of competition at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures Limited National Junior and Senior Championships inside the National Stadium.One of the athletes down to contest the...
A new champion will be crowned in the men's 400m race this Sunday at the JAAA National Senior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium as defending champion Nathan Allen will not be competing.Allen and his University of Auburn teammate Akeem...
The country's top local senior and junior athletes warmed up for this weekend's JAAA National Athletics Championships after creditable performances during the fifth All Comers Meet at the National Stadium on Saturday.Former Commonwealth Games 100m...
Jamaica's top two 400 metres runners, the University of Auburn's Nathon Allen and Akeem Bloomfield, will be two of six Jamaicans in action today when the four-day National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Track and Field...
Following an average performance a week earlier in the men's 100m at the third JAAA All Comers Meet, former Commonwealth Games 100m champion Kemar Bailey-Cole showed remarkable improvement in the event to top the field on Saturday at the fourth All...
FEDRICK Dacres' excellent form in the discus continued yesterday at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Diamond League meet in Rome.Dacres defeated a quality field with a throw of 68.51 metres. Among those he beat was Andrius Gudzius of Lithuania, the...
Shericka Jackson will be gunning for a win today in the women's 200 metres in a bid to take the lead in the points standings as the fourth leg of the Diamond League (DL) series gets under way with the Rome Golden Gala.Jackson is one of seven...
IT was smooth sailing for Jamaica's collegiate athletes on the opening day of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) East Championships in Tampa, Florida, yesterday.The top athletes all advanced to today's quarter-final round, where the...
Following his outstanding achievement on Sunday's final day of competition of the South Eastern Conference (SEC) Outdoor Championships on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the University of Auburn sophomore, Nathon Allen, who...
