DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Garvey Maceo were off to a positive start in their opening game in Group 7 of the Round of 32 in the ISSA daCosta Cup football competition after a comfortable 3-0 home win over Old Harbour High School. In what was a lacklustre...
Teams from Clarendon have dominated rural schoolboy football for the past four seasons and two of the top contenders, defending daCosta Cup champions Garvey Maceo High and preseason favourites Glenmuir High, will be at home today as the round of 32...
IT WILL be a new environment for 18-year-old Shanoya Douglas when the upcoming track and field season gets under way, but the talented sprinter is confident the results will be just as good — or even better. Douglas, who represented Muschett High...
WHEN THE final set of playoff matches in Zone I of the daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition kicks off today, surprise team Kemps Hill will be eyeing a third straight win when they host Denbigh High at 3:30 p.m. After shocking unbeaten zone...
WHEN THE 2025-26 high school track and field season gets under way, there will be a major coaching shake-up in the west. Garth Smythe, who has led the Muschett High School programme since 2020, has decided to take on a new challenge as head coach...
WHEN the final set of play-off matches in Zone I of the daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition kicks off tomorrow, surprise team Kemps Hill High will be eyeing a third straight win. They will host Denbigh High at 3:30 p.m. After ambushing the...
Following their giant-killing performance at home two days ago, when they stunned Glenmuir High 1-0 in Zone I action of the daCosta Cup, Kemps Hill will be hoping for a repeat today. They host defending champions Garvey Maceo High in the...
Defending champions Garvey Maceo High and former winners Glenmuir High will clash in a top-of-the-table Zone ‘I’ first-round daCosta Cup football match today at Garvey Maceo, starting at 3:30 p.m. Both teams are locked on 18 points from six wins...
LOCAL-BASED ATHLETES dominated Jamaica’s medal count at the recent World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, where the country secured nine medals on the track and one in the field. Of the 10 medals, eight came from individual events and two from...
OVER THE years at senior global track and field competitions, Jamaica’s richest harvest of medals has traditionally come on the track. However, at last year’s Olympic Games in Paris, the field athletes carried the seemingly sagging Jamaican...
AFTER PICKING up their first win in the women’s 4x100m relay at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo with the quartet of Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, and Merlene Ottey, Jamaica will be aiming for their second success on...
What is seen as the “Group of Death” in the rural schoolboys daCosta Cup competition will serve up a treat today with a fiery Group I doubleheader at Glenmuir High School. In the opener at 1:30 p.m., defending champions Garvey Maceo High face Vere...
After silver medals in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, Jamaica’s women’s 4x100 metres relay team is hungry to return to the top at this year’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Their last golden run came in Doha 2019, and now the stakes couldn...
THERE SHOULD be fireworks in the men’s 4x100-metre relay in Tokyo as the two most successful nations in the event at the World Championships, the United States and Jamaica, prepare to scorch the track in what promises to be a memorable clash. The...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s World Under-21 netball team, Annett Daley, is upbeat about the squad’s chances at this year’s World Cup tournament set for Gibraltar from September 19-28. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday on the eve of the team’s...
IT IS expected to be another blockbuster showdown in the men’s 200 metres, with the three medallists from last year’s Olympic Games set to clash once again. Leading the charge is Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the gold medallist, alongside America’s...
DEFENDING CHAMPION Shericka Jackson will be looking to spoil the party for St Lucia’s Julien Alfred and the United States’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden when the women’s 200 metres takes centre stage in Tokyo. Jackson, the second-fastest woman ever...
Track and field fans will not have to wait long for the most anticipated clash at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. The men’s 100 metres final is set for Sunday’s second day at 8:20 a.m. Jamaica time. For some, it’s a Jamaica...
When the preliminary round of the World Athletics Championships women’s 100 metres gets under way next Saturday in Tokyo, the million-dollar question will be: Can anyone come between the USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and St Lucia’s Julien Alfred?...
ONE event that will definitely have fans on the edge of their seats at this month’s World Athletics Championships is the women’s 100-metre hurdles. This is without a doubt the most competitive event on the schedule and predicting the medal winners...
ONE OF the events that will draw huge attention at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo is the men’s 400-metre hurdles. It will be a grand showdown between Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the world record holder with 45.94, Rai Benjamin of the...
SHANIEKA RICKETTS remains the most consistent Jamaican female in field events at the global level. She won silver in the triple jump at the Doha World Championships in 2019, Eugene in 2022, and at last year’s Olympic Games in Paris. Ricketts, the...
WITH BRONZE medals in the women’s 400-metre hurdles at the 2019 Championships in Doha and in Budapest two years ago, Rushell Clayton will be hoping for another top-three finish when she competes at next week’s World Championships in Tokyo. She will...
JAMAICA ARE set to make history at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, next week. When the preliminary round of the men’s 400 metres gets under way on September 14, the second day of competition, it will mark the first time the...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, has described the team selected for the September 13-21 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan as “well-balanced”. “This team has youth and experience. It’s...
