A WEEK before the JAAA National Junior and Senior Championships, big performances from the country’s record-breaking under-20 athletes at the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, were expected, and the athletes, making their way in the...
WHILE SENIOR athletes got most of the spotlight at last weekend’s JAAA National Junior and Senior Athletics Championships, there were several outstanding performances by the country’s juniors, especially in the hurdle events. Both the under-18 and...
MEGAN Tapper and Orlando Bennett stole the spotlight on yesterday’s final day of competition at the 2025 JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium. Olympic bronze medallist Tapper of Elite Performance Track Club, who...
EDWIN Allen High’s Monique Stewart gave herself a big morale booster going into her collegiate career on Saturday. The 20-year-old who was plagued with injury earlier in the season, disrupting her ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
FANS INSIDE the National Stadium were treated to a spectacle at the JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships last night with fireworks in the women’s and men’s 100 metres finals. Tina Clayton was crowned the new national women’s champion,...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle remains optimistic ahead of today’s National Junior and Senior Championships, despite recent news surrounding the expected migration of four of the country’s top field...
THREE YEARS ago in Cali, Colombia, a special performance from Jamaica’s young athletes at the World Under-20 Championships helped them to 16 medals, the most of the tournament. The total was better than the powerful United States, who reaped 15...
ONE OF the ‘hottest’ Jamaicans on the track this season is sprint hurdler Ackera Nugent, with standout performances at the Grand Slam Track Series and the Diamond League. This weekend at the National Senior Championships, she will be looking to...
FOR the past three years, Rasheed Broadbell, Hansle Parchment, and Orlando Bennett have dominated the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the JAAA National Championships, occupying the top three spots. In 2022, Parchment came out on top ahead of Broadbell...
THE 40th staging of the JTA/Sagicor National Athletics Championships had a nail-biting finish at the National Stadium on Saturday. In a very close contest for top honours 2017 champions St Catherine edged 2018 winners St Andrew by 1.83 points. In...
JORDAN SCOTT continued his impressive form in the men’s triple jump this season with back-to-back Diamond League success at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League meet in Paris. Following his win in Oslo a week ago, he produced 17.27 metres to win the...
AT 20 years old, Roshawn Clarke is Jamaica’s best 400 metres hurdler and, at next week’s JAAA National Senior Championships, the World under-20 record holder will be aiming for his second national senior title. Clarke, who celebrates his 21st...
IT WILL be interesting to see which eight athletes line up for the men’s 400m final at next week’s National Senior Championships, as it has been a struggle this season for the country’s male quarter-milers. After a surprise win at the Budapest...
THE UNITED STATES’ Grace Stark had to produce a meet record in Stockholm yesterday to get the better of Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent, who finished second in the 100-metre hurdles, clocking 12.37 seconds at the seventh stop of the Wanda Diamond League....
FORMER CLARENDON College quarter-miler, Dejanea Oakley, was at her best on Saturday — the final day of competition for women — at the NCAA Division One Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, posting a lifetime best 49.65...
ATHLETES GOT a final opportunity over the weekend to prepare for next week’s National Championships, as a large number turned up inside the National Stadium for the third All Comers JAAA Last Chance Meet, where there were some decent results. World...
FORMER St Elizabeth Technical High School female sprint hurdler Habibah Harris was the top Jamaican qualifier for today’s finals of the Women’s NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships, following semifinal action on Thursday at Hayward...
AT THE recent World Relays in China, veteran Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time World Champion over the 100m – said Jamaica’s female sprinting is in good hands. One of the athletes intent on being part of that...
OLYMPIC GAMES triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts will be hunting for her third Diamond League win in the event this season when she competes at today’s sixth leg of the series, the Bislett Games in Oslo. The leader in the women’s event...
FOLLOWING THE East and West qualifying quarterfinal rounds two weeks ago, the NCAA Division One Track and Field Championships will climax this week at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, with semifinals and finals. Both males and females will compete...
HIGH JUMPER Lamara Distin and Omar McLeod were the best-placed Jamaicans at yesterday’s FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands, a World Athletics Continental Gold meet, finishing second in their respective events. Roje Stona also delivered a strong...
EDWIN ALLEN’S Dashanelle Clarke and Kingston College’s Daquan Dawkins ruled supreme at the JAAA Age Group Multi-Events Trial at Jamaica College yesterday, topping their counterparts in the 13-14 age group. The two-day trial, which ended yesterday,...
Jamaicans Shanieka Ricketts and Andrenette Knight registered wins at yesterday’s Rome Diamond League meeting in Italy. Ricketts earned her second Diamond League victory of the season in the women’s triple jump, while Knight secured her first-ever...
IT WILL be a busy day for Jamaican athletes on the fifth stop in the Wanda Diamond League in Rome tomorrow where 10 are down to compete. Leading the way will be Olympic Games women’s triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts, who will contest...
FOLLOWING THE conclusion of last weekend’s NCAA Division One Track and Field East and West preliminaries, many Jamaican athletes booked tickets to the NCAA Championships, scheduled to take place at Hayward Field in Eugene from June 11–14. The most...
