Published:Friday | July 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA'S team to the World University Netball Championships in Florida stayed on course for a spot in tomorrow's final after blowing away home team the United States 98-9 in quarter-final action yesterday on the campus of St Thomas University in...
Published:Wednesday | July 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
FOLLOWING a very successful six-day training camp, which came to an end on Monday at the G. C. Foster College for Sports and Physical Education, the country's top junior athletes will depart the island in three batches today as they set their sights...
Published:Tuesday | July 12, 2016 | 6:57 PMRaymond Graham
NETBALLERS representing teams from local colleges and universities left the island on Monday and will be seeking glory at the second staging of the Federation Internationale du Sports (FISU) World University Netball Championships.Competition begins...
Published:Sunday | July 10, 2016 | 7:46 PMRaymond Graham
THE country's top young athletes will be seeking glory at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.Jamaica's athletes are scheduled to depart on Thursday for the championships, which gets under way next week Tuesday.It will be the...
Published:Saturday | July 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica's team to the IAAF World Junior Championships has suffered a big setback four days before the athletes depart for Bydgoszcz, Poland.National junior 400 metres record holder, Kingston College's Akeem Bloomfield, is out with an injury.Head...
Published:Thursday | July 7, 2016 | 5:17 PMRaymond Graham
DEFENDING 400 metres hurdles champion Jaheel Hyde heads the 40 athletes who will represent Jamaica at this year's IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from July 19-24.The team, which includes 22 males and 18 females, was released by...
Published:Sunday | July 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
World 100 metres hurdles women's gold medallist Danielle Williams crashed out of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)-Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships - which serves as the Olympic Games qualifying competition - at...
Published:Saturday | July 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
World Junior 400 metres hurdles champion Jaheel Hyde is still celebrating after he booked his ticket to next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics with a national junior record run on Friday night at the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA...
Published:Saturday | July 2, 2016 | 8:29 PMRaymond Graham
Natoya Goule made it back-to-back titles in winning the women's 800 metres final at the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA)-Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships at the National Stadium yesterday as she turned back former...
Published:Friday | July 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
ONLY two male athletes have ever represented Jamaica at the Olympics in the triple jump, with Lennox Burgher being the first after competing at the 1968 games in Mexico before Henry Jackson's appearance four years later in Munich.Many have tried to...
Published:Friday | July 1, 2016 | 10:01 PMRaymond Graham
Usain Bolt withdrew from the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships because of an hamstring injury and must prove his fitness before the JAAA names its team to the Rio Olympic Games, but Yohan Blake and Elaine Thompson thrilled in the...
Published:Thursday | June 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Former Kingston College athlete Clive Pullen stole the spotlight from the island's sprint mega stars on yesterday's opening day of the JAAA-Supreme Ventures Limited National Senior Championships at the National Stadium.Pullen won the men's triple...
Published:Sunday | June 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
One of the events that will attract a lot of attention at this weekend's Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA)-Supreme Ventures Limited National Senior Championships is the women's 400 metres. This will undoubtedly be one of the...
Published:Friday | June 24, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Veteran coach Danny Hawthorne pointed to abuse and a bitter relationship with sections of the St Jago past student body as reasons for his departure from the school, as he gets ready to take over the reigns at Wolmer's in September.Hawthorne, who...
Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 3:23 PMRaymond Graham
The women's 400 metres hurdles is expected to be one of the most competitive events at next weekend's Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Supreme Ventures Limited National Senior Championships.Janieve Russell has been the top...
Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
AFTER a successful debut at this year's Carifta Games where he won the gold medal in the boys' Under-18 110 metres hurdles, 16-year-old Damion Thomas, who competes for Northeast High School in Florida, is comfortable with his choice to represent...
Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 5:43 PMRaymond Graham
AFTER her unexpected victory at the World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Beijing last year, where she won the women's 100 metres hurdles, Danielle Williams will be hoping for more success at the Olympics this year.Before that, she will...
Published:Monday | June 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
THREE years ago, Tiffany James, then a student at Papine High School, picked up her first major medal in track and field while competing for Jamaica at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine, as she finished third in the girls' 400 metres...
Published:Sunday | June 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
AFTER A major disappointment on Saturday’s opening day of the Supreme Ventures LimitedJamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Junior Championships where he was disqualified in the preliminary round of the boys’...
Published:Saturday | June 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Raheem Chambers of St Jago High, and Edwin Allen High's Patrice Moody won the Under-20 boys' and girls' 100 metres, respectively, on the opening day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)-Supreme Ventures Limited National Junior...
Published:Friday | June 17, 2016 | 4:30 PMRaymond Graham
Action is expected to be fierce in the 100m and 400m hurdles, where several athletes who are ranked highly on the IAAF top list will be in action.Edwin Allen's Shannon Kallawan is expected to lead the way when the girls Under-20 400m hurdles final...
Published:Thursday | June 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Junior athletes will be in the spotlight this weekend at the JAAA Supreme Ventures National Championships tomorrow and Saturday at the National Stadium.The athletes will be seeking places on the national team to the IAAF World Junior Championships...
Published:Monday | June 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
ONE of the happiest persons on Saturday night after the first staging of the JN Racers Grand Prix track-and-field meet was Glen Mills.Head track and field coach and the man at the helm of the club which boasts the likes of Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake,...
Published:Sunday | June 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
USAIN Bolt expressed some amount of satisfaction with his performance after notching a season best 9.88 seconds to win the men's 100 metres at the first staging of the JN Racers Grand Prix at the National Stadium."I am extremely happy to have won...
Published:Sunday | June 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
WORLD and Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce showed that her form is good in winning the women's 100 metres at the Racers JN Grand Prix track and field meet at the National Stadium in Kingston on Saturday.After trailing at the back...
