IMMACULATE CONCEPTION High School created the first shock of the season in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball competition, surprising defending under-16 champions The Queen’s School 18-12 in their Zone A encounter on Friday. After winning their...
LAST YEAR’s beaten senior finalists in the Urban ISSA Schoolgirl netball competition, Gaynstead High, were off to a fast start at home on Friday in their opening Zone D encounter against Tivoli Gardens, enjoying 70-2 win. The match, which was...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL and Manchester high schools stole the spotlight at Friday’s ISSA Rural netball rally played at Manchester High’s netball court. Playing at home, the Simone Smith girls came out on top among under-16 teams with a 6-1 win over...
JAMAICAN ATHLETES failed to replicate the performances of Friday’s opening day of the Allanz Memorial Van Damme Wanda Diamond League final when Tajay Gayle and Ackeem Blake had wins. Ackera Nugent, Shiann Salmon, and Rajindra Campbell came closest...
JAMAICA’S YOUNG sprinters ended a difficult World Under-20 Championships on a high yesterday, sweeping the 4x100-metre relays in fine style. The island ended with five medals, four gold and one bronze, to finish fourth overall. The United States...
OLYMPIC LONG jump silver medallist Wayne Pinnock will get his first chance at fulfilling his vow to get the better of Greece champion Miltiádis Tentóglou as early as Thursday, just a few weeks after Paris. Pinnock will be one of 15 Jamaicans in...
JAMAICA’S HISTORY at the Olympic Games includes 88 medals. President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, Garth Gayle, would love nothing more than to get to that magical figure of 100, however, predictions suggest that he may have...
APPEARING IN her first race as a professional, Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce was on fire yesterday at the London Diamond League with a breathtaking performance in the women’s 400 metres. In what was the last meet before the Olympic Games, she showed...
ONE-HUNDRED-METRE HURDLES national champion and record holder Ackera Nugent isn’t just fast over the hurdles. She is fast. Nugent, who holds the national record of 12.28 seconds, clocked a nippy 11.17 seconds for second in the women’s 100 metres...
FOLLOWING WINS at the JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships, high jumper Lamara Distin and 400-metre hurdler Malik James-King step up their preparation for the Olympic Games with both down to compete at the Meeting De Paris Wanda...
SHANIEKA RICKETTS retained her title in the women’s triple jump on yesterday’s third and penultimate day of competition at the JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships inside the National Stadium. Ricketts, who jumped out to 14.50 metres...
“THE TEAM in the Bahamas is the best that made themselves available to run and so we await the results,” said president of the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association, Garth Gayle, when asked about the make-up and chances of Jamaica’s team...
SOUTH AFRICA’S Shaun Maswanganyi is heaping praises on American, Carl Lewis, for his massive improvement over the 100 and 200 metres in the past three years. The 23 year-old Maswanganyi, a semi-finalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in both the 100...
AN EXPECTED mega Women’s 100 metres clash at yesterday’s Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon, between Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah of Jamaica and world champion Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States turned into a mismatch with the latter...
FOLLOWING THE retirement of 400-metre specialist Akeem Bloomfield, two other senior representatives in Nathon Allen and Rasheed Dwyer have also called time on their careers. The 35-year-old Dwyer, 2011 World Student Games and 2014 Commonwealth...
NATIONAL 400-METRE record holder, and a man who has started this season impressively in Julian Forte, are both out of today’s Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco. The withdrawals still leave nine Jamaicans among those down to compete with the...
WHEN LOCAL high-school athletes competed at the third staging of the PUMA EAST Coast International Showcase in Maryland, USA, recently, it signalled the final competition of the season where they would represent their institutions. Competitions...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: COMPETING IN very cold and chilly conditions, St Jago’s Brianna Campbell and the Excelsior duo of Richard Hall and Rajawn Davis enjoyed big wins for Jamaican athletes at yesterday’s third staging of the Puma East Coast...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: EXCELSIOR, KINGSTON College (KC), and Jamaica College (JC) shared the spotlight on yesterday’s final day of the 128th staging of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, after winning one event each. Excelsior scored the first...
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: HYDEL HIGH School captain, Alliah Baker, was the star over the weekend at the Penn Relays in Pennsylvania after leading from the front to bring her team double success after winning the High School Girl’s Championships...
SPRINT HURDLERS Danielle Williams and Hansle Parchment bagged third-place finishes at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League in Suzhou, China. Williams, the world champion in the women’s 100-metre hurdles, clocked 12.74 seconds to finish behind Puerto...
WORLD INDOOR 60-metre bronze medallist, Ackeem Blake, had the best finish of the nine Jamaicans competing at yesterday’s opening Diamond League meet in Xiamen, China, after finishing third in the men’s 100 metres. Blake was third in the 100 metres...
THE COUNTRY’S top high-school athletes hope to continue their impressive form this season at the fast-becoming-popular East Coast Showcase where they will battle with their United States, Haitian, Belizean, Caymanian, and Canadian counterparts. The...
JAMAICA’S ATHLETES found the going tough at yesterday’s Miramar Invitational Meet at the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida, with sprint hurdler Tyler Mason scoring the only win from the island in the men’s 110-metre hurdles. Mason, an alternate in...
