TAJAY GAYLE and Ackeem Blake registered surprise victories on yesterday’s opening day of the two-day Allianz Memorial Van Damme Wanda Diamond League finals in Brussels, Belgium. Gayle, a 28-year-old long jumper who has been dogged by injuries...
OLYMPIC GAMES silver medallists Shanieka Ricketts and Wayne Pinnock are two of 10 Jamaicans going for glory on today’s opening day of the two-day Allianz Memorial Van Damme Wanda Diamond League finals in Brussels. With a Diamond Trophy and...
A RECORD number of jamaicans will be in action this Friday and Saturday at the King Boudouin Stadium in Brussells, home of the Allianz Memorial Van Damme – the 15th and final stop of the Wanda Diamond League. Thirty-two Diamond League champions...
SPRINTER ACKEEM Blake warmed up for this weekend’s Brussels Diamond League final with a convincing win in the men’s 100 metres at yesterday’s Gala dei Castelli World Athletics Continental Tour silver meet in Switzerland. Despite a slow start,...
National record holder Ackera Nugent maintained her good form in Europe at the weekend with a win in the women’s 100 metres hurdles at a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in Zagreb, Croatia. Competing at the Sport Park Miadest...
Shiann Salmon led the way with a personal best (PB) 52.97 seconds win in the 400 metres hurdles as Jamaica picked up three victories at yesterday’s Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland. Roshawn Clarke (400m hurdles) and Wayne...
Olympic Games 100 metres finalist Tia Clayton heads 14 Jamaicans listed for the 14th Weltklasse Zurich League on Thursday in Switzerland. Clayton had her first Diamond League win at the Silesia meeting a week ago where she was involved in a close...
JAMAICA PICKED up two medals on yesterday’s penultimate day of competition at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, as defending champion, Kerrica Hill, retained her title, winning the women’s 100-metre hurdles, and Shanoya Douglas...
Jamaica’s Kerrica Hill, the defending champion in the women’s 100 metres hurdles, displayed impressive form at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, yesterday and appears set to add another gold medal to the country’s tally today. Hill...
WHEN Alana Reid captured the 100 metres at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, Jamaica joined the United States on top of the ladder with six women’s titles. Jamaica’s first women’s 100m title came at the 1992...
JAMAICA TOOK two days to get off the mark at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru yesterday, but when they did, they did it in style. Alana Reid led a Caribbean sweep of the women’s 100 metres, clocking 11.17 seconds to get the better of...
FOLLOWING HER spectacular performance on Sunday in Poland, sprint hurdler Ackera Nugent will renew rivalry with the United States’ Masai Russell on Friday at the Wanda Diamond League Golden Gala in Italy, Rome, where 11 Jamaicans are down to...
ON A chilly opening day the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, yesterday, Jamaican athletes found the going tough, though Alana Reid, Deandre Daley, and Gary Card are in the finals of the women’s and men’s 100 metres. Reid, the number-one...
TODAY AND for the next four days, Jamaica’s top junior athletes will be seeking glory at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru. After a sub-par performance from the senior athletes at the recent Paris Olympic Games, the country’s young...
Rising sprint hurdles star Ackera Nugent was the top Jamaican performer at yesterday’s Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Wanda Diamond League meet in Poland. Nugent won the 100 metres hurdles in a meet record 12.29 seconds in one of three wins...
Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell will be seeking to score back-to-back wins over American Grant Holloway when the two top sprint hurdlers clash in tomorrow’s Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Diamond League meet in Poland. On Thursday Broadbell, the...
Rasheed Broadbell produced a brilliant burst of speed after the final barrier to upstage Olympic Games champion Grant Holloway of the United States in the 110-metre hurdles event at the Lausanne Wanda Diamond League meet yesterday. Lausanne has...
A BREAKOUT season for Shanoya Douglas in the 200 metres this season culminates at the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, next week. Should Muschett High School athlete’s season end with a win in the half-lap event, it would mean that the...
JAMAICA’S GARY Card and Deandre Daley have the biggest chance of winning a World Under-20 Championships 100 metres title for the island since Dexter Lee defended his title 14 years ago. The World Under-20 Championships begin in Lima, Peru, in a...
WHEN RELAY action gets underway next week at the World Under-20 Championships in Peru, Jamaica’s female team will be seeking to make it three wins in a row following success in Nairobi and Colombia. On both occasions, the Jamaican girls produced...
Jamaica will be seeking to pocket back-to-back global titles in the discus when the five-day World Under-20 Championships gets under way on August 27 in Peru. Jamaica will be among 134 nations at the championships which has attracted more than 1,...
Paris Olympic Games representative Alana Reid and Wolmer’s Boys’ sprinter Gary Card have been named by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) in a squad of 43 athletes for the World Under 20 Championships in Lima, Peru,...
FORMER ST Elizabeth Technical High School quarter-miler, Dennis Blake, made the first of two Olympic Games appearances for his country in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, and four years later in Atlanta. The 53-year-old spoke about the highs and lows of...
JAMAICA’S ATHLETES have had good results over the years at the Olympic Games in track events, especially in the sprints. However, it has not been the same in field events as since the country’s first participation at the Games in 1948 only James...
AFTER A brilliant run for gold in the 400 metres at the inaugural staging of the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in 1983, Jamaica’s Bertland Cameron was the hot favourite to win the event the following year at the Los Angeles...
