Hydel High’s girls showed good early form at the 28th staging of the Purewater/R. Danny Williams Invitational meet at the Ashenheim Stadium on the campus of Jamaica College last Saturday. With defending ISSA Girls’ Championships Edwin Allen High...
A busy 2022 track and field season for juniors starts today with the staging of the Purewater/R. Danny Williams Invitational meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College (JC). The country’s junior athletes will be involved in two major meets...
AFTER A fabulous year in female sprinting at the global level last year where Jamaican athletes dominated the 100 metres through Elaine Thompson Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, who swept the medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games,...
WHEN THE 2022 track and field season gets under way in January, there will be an added motivation for PUMA-sponsored athletes both locally and overseas after the shoe company appointed former Jamaica College and St Andrew Technical past student,...
WHEN IT rains, it pours, and it has certainly been pouring for Elaine Thompson Herah, Olympic Games double sprint champion and the fastest woman alive over both the 100 and 200 metres with her 10.54 and 21.53 clockings. Since her outstanding feat...
OMAR MCLEOD, 2016 Olympic Games men’s 110 metres hurdles champion, and Tokyo World Championships women’s 800 metres finalist, Natoya Goule, are down to compete at the 114th Millrose Games at the Armory New Balance Track and Field...
AFTER a year’s absence, the Wesley Powell Heart Institute Track and Field meet will return today with its 18th staging on the grounds of Excelsior High School on Mountain View Avenue. The meet, which features irregular distance events on the track...
AFTER ADVANCING from the first round of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/daCosta Cup football competition for the first time since 2014, head coach of the Edwin Allen High School team, Tafari Burton, is hailing the girls’...
Edwin Allen High School head coach Michael Dyke says he is looking forward to a successful junior athletics season next year, despite starting preparation six weeks later than usual. The school won the last staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and...
Yesterday marked the first day after Elaine Thompson Herah’s World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year accomplishment. Thompson Herah became the third Jamaican woman to have achieved the feat, following in the footsteps of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce...
Tokyo 2020 100m metres silver medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued her impressive form in the event, after clocking a new meet record of 10.78 seconds to win at the Gala Dei Castelli meet in Switzerland yesterday, as she brought the curtain...
Olympic 100m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson will renew her 200m rivalry with Namibia’s Olympic 200m silver medallist Christine Mboma when they meet at the Boris Hanžeković Memorial, a World Athletics Tour meet, in Zagreb, Croatia, today. The...
ALL EYES will be on Elaine Thompson-Herah again as the world’s fastest woman is down to compete tomorrow at the ninth staging of the Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 10 Jamaicans are scheduled to appear. Undoubtedly, Thompson-Herah...
Michael Dyke, the man charged with relay duties for Jamaica’s 4x100 metres women’s team at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, said he had no doubt that the islanders would have “destroyed” the world record in the event....
JAMAICA’S JUNIOR athletes saved their best performance for yesterday’s final day of competition at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, finishing with a flurry of medals - seven in total - including a world record in the...
Tina Clayton maintained Jamaica’s dominance of Women’s 100m sprinting by taking the World Athletics Under-20 crown in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. The Edwin Allen High School star, who turned 17 on Tuesday, clocked a personal best of 11.09 seconds,...
Jamaica’s junior athletes found the going tough during Day One of the World Athletics U-20 Championships at the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. Many of them failed to advance to the next round of their events although Tina Clayton...
FORMER EXCELSIOR High School female hurdles stand-out, Ackera Nugent, shared some insight into her decision to chart her career in the fast lane of track and field. Nugent, one of five athletes who spoke at a press conference on the eve of the...
JAMAICA’S JUNIOR athletes will begin their hunt for glory at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships as day-one action gets under way inside the Kassarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, tomorrow at 1 a.m. (Jamaica time). After a one-year delay due...
National track and field coach Michael Dyke says that Jamaica’s junior athletes are now trying to acclimatise to Nairobi, Kenya, ahead of the World Athletics Under-20 Championships. The five-day meet, originally set for six, starts on Wednesday,...
AT THE recent Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, Jamaica’s females dominated the 100 metres as they swept the medals, with Elaine Thompson-Herah winning gold, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, silver and Shericka Jackson, bronze. When Thompson-Herah won the...
SPRINT HURDLER Ackera Nugent and Ralford Mullings are Jamaica’s leading medal hopefuls on a 41-member team named by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) to represent the country at World Athletics Under-20 Championships to be...
With track and field action now under way at the Tokyo Olympics, several local pundits are predicting a big medal haul for Jamaica’s athletes, with some hoping for an overall double-digit booty to rival the 11 garnered in Beijing in 2008 and Rio in...
Jamaica’s men will be hoping to emulate their performance of five years ago at the Rio Olympic Games when sprint legend Usain Bolt, with two gold, helped to reel in five overall. Omar McLeod, the 110m hurdler, also won gold, while there was silver...
In any major sporting championships there are marquee clashes for which fans eagerly anticipate a gigantic battle. In track and field at the Tokyo Olympics, the women’s 200 metres is that event that will take centre stage. A month ago, it was the...
