World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce hit top form at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League in Doha as she powered to victory in the women’s 100 metres in a season’s best 10.84 seconds. On a good day for Jamaican athletes, there were second-place...
Local athletes preparing for next month’s National Senior Championships will get another chance to compete for cash incentives when the JOA/JAAA Olympic Destiny Series continues at the National Stadium. Action begins at 8:15 a.m. with the...
World Athletics Championships triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts will lead four Jamaicans down to compete at the second Wanda Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar, today. The expected women’s 100m clash between double Olympic champion...
Fresh from guiding his Edwin Allen team to their seventh consecutive and eight overall girls’ title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, head coach Michael Dyke is already warning his rivals that the Frankfield-based...
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has added a prize incentive to the meet to be staged at the National Stadium as part of its Olympic Destiny Series tomorrow. JAAA Treasurer Ludlow Watts made the announcement at a press...
Jamaica’s dominance in regional and international athletics over the years has served as a calling card for many youngsters from across the Caribbean who are looking to advance their athletics careers, with the just-concluded ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys...
Wolmer’s Girls’ School track and field head coach Michael Carr says it was the quality of the squad that allowed for an eighth-place finish at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) on Saturday. Wolmer’s ended on 57...
St Elizabeth Technical’s male sprinters were on fire inside the National Stadium on yesterday’s third day of competition at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships inside the National Stadium, sweeping all the three of the...
After months of anxious waiting, it is all systems go as the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) gets under way today at the National Stadium. Champs was cancelled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now...
At the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) over the years, there are athletes from teams not vying for top honours who have left their mark with outstanding performances. They are referred to as spoilers as their...
Three of Jamaica’s top high school girls track and field coaches are positive about their preparation heading into the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) tomorrow. St Jago High School head coach Keilando Goburn...
Senior athletes hoping to get another chance to prepare for the Olympic Games this summer will have to wait another weekend as the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association’s (JAAA) Road To Tokyo Meet set for the National Stadium today at 8:00 a...
Excelsior High School quarter-miler Devontie Archer warmed up for the upcoming ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) with a fine double at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Last Chance Meet at the...
Student athletes preparing for the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics’ Championships (Champs) next month will step up their preparation as the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association stages its final qualifying series of trials with...
St Mary took top honours at a closely contested Eastern Athletics Championships at the National Stadium yesterday, after successfully defending their female title, to dominate the meet with 403.5 overall points, just nine more than second-place...
Local-based 400m hurdler Ronda Whyte has been enjoying an impressive start to the season, despite the COVID-19-forced lockdown restrictions currently being enforced in the island. Whyte, who, like most athletes in and outside of Jamaica, has been...
High School athletes from eastern Jamaica will be seeking to qualify for the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) through the Eastern Athletics Championships, which starts at the National Stadium in Kingston at 8:30 a....
It was a busy day for Jamaica's senior athletes in the United States on Saturday, with several of them registering impressive results at the Oregon Relays in Eugene, Oregon and the Tru Fit Athletics Sprint Classic in Miami, Florida. Natasha...
Edwin Allen High School and St Jago High School continued their dominance at the Central Athletics Championships as both teams retained their Girls and Boys’ titles in convincing fashion yesterday. Edwin head coach Michael Dyke recently told The...
Jamaica will not participate in the fifth staging of the World Athletics Relays, which is scheduled for Charzow, Poland, between May 1 and 2. The development was confirmed by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), which pointed...
Defending male and female champions, St Jago High and Edwin Allen High, will be hoping to continue their dominance, as the two day Central Athletics Championships begin today at GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports starting at 8:30 a....
This year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) will be scaled down from its usual structure, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The five-day even, which will run from May 11-15 at the National Stadium in St Andrew,...
THE PURPLE patch on the collegiate circuit in the sprints continued at the weekend for former Mount Alvernia High School athlete Kemba Nelson. Competing for University of Oregon, Nelson, the surprise winner of the women’s 60m at the National Indoor...
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has selected 39 athletes, comprising 20 females and 19 males, to represent the country at next month’s World Athletics Relays, scheduled for the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, Poland, between...
Jamaican athletes enjoyed field-event success yesterday at the World Athletics Miramar Invitational in Florida, with World Championships gold medallist Tajay Gayle, who captured the long jump event with a season best and a world-leading distance...
