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...
Xavier Nairne, Damion Thomas, and Kemba Nelson had wins in their respective events in their first outdoor collegiate meets of the season on Saturday. The University of Oregon had a win and a third-place finish at 42nd Aztec Invitational Meet at San...
High-school teams from central Jamaica have dominated the girls’ section of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships over the years, with Vere Technical, Holmwood Technical, Edwin Allen, St Jago and Manchester High schools...
Coaches from schools along Jamaica’s eastern corridor have expressed disappointment with the last-minute news that the Eastern Athletics Championships, which was scheduled to take place at the National Stadium yesterday, did not receive government...
Following the cancellation of the Eastern Athletics Championships, the Central Athletics Championships slated for Wednesday and Thursday at G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, has also been called off. In an interview with The...
High school athletes from eastern Jamaica, who were preparing for the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships, suffered a major blow late Monday night, with news of the cancellation of the the Eastern Athletics Championships,...
Defending champions Kingston College (KC) and Excelsior staved off strong challenges from Jamaica College (JC) and Wolmer’s Girls to retain their Boys and Girls titles at the two-day Anthrick Corporate Area Development Meet at the National Stadium...
Two-time Olympic and four-time World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will make her season’s debut around 4:30 this afternoon, when she competes in Section Two of the women’s 200m at the Velocity Fest Meet scheduled for the National Stadium at 4 p....
ISSA’s executive body met with more than 120 high school coaches yesterday regarding proposals for hosting this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Champs Organising Committee Chairman Richard Thompson said...
Jamaican collegiate athletes had three wins in individual events, and four top-three finishes at the NCAA Division One Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, at the weekend. Louisiana State University’s (LSU) Damion Thomas...
Local senior athletes will join their junior counterparts in action today, as the series of Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Qualification Trial meets will continue at seven venues across the island, five of which will be held in...
With the weekend’s completion of the second series of Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association qualifying trial meets held across the island, coach of national girls champions Edwin Allen High School, Michael Dyke, is pleased with his team’s...
A number of Jamaicans will be involved in this weekend’s NCAA Division 1 Indoor Track and Field Championships to be held over three days, starting on Thursday at the Randal Tyson Track Centre, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. One of the Jamaicans who...
After a return to competitive action a week ago, high-school athletes will today step up their preparation for this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, as the second in the series of three Jamaica Athletics...
Whispers a year ago that Jamaica College (JC) and Hydel High School were ready to dethrone respective 2019 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ champions, Kingston College and Edwin Allen High, were never tested due to the devastating effect of the...
Former Kingston College jumper Carey McLeod led the dominant performances by Jamaican collegiate athletes in NCAA Division 1 Conference Championship meets in the United States over the weekend. Jamaican athletes picked up seven wins, along with...
The coaches behind Jamaica’s top male and female high school track and field teams, Kingston College (KC) and Edwin Allen, respectively, have welcomed the return of competitive athletics in the island, following Saturday’s first set of Jamaica...
The country’s high-school athletes will return to the track today, as they begin to step up their preparations for the April 27 to March 1, ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at seven Jamaica Athletics Administrative...
After weeks of inactivity, the country’s top senior athletes will finally get a chance to ply their trade, after the Government’s midweek decision to approve competition locally, with over 200 senior competitors set for action inside the National...
Local athletics stakeholders are breathing a collective sigh of relief, while issuing a word of warning ahead of this weekend’s return of competitive track and field, which arrives after weeks on inactivity and two rejected protocol proposals. The...
Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, the 2015 World Championships 100m hurdles gold medallist, was in fantastic form at Sunday’s fourth and final leg of the American Track League in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as she raced to a personal-best 7.86 seconds to...
Former Calabar High School middle and long-distance runner Kevroy Venson and Jozanne Harris ruled supreme at the 23rd staging of the Sagicor SIGMA Corporate Run in Kingston yesterday. Venson, representing Trainfit Club Mile Chasers, stopped the...
Danielle Williams, the 2015 World Champion in the 100m hurdles and 2015 World Champion 4x400m relay athlete Chrisann Gordon will compete tomorrow in the fourth and final leg of the American League series at the Randal Tyson Track Centre in...
Track and field athletes will have to endure even further delays to their season as more meets have been scrapped for this weekend. This follows a postponement of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Qualifying Trial meets a...
