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Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE University of West Indies (UWI) are back at the top of men's intercollegiate football. Last Saturday, they defeated defending champions G.C. Foster College 3-1 at the Harbour View Mini Stadium to win the Division One title and complete the...

Published:Tuesday | December 4, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

For the past 10 years, Holmwood Technical and Denbigh High have dominated rural schoolgirl netball, and the two will continue this trend today in the finals of the ISSA Rural Schoolgirl competition at Manchester High where they will be defending...

Published:Thursday | November 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

It was not a day for champions at the Leila Robinson Courts on Wednesday during the Urban Area ISSA Schoolgirl Netball championships semi-finals as defending Junior and Senior champions, St Catherine High and Gaynstead, respectively, were both...

Published:Sunday | November 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

GC Foster College's Garfield Gordon continued his excellent form on the road this season after being the overall winner of the fourth staging of the GC Foster College 5K/Run/Walk Road Race in Angels, Spanish Town, yesterday. Fresh off his win the...

Published:Friday | November 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE penultimate set of matches in Intercol Intermediate and Junior netball competitions will be played today, with semi-final action taking place at the University of West Indies starting at 10 a.m.After winning the Intermediate A title for the past...

Published:Tuesday | November 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE final set of matches in the second round of the urban Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) schoolgirls netball competition will be played today at the Leila Robinson Courts, and with the semi-finals to be played next week Wednesday...

Published:Sunday | November 11, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

St Catherine High School's netballers sent out a strong signal to their rivals on Friday in the second set of urban of matches in the ISSA Schoolgirls Netball Competition at the Leila Robinson Courts as the Phyllis Thompson-coached teams had double...

Published:Friday | September 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Gaynstead High's netball teams have sent out early warnings to their rivals in the ISSA urban area schoolgirls netball competition after impressive wins in their opening junior and senior matches.The defending junior champions rattled up a big 54-1...

Published:Friday | September 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

A strong Americas track and field squad, with several Jamaican stars in the line-up, will be looking to dethrone defending champions Europe when the two-day IAAF Continental Cup gets under way in Ostrava, Czech Republic.The Continental Cup, formerly...

Published:Tuesday | August 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Several stars of the 2018 Diamond League series will be on show tomorrow and Friday in Zurich and Brussels, respectively.After 12 different stops, 32 champions will be crowned in individual events with the winners set to walk away with Diamond...

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Playing at home and with a record crowd of over 13,700 fans, a victory was expected for West Coast Fever, the team of Jamaica senior netball team captain Jhaniele Fowler-Reid, playing in the Suncorp Super Netball final in Perth, Australia. But this...

Published:Friday | August 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

TRACK and field fans can expect some superb performances today as the 12th staging in the Diamond League series takes place in Birmingham, England.This is the final meet before the grand finals scheduled for Zurich and Brussels and it will be the...

Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

After creating history and becoming the first Jamaican to run faster than 44 seconds in the 400m and 20 seconds in the 200m, it is perhaps to be expected that Akeem Bloomfield would draw comparisons to another towering Jamaican, Usain Bolt.Bolt did...

Published:Sunday | July 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica ended its sojourn at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships on a high as Calabar High School's Kai Chang, with gold in the men's discus; Britany Anderson, with silver in the women's 100m hurdles; and the women's 4x400m relay team with bronze...

Published:Thursday | July 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica had a golden day at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, yesterday.Briana Williams, 16, captured the women's 100 metres event while Damion Thomas gave the country its first-ever win in the men's 110 metres hurdles as he...

Published:Thursday | July 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

There were no wins at yesterday's Lausanne Diamond League in Switzerland for Jamaican athletes, but there were second-place finishes for Janieve Russell, who posted a big personal best, and Elaine Thompson, and a third-place finish for Shericka...

Published:Monday | July 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaican athletes had two wins at yesterday's Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Hungary, as Janieve Russell and Fedrick Dacres captured their events. However, there was disappointment for World and Olympic Games 110m hurdles champion, Omar McLeod, who...

Published:Friday | June 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Eleven Jamaicans, led by top discus thrower Fedrick Dacres, will be in action at today's seventh stage of the lucrative Diamond League series in Paris.Dacres who won at the Stockholm meet with a season's best 69.57 metres, will be hoping for another...

Published:Thursday | June 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Calabar High's Christopher Taylor and overseas-based Briana Williams will lead a 42-member team, 22 males and 20 females, to the IAAF World Under-20 Championships, which will be held in Tampere, Finland, July 10-15.Taylor, who won the senior 400m...

Published:Sunday | June 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Four hundred metre sprinter Akeem Bloomfield, formerly of Kingston College, has decided to go professional after signing with sporting brand Puma International. Bloomfield had what many described as a fantastic collegiate season, which ended with a...

Published:Sunday | June 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Schoolboy Christopher Taylor upstaged his more senior athletes by taking home the Men's 400m title in 44.86 seconds, on the final day of the JAAA Supreme Ventures Limited National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium yesterday....

Published:Friday | June 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The spotlight will be on the men's 400 metres semi-finals on today's penultimate day of competition at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures Limited National Junior and Senior Championships inside the National Stadium.One of the athletes down to contest the...

Published:Sunday | June 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

A new champion will be crowned in the men's 400m race this Sunday at the JAAA National Senior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium as defending champion Nathan Allen will not be competing.Allen and his University of Auburn teammate Akeem...

Published:Sunday | June 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The country's top local senior and junior athletes warmed up for this weekend's JAAA National Athletics Championships after creditable performances during the fifth All Comers Meet at the National Stadium on Saturday.Former Commonwealth Games 100m...

Published:Tuesday | June 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's top two 400 metres runners, the University of Auburn's Nathon Allen and Akeem Bloomfield, will be two of six Jamaicans in action today when the four-day National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Track and Field...

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