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Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING THEIR semi-final exit at the hands of neighbouring school Garvey Maceo in last year’s daCosta Cup football competition, Glenmuir High School are hoping to go all the way this time around. Undoubtedly the top team heading into last year’s...

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ONE MONTH before the deadline for the entry of all countries’ athletes to the Tokyo World Championships, several Jamaicans who finished in the top three at the National Junior and Senior and Championships [Trials] are yet to attain the automatic...

Published:Saturday | July 26, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Action on yesterday’s opening day of the Clarendon Elite schoolboy football competition at Glenmuir High School saw Denbigh High, Vere Technical, Munro College, and Glenmuir High advancing to today’s semifinals. In the opening game of the...

Published:Saturday | July 26, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

OVER the past 72 hours, there has been a big buzz and quite a lot of excitement among local track and field fans, as well as several analysts on social media, following the massive personal best of 9.82 seconds by young Bryan Levell in winning the...

Published:Wednesday | July 23, 2025 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

SEVERAL JAMAICANS were in action yesterday at the Folksam Grand Prix in Varberg, Sweden, a World Continental Challenge meet, where Odaine McPherson produced the best performance among his countrymen. McPherson picked up the only win of the day for...

Published:Wednesday | July 23, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

EIGHT SCHOOLBOY football teams, led by 2024 FLOW Cup champions Glenmuir High School, will step up their preparation for the 2025 season when they compete in the inaugural staging of the Clarendon Elite football competition, set to run over three...

Published:Tuesday | July 22, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

AFTER BOOKING their ticket to the Tokyo World Championships in the men’s 4x100-metre relay at the London Diamond League with a nippy 37.80 seconds, Jamaica will now focus on the women’s 4x400m and mixed 4x400m relays in their quest to qualify for...

Published:Saturday | July 19, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WORLD Championships-bound Rushell Clayton will not be in the line-up for the women’s 400-metre hurdles when the event gets under way at today’s NOVUNA London Diamond League inside the London Stadium as she has made a late withdrawal. There has...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

IT WAS a busy day for Jamaican athletes, who competed across three World Continental Tour meets in Canada, Italy, and Switzerland on Tuesday. Competing at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Silver meet in Luzern, Switzerland, World Championships in Luzern...

Published:Thursday | July 17, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING BOTCHED exchanges at the World Relays and failure to achieve the automatic qualifying mark for the Tokyo World Championships, Jamaica’s male sprinters will make another attempt this Saturday at the London Diamond League in their bid to...

Published:Wednesday | July 16, 2025 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WITH FOUR more preliminary rounds of Diamond League events to go before the grand finals in Zurich, Switzerland, from August 27–28, seventeen Jamaicans — led by triple jumpers Shanieka Ricketts and Jordan Scott — are in strong positions to qualify...

Published:Tuesday | July 15, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN THE 11th stop in the Wanda Diamond League gets under way this Saturday in London, there will be an invasion of the country’s top senior athletes, as 13 of them are set to compete in individual events, while a stacked men’s 4x100-metre relay...

Published:Monday | July 14, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

NAVASKY Anderson joined Adrian Kerr in punching individual tickets for the Tokyo World Championships after winning the men’s 800m on Saturday night at the Sound Running Sunset Tour inside the Jack Kemp Stadium in Los Angeles. The former St Jago...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S UNDER-21 netballers are in full preparation mode as they look ahead of the World Youth Cup tournament, set to be held in Gibraltar from September 19–28. With just over two months to go, the squad – under the guidance of head Coach Annett...

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2025 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has selected a powerful 47-member team – 21 females and 26 males – to represent the country at the NACAC Senior Track and Field Championships, to be held in Freeport, Bahamas, from August 15-...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DIAMOND LEAGUE leader Jordan Scott of Jamaica will be hoping to maintain his good form when he competes in the men’s triple jump at this Friday’s Diamond League meet in Monaco. The Herculis Diamond League, the 10th stage in the series, will see...

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S JENOI Daley and Dequan Dawkins were respectively crowned under-13 female and under-15 male champions at the NACAC Age Group Championships over the weekend in Nicaragua. The multiple-event championships saw Daley, the St Patrick Primary...

Published:Monday | July 7, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle is still positive that Jamaica’s relay teams will attain the qualifying times for the Tokyo World Championships in September, despite failing to do so in two of the...

Published:Saturday | July 5, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, is excited about the participation of the country’s young athletes at the fifth staging of the two-day NACAC Under-13 and Under-15 Championships. The meet gets under...

Published:Saturday | July 5, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING the recent track and field coaching changes at top boys’ high schools Calabar and Kingston College, there has been a new addition to the coaching staff at another powerhouse — Jamaica College. After the appointment of Richard Smith as...

Published:Thursday | July 3, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN THE selection committee of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) sits to select the team for the Tokyo World Championships, scheduled for September 13–21, it could be a major headache for the Garth Gayle-led body as several...

Published:Wednesday | July 2, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

A WEEK before the JAAA National Junior and Senior Championships, big performances from the country’s record-breaking under-20 athletes at the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, were expected, and the athletes, making their way in the...

Published:Tuesday | July 1, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHILE SENIOR athletes got most of the spotlight at last weekend’s JAAA National Junior and Senior Athletics Championships, there were several outstanding performances by the country’s juniors, especially in the hurdle events. Both the under-18 and...

Published:Monday | June 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

MEGAN Tapper and Orlando Bennett stole the spotlight on yesterday’s final day of competition at the 2025 JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium. Olympic bronze medallist Tapper of Elite Performance Track Club, who...

Published:Monday | June 30, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

EDWIN Allen High’s Monique Stewart gave herself a big morale booster going into her collegiate career on Saturday. The 20-year-old who was plagued with injury earlier in the season, disrupting her ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...

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