Squash players Chris Binnie and Clive Walters got Jamaica’s gold hunt at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, under way yesterday with victory in the men’s double. Binnie and Walters beat the Guatemalan pair of Josue Enriquez and Alejandro...
Danielle Williams’ performance at the London Diamond league not only made her the fastest-ever Jamaican woman in the sprint hurdles, it also made her the leader in the Diamond League race, which in itself provides for her an opportunity to earn a...
President of the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) Martin Lyn says the association is on track to secure the required funding to finance eight junior swimmers to the FINA World Junior Swimming Championship next month. It was reported...
Almost a month after it was reported that the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) may not take up an invitation for sprint hurdler Danielle Williams to compete at the IAAF World Championships if she wins the Diamond race in the...
The rivalry between Yohan Blake, the 2011 world 100m champion, and his former training partner, Zharnel Hughes, could intensify at this weekend’s London Diamond League, as both athletes will stand on the line for the men’s 100 metres for the second...
Briana Williams’ heroics at the National Senior Championships last month means that she will line up with the big girls at the IAAF World Championships in September. But the fastest 17-year-old ever is still carrying out junior duties and is billed...
Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo drew the first blood in the season-long battle with Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson over 200m at the Monaco leg of the IAAF Diamond League yesterday. Miller-Uibo, a 400m specialist, blitzed to 22.09 seconds to beat...
Reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson’s world-leading time of 22.00 seconds in the 200 metres is under threat today at the Monaco Diamond League as the 27-year-old and Bahamian star sprinter Shaunae Miller-Uibo are scheduled to clash in the...
Red Stripe Premier League outfit Arnett Gardens FC have taken another step towards becoming financially sustainable, having signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with IgnitionSport, a wing of Intellectual Property Mining Group (IPMG), a...
Jamaica has been selected to host the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) annual congress in 2021, president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, Chris Stokes, told The Gleaner. The congress, which will see its 92nd...
Chief starter Ludlow Watts said he would have violated IAAF rules if he had allowed hurdler Danielle Williams to run in the final of the women’s 100m hurdles under protest after she was adjudged to have false-started at the recently concluded...
The athletics world is still in awe of 17-year-old Briana Williams’ sublime 10.94-second run in the women’s 100m at the recently concluded JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Athletics Championships, but her coach, Ato Boldon, warns that the...
Elaine Thompson beat Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by the finest of margins to win the women’s 100m at the 2019 JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium last night as Briana Williams continues to rewrite the...
Triple Jumper Shanieka Ricketts has been yearning to join the 15-metre club for some time now, and her consistency this season suggests that it could happen before the 2019 athletics season ends. The 27- year-old leaped to a personal best of 14.76m...
The beaming smile Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce flashed after she registered 10.88 seconds to win the women’s 100m at the fourth staging of the Racers Adidas Grand Prix last Saturday night wasn’t just because she had run her fastest time since competing...
All eyes will be on two-time Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce this evening when she takes the track at the National Stadium, at the fourth staging of the Racers Adidas Grand Prix. The two-time Olympic 100m gold medallist blitzed to 10.97...
Fedrick Dacres produced a fine discus series, which included two season-best performances, but could not overthrow world leader Daniel Stahl in front of his home crowd, while double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson continues to find her form at the...
When Akeem Bloomfield stormed to 19.81 seconds at the London Anniversary Games last year, he placed himself among a small group of athletes, who have both gone under 44 seconds in the 400m and dip under 20 seconds in the 200m. But the achievement...
Long after Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz finished their preparation for this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup at one of Florida’s best sporting facilities, the City of Miramar will continue its relations with the country, as it has signed a memorandum of...
Yokohama, Japan: Jamaica tallied their lowest number of points ever at an IAAF World Relays after finishing second with 27 points behind the United States of America (USA), who totalled 54 points, as the black, green and gold participation at the...
Yokohama, Japan: Maurice Wilson, the head coach for Jamaica’s team at the IAAF World Relay Games, believes that Jamaica will benefit tremendously in the near future from its new approach to preparing for relays at major championships. Wilson said...
Yokohama, Japan: Today, Jamaica will take another step to reinvigorate its dominance on the global athletics stage when it seeks to stamp its authority on the 2019 World Relays. In light of the fading of the sublime speed that propelled the nation...
YOKOHAMA, Japan: Jamaica will seek to answer some questions about its prowess in sprinting at the fourth staging of the IAAF World Relays, which gets under way here tomorrow. The retirement of sprint legend Usain Bolt and the absence of the never-...
President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Dr Warren Blake says that the travel arrangements for the team going to Japan for the IAAF World Relays were made to coincide with the opening time of the competition’s athletes’...
Vice-president of the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) Georgia Sinclair and veteran swim coach Rory Alvarang, believe that a centralised national swimming programme for Jamaica’s junior swimmers will help them make the transition to...
