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Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 12:21 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Sport minister Olivia Grange has expressed regret upon hearing that the annual Jamaica International Invitational Meet (JIIM) has been cancelled because of insufficient sponsorships. But, she has promised to work with the organisers to rectify the...

Published:Friday | April 26, 2019 | 12:34 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) selection committee has put together a strong set of athletes to represent the ­country in the 4x400m for men and 4x200m for women at the 2019 IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan, next month...

Published:Saturday | April 13, 2019 | 12:21 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Former track and field star, Carrie Russell, began her hunt to compete in the monobob event (where the bobsled is driven by only one competitor) at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games with a silver medal performance at an International Bobsleigh and...

Published:Saturday | April 13, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Although he believes that his association has put together one of the best teams heading to the annual Carifta Games in recent times, President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Dr Warren Blake is urging high school coaches to...

Published:Friday | April 5, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Despite a number of Jamaica’s top junior athletes set to miss the Carifta Trials this weekend, president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Warren Blake, is defending the association’s decision to set the date of the event...

Published:Saturday | March 30, 2019 | 12:14 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

It has been five years since Holmwood Technical last won the girls’ title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship, and the wait has made the school as hungry as it was for its first title. And while not conceding victory to...

Published:Friday | March 29, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

St Hilda’s High School won the inaugural staging of the ISSA Girls’ Championships in 1957, but the girls from Brown’s Town, St Ann, have not been able to stamp their authority on the event since. Principal Heather Reid-Johnson has been making moves...

Published:Thursday | March 28, 2019 | 12:41 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Rusea’s High School’s Shamella Donaldson, competing for the last time at Champs, produced a moment of magic to win the Class One Girls Discus as defending champions Edwin Allen missed out on scoring opportunities on the second day of the 2019 ISSA/...

Published:Wednesday | March 27, 2019 | 12:33 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Hydel High School have been threatening to beat reigning ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls’ Athletic Championships queens Edwin Allen for the past four seasons, and Lamara Distin knows that she will have to stave off the ­ever-improving Janique Burgher in...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Calabar High physics teacher Sanjaye Shaw, the man at the centre of assault allegations involving two of the school’s biggest track and field stars, De’Jour Russell and Christopher Taylor, has chastised the school’s administration for dragging its...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2019 | 12:35 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Keith Wellington, vice president of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), says that the Calabar High athletes who have been implicated in an alleged assault matter with a teacher at their school can compete at the 2019 ISSA/...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2019 | 12:14 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Jamaica’s Special Olympics team continued its impressive form at the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates yesterday. Rajae Patterson finished second in his heat in the 400m event, clocking 57.10 seconds. Deron...

Published:Saturday | February 23, 2019 | 12:12 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Jamaican Olympic gymnast Toni-Ann Williams has undergone surgery to repair her Achilles tendon. The operation was confirmed by her mother Marlene Williams, who spoke to The Gleaner yesterday . The gymnast ruptured the tendon last Sunday, while...

Published:Thursday | July 8, 2021 | 12:12 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association president Dr Warren Blake has promised a resolution for the date of the annual Senior National Championships by the end of the week. There are suggestions that the national championships, which is used...

Published:Tuesday | January 8, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Amid doubts about her future in the sport, several top local and international track and field figures have offered their congratulations to Jamaican sprinting great Veronica Campbell-Brown and her husband, Omar, following the announcement of her...

Published:Tuesday | January 8, 2019 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Michael Ricketts says the federation is still interested in securing the services of former Manchester United and West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison for the Reggae Boyz.Morrison, who played for...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Several prominent members of the local sporting community died this year. The Gleaner remembers their contributions to Jamaica and the wider sporting world.PATRICK ANDERSON, former president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association and...

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Olympic silver medallist, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn remembers fellow Olympian Dionne Rose-Henley as a good 'trash talker' who would often lighten the atmosphere around her more 'serious' teammates.Rose-Henley, 49, who represented Jamaica in the 100m...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

The Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) is expected to resume tomorrow after a protest by referees forced the postponement of five midweek games.RSPL referees stayed away from all but one of the games scheduled for match day 16 on the league's calendar...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

The end of the stand-off between local football referees and the administrators of the Red Stripe Premier League is not close and this could threaten this weekend's round of matches.Both groups have aired contrasting claims about the payment to...

Published:Friday | December 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Vitus Evans says that the organisation is actively looking for a sponsor to take over the high-profile Diamond Mile race day product.The event, which was created five years...

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

With the passing of legendary Clarendon College (CC) coach Winston Chung-Fah serving as a motivator, current head coach Lenworth 'Teacher' Hyde was able to guide the daCosta Cup champions to their fourth Olivier Shield title with a 1-0 win over...

Published:Friday | December 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Last weekend, Ludlow Bernard and Lenny Hyde added two coveted titles to their coaching rÈsumÈs, when they led Kingston College (KC) and Clarendon College respectively, to the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup and ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup titles.However, only...

Published:Thursday | December 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

Having led his alma mater Kingston College (KC) to the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup title, ending a 32-year wait in the process, head coach Ludlow Bernard has cast doubts on his future in the position.Though the thought of trying to engineer the next...

Published:Thursday | December 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMAkino Ming/Staff Reporter

RJRGLEANER Sportsman of the Year nominee, Fedrick Dacres, is thrilled to be among the nominees for the coveted award and said he knew all along that he could become one of the island's finest athletes across all disciplines.This despite the fact...

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