Natoya Goule pulled off another national record breaking performance on the Diamond League circuit yesterday in Monaco.Goule stopped the clock at 1:56.15 seconds to erase her previous mark of 1:57.69, a time she did two weeks ago on the Rabat leg of...
Jamaica's senior women's football team lost 2-1 to Venezuela in their opening group stage encounter yesterday at the Central American and Caribbean Games, after missing two penalties in the late stages of the match.The Reggae Girlz took the lead in...
Jamaica's lacrosse team continued their impressive run at the 2018 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Israel after they beat Finland 8-7 in their 13th to15th-place match yesterday.The team showed resilience to pull off a...
Before he calls time on his career, Nesta Carter wants to win another individual medal at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, he told The Gleaner after competing in the 100m A race at the JN Racers Grand Prix last weekend at the National...
When she stood behind the starting block before the start of the 100m at the JN Racers Grand Prix on Saturday night at the National Stadium, two-time Olympic 100m champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was overwhelmed with nervousness, she told The...
Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the Bahamian Olympic Champion in the 400m, is hoping to dip under 22 seconds in the 200 metres tonight at the third staging of the Racers Grand Prix."I am really excited to be back here in Jamaica. It is a fun place to compete,...
Although he hopes the meet will grow to achieve its main purpose, which is to generate funds for the operations of his track club, meet director of Racers Grand Prix Glen Mills said that earning Diamond League status is not one of the goals of the...
In an effort to improve the pace of his development, two-time World Under-20 400m hurdles champion Jaheel Hyde has moved to the MVP Track and Field Club.Hyde, who was being guided by his former high-school coach Christopher Harley, said that he was...
Since it was established in 1980, the G.C. Foster College has produced a number of graduates who have contributed tremendously to the growth of local track and field.The likes of Maurice Wilson, Michael Clarke, Neil Harrison, and Danny Hawthorne...
As she walked through the Marathon Tunnel at the National Stadium for the very last time as a competitior last Saturday, veteran Jamaican sprinter Kerron Stewart had to fight hard to hold back the tears as the reality of her final race on home soil...
In the current topsy-turvy environment of world athletics since sprinting legend Usain Bolt retired from the sport, schoolboy Christopher Taylor reminded everyone that Jamaica is still the place to look for track and field's greatest as he defeated...
Since he won his first global title at the 2004 World Junior Championship in the 400m, Lashawn Merritt has gone on to win practically everything at the senior level in the event.This includes an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games and two...
After a breakout season last year which saw her earning her first senior representation at the IAAF World Championships in London, Chrisann Gordon says she will be the next Jamaican female 400 metres runner to break the 50 seconds barrier.Gordon...
For the past 14 years, the Jamaica International Invitational Meet (JIIM) has brought some of the finest talents track and field has to offer to sports fans in Jamaica and the organisers believe that they have laid the groundwork for future success...
When the Jamaican team qualified for the Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament last November, chairman of the Jamaica Rugby Union Jerry Benzwick thought that sponsors would be lining up to associate themselves with the team's historic achievement.But...
President of the Jamaica Football Federation, Michael Ricketts, says that he will meet with the heads of the Premier League Clubs Association (PLCA) and Professional Football Association of Jamaica (PFAJ) to discuss the organisational structure of...
Despite finishing third in the 100m in her first Diamond League race of the season in Doha, Qatar, yesterday, double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson has underlined lowering her personal best in the event as her target for the season.Thompson sped...
Olympic Champions Elaine Thompson and Kerron Clement have been named as headliners for this year's Jamaica International Invitational Meet (JIIM). The announcement was made at the meet's launch yesterday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston....
Her winsome smile on the television screen before her races may indicate that she is always beaming with confidence, but Natoya Goule never believed she had what it takes to compete with the likes of Caster Semenya and some of the other great 800m...
After enduring a series of setbacks at the beginning of the season, Danielle Williams says she will forever cherish the silver medal she won in the 100m hurdles at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games.The 2015 world champion suffered two major...
Sports Minister Olivia Grange has said that Jamaica's performance at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, demonstrates that the country is expanding its reach in athletics.Grange, who was at the Norman Manley...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, revealed last night that serious discussions are taking place to bring back the Commonwealth Games to Jamaica.Jamaica hosted the Games in 1966 and remain the only Caribbean nation...
With this season's top six teams in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) all being based in the Corporate Area, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts is among those admitting that there is a need to revisit the format of the...
Kimberly Williams said that it is the blueprint set by national record holder Trecia-Kaye Smith, which is enabling herself and Shanieka Ricketts to excel in the triple-jump.Williams' comments came after the two Jamaicans entertained the world with a...
World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (SFP) is urging all runners and walkers to join her tomorrow morning to take part in the SFP/ Hugh Senior 5K run/walk race in Waterhouse, starting at 7:00 a.m.The event, which is organised by Fraser...
