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Published:Saturday | January 20, 2024 | 12:08 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

When the Central Hurdles and Relays (CHR) gets started at G. C. Foster College today, the 2024 track and field season will enter a new phase. It’s relay season. Based on the sprinters living and training in Jamaica, fans could be in for a treat....

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

WITH A breakout 2023 season under his belt, 400-metre runner Zandrion Barnes has his sights set on the Olympic Games. On the evidence of last season, it may not just be wishful thinking. The GC Foster College student-athlete improved for the fifth...

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

INJURIES HAVE derailed the dreams of Jonielle Smith in the past, so she is grateful for the consistent run of training she is enjoying at present. Smith, a 2019 World Championships 4x100 gold medal winner, is patiently approaching this season and...

Published:Tuesday | January 16, 2024 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Driven by disappointment, ‘miracle’ sprinter Michael Campbell has come into the new year fit and ready. His improved physical condition has given him an optimistic view on the Olympic year and his chances to represent Jamaica again. Campbell, a...

Published:Tuesday | January 16, 2024 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

A lot has happened since Tia Clayton was more prominent than her speedy twin, Tina. Since the 2019 Boys and Girls’ Championships Class Three 200 final, won by Tia over Tina with a slim margin, Tina has become most pundits’ pick to become the next...

Published:Friday | January 12, 2024 | 12:11 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

New St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS) track and field technical leader Dwayne Jarrett says he is still learning the culture of the Santa Cruz institution. However, he says his coaching staff is making the transition easier. “Still learning the...

Published:Wednesday | January 10, 2024 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA COLLEGE middle-distance team leader Kemarrio Bygrave is the reigning ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships Class 1 800-metre champion and if his display at last Saturday’s JC Invitational is anything to go by, he will be...

Published:Tuesday | January 9, 2024 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

In his second World Athletics Championships long jump final, Jamaica’s Wayne Pinnock moved up from ninth to scarcely an inch away from the gold medal last August in Budapest. Jeremy Delisser, Pinnock’s coach when he was at Kingston College (KC),...

Published:Monday | January 8, 2024 | 12:08 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

DESPITE FINANCIAL limitations, there was lots of table tennis activity in 2023. A flurry of tournaments and a national award for coach Sandra Reittie put a smile on the faces of the organisers and coaches who kept the game going. Scoring at the...

Published:Saturday | December 30, 2023 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

By the time track and field competition begins in Paris at the 2024 Olympics, 21 years will have passed since the last global championships in the French capital. Those were the World Athletics Championships of Kim Collins, Hicham El Guerrouj,...

Published:Friday | December 29, 2023 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

According to three-time national champion Chris Marsh, discipline is essential for those who seek to scale the heights in table tennis. Marsh sees that winning discipline in 2023 Jamaica champion Mark Phillips, whom he says learnt a lot at the...

Published:Thursday | December 28, 2023 | 12:12 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

SHERICKA JACKSON’S pursuit of the 200-metre world record didn’t quite hit the target. Jackson closed the gap between her best and the 1988 mark by American Florence Griffith-Joyner – 21.34 seconds – to 0.07 and the chase will have to continue....

Published:Tuesday | December 26, 2023 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

WOLMER’S GIRLS’ School did so well in 2023 at Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships that the ladies from Heroes Circle moved up from 8th in 2022 to 6th place. The school’s long-serving head coach, Michael Carr, reckons another solid campaign lies...

Published:Tuesday | December 26, 2023 | 12:08 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

WITH THE Paris Olympic Games just around the corner, it’s worth a reminder that Jamaica will go to the French capital as defending champions in the women’s 4x100 relay. In 2021, Briana Williams, Elaine Thompson Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and...

Published:Friday | December 22, 2023 | 12:06 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

At the very same event where triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert last week lifted the most important US college track and field award for student-athletes, another Jamaican was in the spotlight. The star this time was former St Andrew Technical head coach...

Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2023 | 12:13 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

ANDREW HUDSON is definitely a 200-metre specialist. At 19.87 seconds, he is the joint ninth fastest Jamaican of all time and he has twice won the National Championships 200-metre title. However, you might just see him in the 100 at next year’s...

Published:Tuesday | December 19, 2023 | 12:08 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

One of the dramatic moments of the 19th World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary happened to Andrew Hudson of Jamaica. As he journeyed to his 200 metres semi-finals, the vehicle he was in crashed and glass splintered into his face....

Published:Monday | December 18, 2023 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Kevin Pryce looks too young to have coached track athletes for the best part of 30 years. However, there is something keeping the baby-faced hurdles guru young: he simply loves to coach. Pryce, a recent 30-year long service Jamaica Track and Field...

Published:Saturday | December 16, 2023 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Jaydon Hibbert and St Lucian Julien Alfred swept the top prizes at Thursday night’s Bowerman Awards in the United States. Hibbert, an 18-year-old triple jumper from Kingston and the University of Arkansas, was named the most outstanding male track...

Published:Friday | December 15, 2023 | 12:12 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

One key narrative of the last two seasons has been the progress of Shericka Jackson. The former 400-metres runner has become one of the world’s finest 100 and 200m sprinters and now stands an eye blink from the world-record for the longer event....

Published:Friday | December 15, 2023 | 12:09 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Jaydon Hibbert’s fine 2023 triple jump season put him in contention for the Bowerman Award, the prize for the most outstanding US collegiate athlete of the past season. However, even before that presentation, Hibbert is looking ahead to Paris,...

Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:14 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

ALMOST 60 YEARS ago, in 1965, Excelsior High School sent a team to the renowned Penn Relays for the first time and came home with a victory by Neville Myton in the high school mile. On Saturday at the 20th PA Benjamin Wesley Powell Excelsior Track...

Published:Thursday | December 7, 2023 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

SCHOOLBOY FOOTBALL’S neutrals are probably delighted at the 2023 form of Glenmuir High School. Last year, after a fine start to the season, Glenmuir won the Ben Francis Trophy, a consolation tournament for those schools who depart the daCosta Cup...

Published:Tuesday | December 5, 2023 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Schoolboy football’s neutrals are probably delighted at the 2023 form of Glenmuir High School. Last year, after a fine start to the season, Glenmuir won the Ben Francis Trophy, a consolation tournament for those schools who depart the daCosta Cup...

Published:Monday | December 4, 2023 | 12:10 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

Kane Watson and Christopher Marsh are near the back-end of their playing careers, but recently, these former national table tennis singles champions discovered they still have the touch. Watson and Marsh, one-two at the 2022 Nationals, joined...

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