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Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

More than 30 Jamaicans, led by the University of Auburn's Nathon Allen, will be hoping to advance to next month's NCAA Division One Championships when the three-day East and West preliminary Championships get under way today.The East Championships...

Published:Friday | May 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

The National Stadium will be buzzing with excitement this evening as a galaxy of stars will be on show at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet. The international women's long jump and the women's 100m hurdles events, which start at 7:30 p.m...

Published:Friday | April 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania:Following victories earlier in the day by Edwin Allen and Holmwood, Hydel made it three out of three for defending champions, after closing the show yesterday in the final event for high school girls at the Penn Relays, by...

Published:Friday | April 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania:Action is expected to hit high gear among the boys, when the final day of competition at the 124th Penn Relays gets under way on the University of Pennsylvania campus with the likes of Calabar, St Elizabeth Technical (...

Published:Thursday | April 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania:Edwin Allen were the toast of yesterday's opening day of the 124th staging of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.There was double success for Edwin Allen in jumping events through Lotavia Brown and Jonique Burgher.Brown...

Published:Wednesday | April 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

HEAD coach of Jamaica's track and field team at the recent Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Maurice Wilson, is hailing the success of the athletes following their record-breaking performance.Jamaica won an all-time best 25 medals (7 gold...

Published:Tuesday | March 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

Former Titchfield thrower Kai Chang will be donning the colours of Calabar for the first time, when he competes in the Class One discus and shot put at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships at the National Stadium this week.A...

Published:Monday | March 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

Calabar High School assistant coach Omar Hawes said that the Red Hills Road based school is ready to begin its defence of its title at this year's ISSA Grace/Kennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships , starting today at the National Stadium."...

Published:Tuesday | March 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

A year ago, Excelsior High school hurdler Devontie Archer missed the final of the Class Two boys' 400 metres hurdles, after finishing ninth overall in the semi-finals round. Fast-forward one year, and Archer is determined to set things right.This is...

Published:Friday | March 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

THE ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships is just two weeks away, but today inside the National Stadium fans are in store for some special performances as they will get a sneak preview, with several top high school athletes clashing in the...

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

Sprint star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has underlined the importance of a good relationship between a coach and his athletes.In her presentation as the guest speaker at the annual Howard Aris Memorial Lecture at the University of Technology on...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

It was a record turnout of participants at yesterday's staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate 5K Fun Run in New Kingston. More than 26,000 entrants took part in both the Run and Walk events, where $50 million was raised by the organisers to help...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

The two-day Anthrick Corporate Area Meet gets under way at the National Stadium today.There should be a lot of fireworks in this second leg of the Digicel Grand Prix series as the top two boys teams in the country- Calabar High and Kingston College...

Published:Sunday | February 11, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

There were good all-round performances from Vere Technical High School's girls, led by IAAF World Under-18 400m hurdles silver medallist Sanique Walker at Saturday's Camperdown Classic at the National Stadium.Walker, who was very unlucky not to have...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

ALL eyes will be on the hurdle events when the 21st staging of the Youngster Goldsmith Meet takes place inside the National Stadium today starting at 8:00 a.m. with the men's 0pen 400m hurdles set to get things underway.The meet has been renamed the...

Published:Sunday | January 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham/ Gleaner Writer

It was records galore at Saturday's ninth staging of the Central Hurdles and Relays Meet at G.C. Foster College as some of the country's top senior and high-school athletes entertained the fair-sized crowd with excellent performances on and off the...

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