JAMAICA HAS never produced a woman who has brought home an Olympic Games gold medal over the 400 metres. That little fact of history may change in Paris. The event, which begins on Monday August 5, with the finals slated four days later on Friday...
JAMAICANS Danielle Williams, Ackera Nugent, and Janeek Brown go into the women’s 100-metre hurdles first round at the Paris Olympic Games on August 7, vying for a medal in one of the most competitive environments in the event’s history....
NINE JAMAICANS, led by national 400 metres champion and record holder Nickisha Pryce, will step up their preparations for the Paris Olympic Games when they compete in the London Wanda Diamond League today. Pryce, the second-fastest woman this...
SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE’S final Olympic Games in Paris, France, has not been the smoothest and while warming up for the Spitzen Leichathetik World Continental Silver Tour meet in Luzern, Switzerland, Jamaicans were reminded of that. The 100-metre...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, thanked the Mayor of Stuttgart in Germany yesterday for providing the country’s athletes with facilities for a training camp ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris....
KEMBA NELSON, who was named an Alternate Person (AP) Reserve by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) to the women’s 4x100-metre relay squad to the Paris Olympic Games, was in good form yesterday at a World Continental Challenge...
NATIONAL 400 metres hurdles champion Malik James-King produced another gallant run on the Wanda Diamond League circuit in Monaco with a fourth- place finish behind the world’s three fastest men in the one-lap obstacle event. There were also fourth-...
WITH JUST around three weeks to go before the Olympic Games, several of the main medal contenders will clash at the Monaco Diamond League Meeting Herculis, the penultimate meet of the series before the showpiece event. National 400-metre hurdles...
JAMAICAN ATHLETES at yesterday’s 14th Gyulai István Memorial World Continental Gold meet in Hungary had mixed fortunes. Kishane Thompson was an impressive winner in the men’s 100 metres while Shericka Jackson pulled up in the women’s 200....
LED BY national double sprint champion Shericka Jackson and men’s 100-metre champion, Kishane Thompson, 16 Jamaicans will be in action at today’s 14th Gyulai István Memorial World Continental Gold meet in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. Jackson, who says...
COMPETING IN HIS second Diamond League meet of the season, national 400-metre hurdles champion Malik James-King improved to notch a podium finish at yesterday’s Meeting De Paris in Paris, France. James-King was fifth in his first Diamond League...
DEFENDING OLYMPIC champion Hansle Parchment and world champion Grant Halloway of the United States will renew battle in the men’s 110-metre hurdles on July 12 at the Meeting Herculis EBS, Wanda Diamond League in Monaco. Despite indifferent form...
WHILE THE senior athletes took centre stage at the just-concluded JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships, the country’s juniors, who were vying for places on the team to the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, from August 27-30...
ACKERA NUGENT is the new national record holder over the 100-metre hurdles, stealing the spotlight on an eventful day at the JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium yesterday. Nugent turned the event into a one-...
MVP Track Club athletes captured the women’s and men’s 100 metres titles as the curtain came down on a brilliant second day of the JAAA/Puma National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium last night. The star of the show was...
JAMAICAN SPRINTING sensations Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce shook off indifferent form to remind the world they weren’t done in the first round of the 100 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Trials at the National...
A RECORD 680 athletes will converge on the National Stadium today, in a bid to either make Jamaica’s track and field team to the Olympics in Paris, France or to the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru. The World Under-20 Championships are to...
OVER THE years, the women’s 100 metres has been the most eagerly anticipated event at the JAAA PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships. Those years have featured a clash of world-class proportions with three of the most successful athletes at...
JAVORNE DUNKLEY amd Theianna-Lee Terrelonge are expected to top a record number of entries in the 100 metres at this year’s JAAA PUMA National Junior and Senior National Championships at the National Stadium. At the championships, the country’s top...
AFTER DOMINATING the women’ triple jump at the PUMA JAAA National Junior and Senior Championships (Trials) for the past decade, defending and many-time champion, Shanieka Ricketts, will be under tremendous pressure when she contests the event at...
JAMAICA ATHLETICS Administrative Association (JAAA) president, Garth Gayle, is a happy man. Gayle’s pleasure has come from the announcement that the country’s senior athletes who qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris will be given...
WHILE THE questions from the JAAA PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships (Trials) will undoubtedly be on what kind of team Jamaica will be sending to the Olympic Games in Paris, France, the name Skyler Franklin will make waves. Franklin, an...
ELAINE THOMPSON Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson have been the highlights over 100 metres at the JAAA Puma National Junior and Senior Championships (Trials) since 2017, the year Usain Bolt called it a day. This year, though, the...
ONE EVENT which will definitely have the crowd on their feet at next week’s JAAA/Puma National Junior and Senior Championships inside the National Stadium will be the men’s triple jump. Teenager Jaydon Hibbert, who thrilled the fans at the Racers...
JANIEVE RUSSELL has not been the best Jamaican over the 400-metre hurdles this season, but it wouldn’t count as the first time she has come from nowhere to win a National Championships. In fact, the national champion didn’t look like she would have...
