JAMAICA’S GARY Card and Deandre Daley have the biggest chance of winning a World Under-20 Championships 100 metres title for the island since Dexter Lee defended his title 14 years ago. The World Under-20 Championships begin in Lima, Peru, in a...
WHEN RELAY action gets underway next week at the World Under-20 Championships in Peru, Jamaica’s female team will be seeking to make it three wins in a row following success in Nairobi and Colombia. On both occasions, the Jamaican girls produced...
Jamaica will be seeking to pocket back-to-back global titles in the discus when the five-day World Under-20 Championships gets under way on August 27 in Peru. Jamaica will be among 134 nations at the championships which has attracted more than 1,...
Paris Olympic Games representative Alana Reid and Wolmer’s Boys’ sprinter Gary Card have been named by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) in a squad of 43 athletes for the World Under 20 Championships in Lima, Peru,...
FORMER ST Elizabeth Technical High School quarter-miler, Dennis Blake, made the first of two Olympic Games appearances for his country in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, and four years later in Atlanta. The 53-year-old spoke about the highs and lows of...
JAMAICA’S ATHLETES have had good results over the years at the Olympic Games in track events, especially in the sprints. However, it has not been the same in field events as since the country’s first participation at the Games in 1948 only James...
AFTER A brilliant run for gold in the 400 metres at the inaugural staging of the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in 1983, Jamaica’s Bertland Cameron was the hot favourite to win the event the following year at the Los Angeles...
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...
