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...
OLYMPIC CHAMPION in 2016, Omar McLeod, has thrown his hat into the ring with the Olympics and just as importantly, Jamaica’s National Championships, fast approaching. Having run quite sparingly this season, yesterday, at the World Athletics World...
“I AM very pleased,” said Ackera Nugent after she clocked 12.52 seconds to win the NACAC New Life Invitational World Continental Silver meet on Sunday. Nugent is pleased that she is running fast in an event that promises to be one of the more...
AFTER AN unusually long wait, eight-time Olympic Games medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce finally got her season going on Saturday night at the National Stadium. Running at the French Foray meet, Fraser Pryce finished ahead of the back in a moderate...
Eight-time Olympic medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is set to open her season in the women’s 100 metres today at the JAAA Olympic French Foray III meet at the Stadium East. The meet starts at 4:30 p.m. With just two weeks to go to the JAAA/Puma...
AFTER FAILING to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games in the men’s 4x400 metres relays at the World Relays in the Bahamas, Jamaica’s relay team will be seeking a spot when they compete this Sunday at the New Life Invitational in Nassau, Bahamas....
A YEAR ago Racing Football Club of St Catherine came very close to qualifying for the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), the country’s top-flight competition, but lost out to Lime Hall of St Ann in the semifinals of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF...
SEVERAL top Jamaican athletes will be in action tomorrow at the New York Grand Prix World Continental Tour Gold meet at the Icahn Stadium. Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah will have her second outing this season when she lines...
National representative Ackelia Smith will be seeking the ‘jumps’ double today following her win in the women’s long jump final on Thursday night at the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Track and Field Championships in...
WAYNE PINNOCK has been one of the most consistent collegiate long jumpers over the past few years, and after winning the South Eastern Conference (SEC) long jump title last month for the University of Arkansas, he was favourite to go all the way...
TOMORROW AT the Hayward Field in Eugene, a record number of Jamaicans will line up for the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Track and Field Championships. Forty-eight Jamaicans, consisting of 25 men and 23 women, punched...
FOLLOWING DEFEAT last week in Oslo, Shericka Jackson, the double sprint Diamond League champion, returned to winning ways at yesterday’s Stockholm meeting. Competing in the women’s 200 metres, Jackson looked much better out of the blocks than in...
WORLD ATHLETICS Championships 400-metre hurdles bronze medallist Rushell Clayton continued her impressive form with another Diamond League success at yesterday’s Bislett Games. World leader in the event with her 53.72-second clocking at the Jamaica...
THIS PAST weekend saw the staging of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division One East and West Regional track and field meets held over two venues. Collegiate athletes booked their spots for the National Championships to be...
National discus thrower Roje Stona won the men’s event at the World Continental Tour Gold meet at Drake Stadium in Los Angeles last Saturday. Stona, who led from start to finish, won the event easily with a mark of 66.93 metres. Claudio Romero of...
Five Jamaicans scored wins at the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Track and Field Championships in Monroe, Los Angeles, at the weekend. Former Edwin Allen High School thrower Christopher Young, competing for Barton County...
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson and Rushell Clayton picked up wins at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco. Jackson, the 2023 World 200 metres champion and defending Diamond League champion over the half lap, looked a bit rusty in...
NATIONAL 400 metres champion Nickisha Pryce was in blistering form at the weekend. She clocked a personal best 49.32 seconds to win the 400m final at the South East Conference (SEC) Championships at the Percy Beard Track in Gainsville, Florida...
LONG JUMPER Carey McLeod won his pet event at the Doha Wanda Diamond League meet yesterday. Competing in the third leg of the Diamond League series, McLeod, the fourth-place finisher at last year’s Budapest World Athletics Championships, won the...
