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Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 8:18 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

In a stacked men's 110-metre hurdles field, Commonwealth Games champion Rasheed Broadbell produced a personal best and world leading 12.94 seconds to become Jamaica’s national champion. In what was a very competitive event at the JAAA/PUMA National...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 8:11 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Like she did in the 100 metres, Shericka Jackson made it clear there was no doubt she was the best in the country, defending her JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships title with a world lead inside the National Stadium, no less....

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 7:46 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Enrique Webster of St Elizabeth Technical High School ran an intelligent race to peg back early leader, Jaheene Bell of St Jago High, registering a win the in the boys’ under-20 400 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 6:52 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Megan Tapper’s excellent record at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships continued today as the Elite Performance athlete held off a late rush from Ackera Nugent to win her third national senior title in 12.64 seconds. The...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 6:27 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Former National Champion, Sean Bailey, the country's number-one man in the 400 metres this season was forced to stave off the late challenge of Antonio Watson to regain his title at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 6:07 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Former Clarendon College quarter miler, Dejanea Oakley, who now competes for the University of Texas, outclassed her opponents for an impressive win in the girls’ under-20 400 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 5:58 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

It was smooth sailing for Lacovia High School’s Sabrina Dockery, the lanky teenager easily winning the girls’ under-18 400 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the National Stadium this evening. Dockery won in 55....

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 5:49 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

St Catherine High School’s Kitiana Headley pulled off a big upset in the girls’ under-20 800 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships after turning back the consistent Kishay Rowe of Alphonsus Davis inside the National...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 5:46 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Rashid Bowen of St Elizabeth Technical High School used a late burst to capture the boys’ under-18 800 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the National Stadium this evening. Bowne clocked one minute, 57.73...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 3:50 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Cornwall College’s Kasean Jordan Rhooms was crowned the first champion on today's final day of competion of the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the National Stadium. Competing in the boys’ under-18 triple jump finals where...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 2:20 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

In the only final involving senior athletes in the first session of todays final day of the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the National Stadium, Nayoka Clunis captured the women's hammer throw. The only competitor in the...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 2:08 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

St Catherine High School’s Able Mills was an impressive winner in the girls’ under-18 shot put final this morning at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships inside the National Stadium. Mills separated herself from her rivals after...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:59 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

St Elizabeth Technical High School’s Habibah Harris is the fastest qualifier through to the girls’ under-20 100-metre hurdles final following preliminary round action this morning at the JAAA/PUMA National Senior and Junior Championships indide the...

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2023 | 12:16 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING CHAMPION Shericka Jackson took the spotlight in the women’s 100 metres final as she produced a massive personal best (PR) to retain her title in a personal best and world-leading 10.65 seconds at the JAAA/Puma MCGES National Senior and...

Published:Friday | July 7, 2023 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

YOHAN BLAKE, last year’s national champion in the men’s 100 metres, was disqualified for a false start in the preliminary round on the opening day of the JAAA Puma/MCGES National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium in Kingston...

Published:Thursday | July 6, 2023 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S top junior and senior athletes will be involved in some explosive clashes as they seek places on the various national teams at the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) Puma MCGES National Junior and Senior Championships,...

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2023 | 1:47 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN THE four-day JAAA/Puma MCGES National Junior and Senior Championships get under way tomorrow inside the National Stadium, the nation’s top under-18 and under-20 athletes will be seeking spots on the national team for three overseas meets The...

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2023 | 1:29 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Alana Reid’s fantastic season continued recently at the FUSE Sprint Championships in Japan’s Tottori Yanate Sports Park Athletics Stadium. Reid won the Women’s A 100 metres race in a meet record 11.17 seconds. The young Jamaican sprinter Reid won...

Published:Monday | July 3, 2023 | 1:16 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Yohan Blake, the 2011 World 100-metres champion, will be hoping to make it back-to-back titles at the National Championships when he faces promising young sprinters Ackeem Blake and Oblique Seville in the 100 metres this weekend at the National...

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2023 | 12:53 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The men’s 110 metres hurdles, in recent years, has been one of the most successful events on the world stage for Jamaica, and the event is expected to attract a lot of attention at next weekend’s JAAA National Championships. With places up for...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:36 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN the women’s 100 metres hurdles final is contested at the National Senior Championships in just over two weeks, a new champion will be crowned as defending champion and national record holder Britany Anderson will be absent. The...

Published:Saturday | June 24, 2023 | 12:35 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Eighteen Jamaican athletes, including promising young sprinter Ackeem Blake, will be in action at the USATF New York Grand Prix at Ichan Stadium today. Blake, who is having a dream season so far, will compete in what is expected to be a fierce...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 1:24 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

BLACKSTONEDGE, St Ann: MORE THAN 250 adults and children in the St Ann South Eastern districts of Whitehall, Mosley Hall, Dillon Town, and Blackstonedge have benefited from free medical care and aid from the overseas-based Alliance of Jamaican and...

Published:Thursday | June 22, 2023 | 1:46 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ONE OF the events garnering a lot of attention ahead of the National Senior Championships, to be held at the National Stadium in two weeks’ time, is the men’s discus. The attention surrounds the trio of Fedrick Dacres, Traves Smikle, and Roje Stona...

Published:Thursday | June 22, 2023 | 12:41 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

More than 250 residents in the St Ann South constituency comprising children and adults from the districts of Whitehall, Mosley Hall, Dillon Town and Blackstonedge benefited from free medical care and aid provided by overseas-based charity the...

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