Published:Thursday | January 24, 2019 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Don’t look for sprint prospect Briana Williams to race here, there and everywhere in 2019. That’s because coach Ato Boldon plans to restrict her to 10 finals each in the 100 and the 200 metres. Boldon has imposed the cap for the second...
Published:Saturday | January 19, 2019 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Kai Chang, Jamaica's World Under-20 discus champion, has his eye on a Boys and Girls' Championships shot-discus double and a seat on the plane to Doha, Qatar, for the senior World Championships.Chang said that he's looking past his big victory last...
Published:Saturday | December 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
In 2016, Maurice Wignall, the dean of Jamaican 110 metres hurdlers, voiced a hope for the future."It would be exciting to see at least three or four Jamaicans at the very, very top," said Wignall, the nation's first two-time Olympic finalist in the...
Published:Thursday | December 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Dahlia Palmer, Jamaica's Caribbean cycling champion, says changes she made to her training have begun to work. That's her assessment after last week's London leg of the Cycling World Cup. Palmer says adjustments to her route helped her racing and...
Published:Friday | December 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Caribbean cycling champion Dahlia Palmer is excited, as she puts the polish in her preparations for the London leg of her sport’s World Cup. Palmer, whose first taste of the World Cup was in October, says she has learnt from that experience....
Published:Saturday | November 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Tough competition at last week's Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) World Cup meet in Canada has convinced Jamaica's Caribbean champion Dahlia Palmer that she needs to race the best more often.Competing in Milton at the second leg of the UCI World...
Published:Sunday | October 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Appreciative of the National Award she will receive today, record breaking swimmer Alia Atkinson says her success is the result of perseverance. Speaking in Kingston the day before the National Awards and Honours ceremony, Atkinson says she is...
Published:Saturday | September 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Emil Santos and Yasiris Ortiz of the Dominican Republic played the final shot of their country’s dominant performance at the 60th Caribbean Table Tennis Championships which ended on Saturday at the National Arena. World ranked at...
Published:Thursday | September 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
When the curtain fell on the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, hosts Russia stood proudly atop the medal table. Though the powerful American team had more medals overall, Russia had seven gold medals in its collection of 17.Two years later,...
Published:Saturday | September 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
When the 60th Caribbean Table Tennis Championships begins today at the National Arena, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico will start as favourites over eight other countries in the team competition. Fresh from podium finishes at this summer's...
Published:Saturday | September 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica closed the Caribbean Region Mini and Pre-Cadet Table Tennis Championships with three silver and five bronze medals. On the last day of the tournament which was played in the Dominican Republic, Azizi Johnson and Tsenaye Lewis put Jamaica in...
Published:Saturday | August 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
With the 2019 World Championships set for a later date than usual, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is considering a move of its National Championships as well.JAAA president Dr Warren Blake says his association has already...
Published:Saturday | August 4, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
When the Berlin Olympic Stadium opens its doors to the European Championships on August 7, a crew of sprinters with strong ties to Jamaica will be seeking glory in the men's 100 metres.Boys and Girls' Championships Class One record holder Zharnel...
Published:Saturday | July 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica has enjoyed an Indian summer, in the hurdling events this season and Dr Warren Blake, the president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, is delighted. He believes that the success seen in recent seasons and in 2018 are partly...
Published:Saturday | July 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Six-time Jamaica 800 metres champion Natoya Goule has two goals. She wants to win medals and to help Jamaica become a world power in middle distance running. That's the view of her coach, Mark Elliot, who believes that the next cycle of big...
Olympic 4x400m relay silver medallist Fitzroy Dunkley has been using local meets to prepare for a big race at Saturday's JN Racers Grand Prix. If his results at the last two JAAA All-Comers meets are anything to go by, Dunkley's preparation is going...
There will be a strong contingent from Jamaica at this weekend's Adidas Boost meet in Boston.Commonwealth Games silver medallists Hansle Parchment and Danielle Williams will take their places in stacked sprint hurdles fields. The 2011 World 100...
Maurice Wignall, the dean of Jamaican sprint hurdlers, has his eye on De'Jour Russell and is impressed by what he has seen.Wignall believes the youngster will need to be patient as he makes the transition from junior to senior competition but is...
Published:Saturday | April 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Gillian Russell, the 1998 Commonwealth Games 100 metres hurdles champion, says her young namesake De'Jour will learn a lot from competing at the 2018 Games in Australia. She sees great things in his future and describes the current World Under-18...
Noted coach Maurice Wilson had expressed the view that this week's Commonwealth Games will be a chance for the nation's track and field athletes to rebuild confidence.Wilson believes that the Games and the World Championships next year, will set the...
Published:Thursday | March 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Discus thrower Shadae Lawrence got her outdoor season off to a fine start last weekend. Lawrence, the 2017 NCAA champion, went long at a meet in San Antonio, Texas. Elsewhere, Jamaicans Clayton Brown, Janeek Brown, Shanice Love, Clive Pullen and...
Published:Saturday | February 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
CLAUDE BRYAN, agent of hurdler supreme Omar McLeod, has indicated that the hurdler's non-participation at next week's IAAF World Indoor Championship relates to a matter that the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) was aware...
Published:Friday | February 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Omar McLeod won't be in Birmingham to defend his 60 metre hurdles title at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. That's the word from the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA). The hurdler supreme's withdrawal was...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Ever since she was seven, Winsome Harris of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) has had reigning Common-wealth 400 metres hurdles champion Kaliese Spencer as her favourite athlete. Thanks to a stroke of luck, Harris has the good fortune to...
Published:Saturday | February 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Overcome by pride and joy, coach Michael Clarke was in no mood to talk after his Calabar High School team made history in the 4x400 metres at the Corporate Area Championships in Kingston last Friday.Anthony Carpenter, Christopher Taylor, Shemar...
