Published:Sunday | February 5, 2017 | 6:47 PMHubert Lawrence
Tyrese Reid of Spot Valley High school is chasing the 30 year-old ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships record in the Class One 800m.Speaking after Reid had won his 1500m races at the JAAA/Jamalco Development meet at Halse Hall on...
Published:Friday | February 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Calabar High and Edwin Allen High turn into 2017 with growing Boys and Girls' Championships title streaks on the line. Calabar have gone five straight and Edwin Allen three.However, while Michael Dyke's Edwin Allen conglomerate looks unstoppable,...
Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2017 | 4:33 PMHubert Lawrence
Only one Hydel High School student-athlete has ever won gold in the 400m at the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships.If the results of last Saturday's St Elizabeth High School (STETHS) Invitational are anything to go by, that...
Published:Saturday | January 28, 2017 | 3:43 PMHubert Lawrence
National long jump champion Chanice Porter is going pro. Now out of eligibility at the University of Georgia, the baby-faced Porter is looking to the future, starting with the 2017 World Championships in London.Porter is also very happy for her...
Published:Saturday | January 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Kevin Nedrick of Petersfield was the standout performer at the 34th STETHS Invitational held at the school in Santa Cruz yesterday.First, he extended his season's best to 56.21 metres in the Class One discus. Then, with a peaceful afternoon breeze...
Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 5:53 PMHubert Lawrence
Last Saturday's Central Hurdles and Relays had an international flavour as German Julian Howard opened his 2017 season with a win in the long jump. Howard is here visiting his grandparents, but has kept in shape by training at the University of the...
Published:Friday | January 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
When Mario Forsythe lines up today to run the Olympic Development 400 metres at the second McKenley-Wint Classic at Calabar High School, he will open a new chapter in his sprint career. It will be his first race as a member of the Akan Track Club....
Published:Thursday | January 19, 2017 | 2:23 PMHubert Lawrence
Fedrick Dacres, the Pan-American Games discus-throw champion, will return to Excelsior High School for tomorrow's Big Shot Invitational. Dacres, who opened his 2017 season with a throw of 64.79 metres last Saturday in Mandeville, has produced fine...
Published:Tuesday | January 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
2004 Olympic relay gold medal winner Aleen Bailey is still running and hopes to continue her track and field career once injuries allow her to do so.Now 36, Bailey is working to regain full fitness and will make her mind up about staying on track in...
Published:Sunday | January 15, 2017 | 1:14 PMHubert Lawrence
Kevin Nedrick of Petersfield High School did a throwing double at the Manchester High School/Charlie Fuller Memorial on Saturday but his Class One shot put victory had patrons buzzing. With reigning ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships...
Published:Sunday | January 15, 2017 | 5:33 PMHubert Lawrence
Olympic shot put finalist O'Dayne Richards is optimistic about his 2017 prospects and is looking forward to competition with the likes of Olympic champion Ryan Crouser and World Champion Joe Kovacs. Speaking in Mandeville before he won the shot put...
Published:Friday | January 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Proposed changes to the structure of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships will aid in the development of Jamaica's track and field and safeguard student athletes. That's the view of George...
Published:Thursday | January 12, 2017 | 5:48 PMHubert Lawrence
World and Olympic relay silver medal winner Javon Francis is aiming to be in the 400-metre final at this year's World Championships in London, England.Francis, who was in the 400m semi-finals at the Olympics last year, said his training is going...
Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Shericka Jackson is making a habit of peaking right on time. In 2015, the young 400-metre ace set a personal best to win a bronze medal at the World Championships. In the just-concluded Olympic year, she did again and earned a repeat nomination for...
Published:Sunday | January 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
RJR Sports Foundation National Sportsman of the Year nominee Usain Bolt made history again in 2016 with a dominating sprint double at the Olympic Games. The 30 year-old Trelawny native parlayed times of 9.81 seconds and...
Published:Thursday | January 5, 2017 | 3:48 PMHubert Lawrence
RJR Sports Foundation National Sportswoman of the Year 2016 nominee Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce strode into the Olympic year with a great 2015 season behind her and important goals ahead. In the year that had just ended, she had retained her World 100-...
Published:Thursday | January 5, 2017 | 6:00 PMHubert Lawrence
Athens Olympics sprint relay gold medallist Aileen Bailey has described 2016 RJR Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year nominee Elaine Thompson as an amazing young lady.Bailey believes that Thompson will do well in the future and that she could...
Published:Tuesday | January 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the most successful female 100 metre runner of all-time, has singled out American Carmelita Jeter as her fiercest rival. Fraser-Pryce described the American as an athlete, who forced her always to be at her best. During the...
Published:Saturday | December 31, 2016 | 3:16 PMHubert Lawrence
TRACK AND FIELD NEWS, the respected US magazine, has selected Wayde van Niekerk and Anita Wlodarczyk as its Athletes of the Year for 2016. Wlodarczyk, Poland's Olympic hammer throw champion and van Niekerk, the South African who won the Olympic 400...
Published:Wednesday | December 28, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Jamaica's Elaine Thompson has been voted International Female Athlete of the Year by readers of the British publication Athletics Weekly. Thompson, Olympic champion at 100 and 200 metres, took the award ahead of American 100 metre hurdler Kendra...
Published:Friday | December 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Bert Cameron, the elder statesman of the 400 metres, is full of praise for the young Jamaicans who currently compete in his pet event.Cameron, the 1983 World 400 metres champion, is also encouraging the likes of...
Published:Thursday | December 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
As can be expected, Bert Cameron watched the Olympic men's 400 metre final and the performance of South African Wayde van Niekerk with great interest. Even now, four months later, Cameron, the first World Champion in the one-lap event is still...
Published:Tuesday | December 20, 2016 | 2:05 PMHubert Lawrence
Marvin Watts, the last Jamaican to compete in the men's 800m at the World Championships, believes that the country can do well in the two-lap event. His advice to aspiring 800m men is to move to a middle-distance training programme when their...
Published:Saturday | December 17, 2016 | 1:17 PMHubert Lawrence
THE 2011 World Youth 100m champion Odail Todd is rebuilding his athletic career and continuing his studies at the G.C. Foster College for Physical Education. This follows three injury-ridden years at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Now 22...
Published:Friday | December 16, 2016 | 8:07 PMHubert Lawrence
In the last three years, Calabar High School, Kingston College (KC), and St Jago high school have all run promising times in the 4x800 metre relay. In the same period, Calabar, St Elizabeth Technical and St Jago have won the eight-lap event at the...
