Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres had to settle for fifth place in the final of the men’s discus at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Dacres produced a championship best effort of 66.72 metres in an event won by Sweden’s Daniel Stahl...
Jamaica’s pair of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson mined silver and bronze medals respectively in the final of the women’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The silver-medal winning Jackson crossed...
Despite a sluggish start, Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment delivered the country’s first medal, a silver in the 110-metre hurdles, at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The fast-finishing Parchment took the silver medal in a time of...
Candice McLeod will be Jamaica's lone representative in the final of the women's 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. McLeod, competing in heat one, finished fourth in semi-final one in 50.62 seconds but...
Jamaica’s medal hopes in the men’s 110-metre hurdles at these World Athletics Championships will rest solely on the shoulders of Hansle Parchment, the Olympic champion the only survivor through to the final. Parchment’s teammate, Orlando Bennett...
Jamaica’s hope of securing a medal in the men’s triple jump was dashed earlier today with Jaydon Hibbert suffering a hamstring injury on his first attempt at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Hibbert had qualified for the...
Debutant Roshawn Clarke smashed the World Under-20 record on his way to qualifying for the final of the 400-metre hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary earlier today. Clarke, running in semi-final heat three, against...
Jamaica’s trio of Rushell Clayton, Janieve Russell and Andrenette Knight safely booked their spots in the semi-final round of the women’s 400-metre hurdles after cruising through qualification at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest,...
There were mixed results for Jamaica’s long jumping duo of Tissana Hickling and Ackelia Smith this morning at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Smith had to rely on her final jump, cutting the sand at 6.78 metres, to...
Jamaica’s Adelle Tracey, the country’s lone representative in the women’s 1500 metres at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, booked her spot in the semi-final round of that event this morning. Tracey, running in the...
National shot put champion Rajindra Campbell is safely through to the final of the men’s shot put at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Campbell’s final throw 20.83 metres is the 10th best throw heading into the 12-man...
Jamaica’s quartet of Demish Gaye, Malik James-King, Stacey-Ann Williams and Natoya Goule-Toppin failed to progress beyond the qualifying stage of the 4x400-metre mixed relays as action at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary began....
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Boxing Association (JBA), Stephen Jones, believes the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Fight Nights series, which had its second staging at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex on Saturday night, is a solid platform for local...
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Keeara Whyte was the top performer on Saturday’s second day of the 2023 National Junior and Senior Table Tennis Championships at the National Indoor Sports Centre. Whyte showed her class as she won both the under-13 and under-...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Table Tennis Association, Andrew Lue, says the 2023 National Junior and Senior Championships, which is being held at the National Indoor Sports Centre, is shaping up to be an enthralling tournament based on what he saw from...
AS THE 2023 Jamaica Rising Stars Camp enters day four of six, Wayne Dawkins, technical director of the national under-17 basketball programme and founder of PHASE1 Academy, organisers of the event, believes that the information to the young players...
THE future of the Commonwealth Games in modern-day sports is being put under increasing pressure and is yet again under the microscope following the latest news that the Canadian province of Alberta, the only bidder for the 2030 staging, has...
World University Games 100 metres gold medallist Kadrian Goldson has one regret after he won one of two medals for the small Jamaican team which went to Chengdu, China. Jamaica’s second medal came from discus thrower Kai Chang while the third...
JAMAICA SHOWED defensive astuteness at the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup and are yet to concede a goal. When compared to the 12 they conceded in 2019 at the first time of the asking, the results are astounding. What are the Reggae Girlz doing...
IT’S AN ‘indescribable feeling’. Those were the sentiments of Jamaica’s 800 metres runner Navasky Anderson following his record-breaking performance at the DC Track Championships hosted at Thomas O. Berg Track on Sunday in Washington, DC. The 23...
RETIRED sprint legend Usain Bolt could venture into the coaching arena sometime in the future. Bolt, widely regarded as the greatest sprinter of all time, called time on his illustrious career back in 2017 after the London World Championships,...
WITH the 2023 Netball World Cup set to tip off in Cape Town, South Africa today, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association Christopher Samuda is hopeful that he’ll be able to witness the elevation of the sport to the Olympic stage. Samuda...
NATIONAL UNDER-20 goalkeeper coach, Andrew Sewell, believes a one-week camp aimed at improving local goalkeepers was a success. Hosted at St George’s College’s Winchester Park, goalkeepers were put through various drills in order to achieve...
FORMER national shot put record holder O’Dayne Richards has hailed the exploits of compatriot and reigning national champion Rajindra Campbell who broke his six-year-old record last Saturday. Competing at the Meeting de Madrid, Campbell threw 22....
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Squash Association, Karen Anderson, has heaped praise on the 16-member team that represented the island at the National Lotteries Authority Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships which was hosted in...
