Published:Saturday | August 8, 2015 | 6:59 PMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA increased its medal tally at the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Senior Athletics Championships in San JosÈ, Costa Rica, by two on yesterday's second day of the three-day meet.Bobby Gaye Wilkins-Gooden and Ricardo...
Published:Friday | August 7, 2015 | 5:56 PMRaymond Graham
Triple jumper Shanieke Thomas gave Jamaica its first medal at the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Track and Field Championships in Costa Rica yesterday.Thomas produced a personal best and championships record of 14.23 metres...
Published:Monday | August 3, 2015 | 7:10 PMRaymond Graham
AFTER mixed results from two junior teams at international meets over the past month, head coach of the Pan Am team that earned 13 medals, Michael Carr, thinks good planning for next year's 16th World Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia, is needed...
Published:Monday | August 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
The successful Jamaican team to the XV111 Junior Pan Am Athletics Championships returned to the island yesterday afternoon, after making up for the disappointment by their younger counterparts at the World Youth Championships a few weeks earlier.The...
Published:Sunday | August 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica mined gold in the boys' sprint relay at the Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton, Canada last night.The quartet of Seanie Selvin, Shivnarine Smalling, Hujaye Cornwall and Xandre Blake clocked 40.15 seconds to give Jamaica its first...
Published:Thursday | July 30, 2015 | 5:59 PMRaymond Graham
NATIONAL Junior 100 metres hurdle record holder Deashon Gordon will lead 14 Jamaicans into action on today's opening day of competition at the XVIII Pan American Junior Championships, which will be held at the Foote Field on the University of...
Published:Wednesday | July 29, 2015 | 5:31 PMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA'S junior athletes who will start competition at the XVIII Junior Pan Am Championships tomorrow have reportedly settled well at their base at the Lister Centre on the campus of the University of Alberta.The Jamaican team, which comprised 36...
Published:Sunday | July 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica had mixed fortune on last Saturday's final night of competition at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.The women picked up two relay silver medals, while the men failed in two bids to add to the tally.Jamaica finished fourth in...
Published:Sunday | July 26, 2015 | 8:36 PMRaymond Graham
Jamaica's team to the July 31 to August 2 Junior Pan American Championships in Edmonton, Canada, will leave the island today.Head coach, Michael Carr, the man who was at the helm when Jamaica topped the world at the World Youth Championships two...
Published:Friday | July 24, 2015 | 6:34 PMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA increased its medal tally by two at yesterday's Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.Rasheed Dwyer picked up silver in the men's 200 metres while Simone Facey captured the bronze in the women's equivalent. With just one day of competition...
Published:Thursday | July 23, 2015 | 7:55 PMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA'S medal tally went up by two at the Pan American Games in Toronto yesterday.Fedrick Dacres won gold in the men's discus while it was bronze for Roxroy Cato in the men's 400 metres hurdles.The day was also highlighted by a massive personal...
Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2015 | 8:29 PMRaymond Graham
Sherone Simpson stormed through late to win the gold medal in the women's 100 metres at the Pan American Games in Canada last night.It was Jamaica's second track and field gold at the Games. On Tuesday, O'Dayne Richards won the men's shot put....
Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2015 | 7:15 PMRaymond Graham
COMMONWEALTH Games shot put champion, O'Dayne Richards, struck gold at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada yesterday.Richards won the event in a meet record and season best 21.69 metres. His mark beat the 21.30m set by Canada's Dylan Armstrong...
Published:Monday | July 20, 2015 | 5:25 PMRaymond Graham
WITH Jamaica collecting just one medal so far at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto - a silver from swimmer Alia Atkinson - things are expected to get better when competition in track and field will get under way this morning at the CIBC...
Published:Friday | July 10, 2015 | 5:41 PMRaymond Graham
GWANGJU, KOREAJamaica struck gold at the World University Games (WUG) in Gwanju, South Korea yesterday.The big winner was national 100-metre hurdles champion Danielle Williams who won the event in 12.78 seconds ahead of Russia's Nina Marozova (12.83...
Published:Thursday | July 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
GWANGJU, KOREA: JAMAICA won two silver medals on yesterday's second day of the 28th World University Summer Games in Gwangju, South Korea.The University of Technology (UTech) duo of Shimayra Williams and Kimarley Brown picked up silver medals after...
GWANGJU, Korea: It was a good second day for Jamaica at the 28th Universiade Summer Games in Gwangju, Korea today as the country's athletes mined two silver medals in the 100 metres through the University of Technology duo of Shimarya...
Published:Sunday | July 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
GWANGJU, South Korea:Danny Hawthorne, the head track and field coach of Jamaica's team to the 28th Summer Universiade Games in Gwangju, South Korea, expects some good performances from the 10 athletes who have travelled to the meet.Track and field...
Published:Saturday | July 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
GWANGJU, Korea:JAMAICA'S team at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea, suffered a major setback as 400 metres hurdler, Andre Clarke, has been ruled out of the meet due to an injury.Clarke sustained a broken shoulder bone during a...
Published:Wednesday | July 1, 2015 | 4:02 PMRaymond Graham
A week ago at the National Senior Athletics Championships, both Javon Francis and Rusheen McDonald treated the crowd to an epic battle in the men's 400 metres.Francis held on to win his first senior title in 44.70 seconds as McDonald ran on late for...
Published:Wednesday | July 1, 2015 | 6:03 PMRaymond Graham
The line-up for the women's 100 metres at Saturday's Diamond League meeting in Paris will be very hot, with five of the women already dipping under 11 seconds this season.This group is headed by joint world leaders Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica...
Published:Monday | June 29, 2015 | 5:25 PMRaymond Graham
FOLLOWING her victory at Sunday's National Senior Championships in the women's 100 metres hurdles in 12.71 seconds, Danielle Williams, who captured her second national title in three years, will be headlining Jamaica's team to the World University...
Published:Saturday | June 27, 2015 | 2:20 PMRaymond Graham
STEPHEN FRANCIS, head coach of MVP track club, told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday that the decision for Elaine Thompson - his new sprinting sensation - to compete only in the 200 metres and not the 100m as well as the ongoing JAAA Supreme Ventures...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Asafa Powell were at their best on the second day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championship inside the National Stadium with impressive wins. Fraser-Pryce...
Published:Wednesday | June 24, 2015 | 4:56 PMRaymond Graham
FOLLOWING successes in 2013 and last year, Andrew Riley will be hoping to make it three from three when he competes in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the weekend JAAA/SVL National Senior Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.The final of...
