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Published:Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

LAST YEAR Glenmuir High School had their best performances in schoolgirl netball, their junior team losing to Holmwood Technical High School in the final while their senior team stopped Manchester High for their first title. Playing at home on...

Published:Sunday | October 22, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

THIS PAST track and field season is one which Edwin Allen coach Michael Dyke may well want to forget. It was miserable. Edwin Allen High’s girls were found wanting, the Frankfield-based school playing second fiddle to Hydel High School out of Ferry...

Published:Sunday | October 8, 2023 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

OLYMPIAN BERTLAND Cameron, and the winner of the men’s 400 metres title at the inaugural World Championships in 1983 in Helsinki Finland, is back at his alma mater St Jago High, as head coach for the boy’s track and field programme. Cameron took...

Published:Sunday | October 8, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WITH RAIN putting paid to their first two matches, former senior schoolgirls’ netball champions Camperdown were in a no-nonsense mood at home on Friday, overwhelming St Andrew High School 41 -3 in their first game of the season in Zone A....

Published:Sunday | October 1, 2023 | 12:06 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

DESPITE LOSING several members from last year’s successful team, there were no troubles for the Nardia Hanson-coached St Hugh’s High School junior team in their opening game of the Urban ISSA schoolgirl netball competition. Playing at home in Zone...

Published:Sunday | September 17, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

SHERICKA JACKSON’S world record push and double Diamond League title attempt will be the highlight of the eight Jamaicans on show at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon today. One of those eight, Danielle Williams, will be hoping to end her...

Published:Sunday | September 17, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WORLD ATHLETICS Championships 100 metres silver medallist, Shericka Jackson, earned some redemption for herself at the Prefontaine Classics in Eugene, Oregon yesterday. Jackson had found herself second best in the event, which doubles as the Wanda...

Published:Sunday | September 10, 2023 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

SHANIEKA RICKETTS’ personal best of 15.01-metre leap to win the women’s triple jump at the Allianz Memorial van Damme meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Friday came as no surprise to her coach and husband, Kerry Lee Ricketts. “Honestly, I am not...

Published:Sunday | September 3, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

RUSHELL CLAYTON and Hansle Parchment stole the show at the Xiamen Diamond League in China yesterday. The two led a good day for Jamaicans at the Diamond League meet, with Andrenette Knight, Candice McLeod, Janieve Russell, and Kishane Thompson also...

Published:Sunday | September 3, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING HER World Championships win in the women’s 100 metres and another easy win in the shortest of the sprints at Thursday’s Zurich Diamond League in Switzerland, the United States’ Sha’Carri Richardson will be hoping to continue her winning...

Published:Sunday | August 27, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FORTY YEARS ago in Helsinki, Bertland Cameron became the first world champion in the men’s 400 metres, and when Antonio Watson gave the country what was only its second success in the event last Thursday in Budapest, Cameron was there first hand to...

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FOR THE past two World Athletics Championships, Jamaica’s athletes have finished in the top three on both the medal tally and points tables. In 2019 in Doha, the country picked up 12 medals, including three gold, five silver and four bronze....

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

OVER THE years, the country’s athletes have had good results in relays at the World Athletics Championships, a trend that looks likely to continue in Budapest. In Doha in 2019, the country had medals in four of five relays, with the women mining...

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2023 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FANS WILL not have to wait long to witness the most eagerly anticipated event of the Budapest World Athletics Championships, as the Women’s 100 metres final is down to be contested on Monday’s third day of the meet. In what will be a clash of the...

Published:Sunday | August 6, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA FAILED to add to the gold medal mined by Alana Reid in the girls’ 100 metres on Friday’s opening day of the Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, yesterday. On yesterday’s second day of competition, the...

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2023 | 12:16 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FOUR YEARS ago, 27-year-old Shashalee Forbes represented the country in the women’s 200 metres at the Doha World Championships where she dropped out at the semifinal stage. In one of the most competitive women’s 100 metres at the JAAA/PUMA National...

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2023 | 1:44 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WHEN COMPETITION gets underway on Thursday’s opening day of the National Senior Championships (Trials) inside the National Stadium, one of the events to be contested will be the preliminary round of the women’s 100 metres. Known as the blue riband...

Published:Sunday | June 18, 2023 | 1:58 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

IN JUST over three weeks’ time, the country’s top senior athletes will be seeking places on the national team to this summer’s 19th World Athletics Championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 19 to 27. The Jamaica National Senior...

Published:Sunday | June 11, 2023 | 1:23 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN ATHLETES were in sparkling form on Friday’s final day of competition for men at the NCAA Division One Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas, after picking up three wins and a second-place finish. Former Jamaica College...

Published:Sunday | May 14, 2023 | 1:50 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FORMER KINGSTON College jumper Jaydon Hibbert was on fire in Baton Rouge yesterday on the final day of competion of the South East Conference Division One Collegiate Track and Field Championships, producing a world-leading mark of 17.87 metres to...

Published:Sunday | May 7, 2023 | 1:52 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: HYDEL HIGH School’s Alana Reid was the star at yesterday’s Puma East Coast International Showcase in Landover, Maryland. The world number-one junior over 100 metres stormed to 11.01 seconds to win the event, running her...

Published:Sunday | April 30, 2023 | 1:51 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: HYDEL HIGH School’s girls, competing in front of a large crowd at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays here, gave Jamaican fans much to celebrate after victories in the 4x100 and 4x400 metres saw them leave the Carnival...

Published:Sunday | April 30, 2023 | 12:23 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: ON FRIDAY’S second day of competition at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays inside the Franklin Field Stadium, Rhodes Hall High School’s Aaliyah Willary was special. One day before her 15th birthday, and competing in...

Published:Sunday | April 23, 2023 | 1:56 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WHILE MANY fans at this week’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia, which starts on Thursday, will be focused on relays, Jamaicans should also pay attention to the field where athletes hailing from the island should enjoy good results. Calabar High School’...

Published:Sunday | April 16, 2023 | 1:33 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WHEN DELANO Todd crossed the finish line in second place for silver in the boys’ under-17 800 metres to pick up a silver medal at the recently held Carifta Games in The Bahamas, it marked not one, but two historic feats for the 16-year-old...

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