SOUTH AFRICA’S Shaun Maswanganyi is heaping praises on American, Carl Lewis, for his massive improvement over the 100 and 200 metres in the past three years. The 23 year-old Maswanganyi, a semi-finalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in both the 100...
AN EXPECTED mega Women’s 100 metres clash at yesterday’s Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon, between Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah of Jamaica and world champion Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States turned into a mismatch with the latter...
FOLLOWING THE retirement of 400-metre specialist Akeem Bloomfield, two other senior representatives in Nathon Allen and Rasheed Dwyer have also called time on their careers. The 35-year-old Dwyer, 2011 World Student Games and 2014 Commonwealth...
NATIONAL 400-METRE record holder, and a man who has started this season impressively in Julian Forte, are both out of today’s Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco. The withdrawals still leave nine Jamaicans among those down to compete with the...
WHEN LOCAL high-school athletes competed at the third staging of the PUMA EAST Coast International Showcase in Maryland, USA, recently, it signalled the final competition of the season where they would represent their institutions. Competitions...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: COMPETING IN very cold and chilly conditions, St Jago’s Brianna Campbell and the Excelsior duo of Richard Hall and Rajawn Davis enjoyed big wins for Jamaican athletes at yesterday’s third staging of the Puma East Coast...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: EXCELSIOR, KINGSTON College (KC), and Jamaica College (JC) shared the spotlight on yesterday’s final day of the 128th staging of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, after winning one event each. Excelsior scored the first...
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: HYDEL HIGH School captain, Alliah Baker, was the star over the weekend at the Penn Relays in Pennsylvania after leading from the front to bring her team double success after winning the High School Girl’s Championships...
SPRINT HURDLERS Danielle Williams and Hansle Parchment bagged third-place finishes at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League in Suzhou, China. Williams, the world champion in the women’s 100-metre hurdles, clocked 12.74 seconds to finish behind Puerto...
WORLD INDOOR 60-metre bronze medallist, Ackeem Blake, had the best finish of the nine Jamaicans competing at yesterday’s opening Diamond League meet in Xiamen, China, after finishing third in the men’s 100 metres. Blake was third in the 100 metres...
THE COUNTRY’S top high-school athletes hope to continue their impressive form this season at the fast-becoming-popular East Coast Showcase where they will battle with their United States, Haitian, Belizean, Caymanian, and Canadian counterparts. The...
JAMAICA’S ATHLETES found the going tough at yesterday’s Miramar Invitational Meet at the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida, with sprint hurdler Tyler Mason scoring the only win from the island in the men’s 110-metre hurdles. Mason, an alternate in...
DOUBLE GOLD medallists littered the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships inside the National Stadium on yesterday’s final day, eventually claimed by Edwin Allen High School and Kingston College (KC). KC provided a dominant showing. They...
OVER THE years, overseas-based athletes have made their presence felt at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, the trend set to continue this week. In the past, it was mostly athletes from the Caribbean who participated at...
AT THE recently held ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships launch, CEO of GraceKennedy, title sponsor of the Championships, Don Wehby, revealed that record breakers in the 200 metres would receive a financial boost. Champs,...
AFTER FAILING to win any of the 4x100-metre relays last year, the Michael Dyke-coached Edwin Allen girls were the most successful team in 4x100m relays at yesterday’s Gibson McCook Relays, winning the Class 1 and 11 events. After a minute of...
BRIANA WILLIAMS was the toast of the SW Isaac-Henry Invitational yesterday at the National Stadium despite facing strong winds when she claimed the 60 metres ahead of Janeek Brown. Running into a negative 1.5-metre per second headwind, Williams...
ONE OF the most popular track and field events on the local calendar, the Gibson-McCook Relays will have its 51st staging next Saturday inside the National Stadium starting at 9:30 a.m. with the preliminary round of the high school boys’ 4x400m...
ROSHAWN CLARKE, of Swept Track Club, and Antonio Watson, of Racers Track Club, treated a crowd at the Camperdown Classic inside the National Stadium yesterday to a dramatic dogfight in the invitational men’s 400 metres. Drawn in lane five, Clarke,...
JAMAICA COLLEGE’S (JC’s) 800-metre athletes, led by Kemarrio Bygrave in Class 1, were in a dominant mood at yesterday’s Queen’s/Grace Jackson Invitational inside the National Stadium. Bygrave, the defending champion in the event at the ISSA/...
THEIANNA LEE Terrelonge, Edwin Allen High School’s outstanding sprinter, was at it once again at yesterday’s 41st staging of the JAAA PUMA Anderson-Fuller Development meet. Fresh off her personal best of 11.30 seconds the previous week at the Pure...
THE PAST year could and maybe should be termed fantastic for the country’s senior netballers with outstanding individual and team performances throughout. The Sunshine Girls participated in three overseas tournaments, with their biggest performance...
JAMAICA’S YOUNG athletes continued showing their prowess on the world stage in track and field in the past year with excellent performances, proving the country has a bright future in the sport. In 2023, Jamaica’s young men came to the fore, in...
JEREMY DELISSER, the man who jumpstarted the career of ace triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert, is proud but not surprised that his former charge copped the Bowerman Award for an outstanding first season at the University of Arkansas. “I am feeling proud...
ONE OF the surprises in the rural ISSA Schoolgirl Netball competition this season was the performance of May Day High School’s senior team. Under the guidance of coach Janet Hunter, they were semifinalists in the competition, finishing fourth after...
