ANOTHER YEAR, another title for the Mico University College senior netball team. The Connie Francis-coached team continued their dominance in Intercollegiate netball with a decisive 52-38 win over G.C. Foster College at the Leila Robinson netball...
AT THE National Championships in Jamaica, Rasheed Broadbell announced he was the country’s number-one sprint hurdler. Coming off an injury at the World Championships that kept him out of its 110-metre final a year earlier, Olympic champion Hansle...
A LARGE turnout is expected at today’s CB/UWI 5K set to get under way at 6:30 a.m. at the University of the West Indies with the start at Queensway, near the Assembly Hall. The event, which started in 2012, has attracted a large number of entrants...
MEET DIRECTOR of the Wesley Powell Benjamins Track and Field meet, David Riley, is of the belief that the event, which will be held on Excelsior High School’s nine-lane grass track on Saturday, December 9, will have long-term benefits. Riley, a...
TODAY’S STAGING of the Burger King 5K and Relay in Portmore, beginning at 6:30 a.m., is expected to be the biggest road race so far this season. Alfred ‘Frano’ Francis, managing director of Running Events Jamaica and meet director of today’s event...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL continued from where they left off in the first round of the ISSA Schoolgirl Netball competition, picking up wins in the second against Montego Bay High and Green Pond at Manning’s on Friday. The Carline Graham-Powell-coached...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
