LED BY Navasky Anderson’s second-place finish in the men’s 800 metres final, a new personal best 1:45.02 seconds and new national record, Jamaica’s males had three top-three finishes on Friday’s final day of competition for men at the NCAA Division...
AFTER VICTORIES in 2017 and 2018 in the High School Girls’ Championship of America 4x400m at the Penn Relays, the Corey Bennett-coached Hydel High School look well set to return to winning ways this Friday at 4:05 p.m. Jamaican time and make up for...
THE THOUSANDS of fans expected inside the Franklin Field Stadium at this weekend Penn Relays in Philadelphia are in store for something very special in the High School Boys’ Championships of America 4x400m relay finals, which is scheduled for 3 p.m...
DOHA 2019 World Championships silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd was the only Jamaica winner at yesterday’s Mt Sac Relays in Walnut, California, winning the women’s shot put with a heave of 18.92 metres. Thomas-Dodd connected her winning mark on...
VETERAN 400-METRE specialist Stephenie Ann McPherson picked up the country’s first medal on yesterday’s second day of competition at the World Athletics Indoor Champonships in Belgrade, Serbia, as the Tokyo Olympic Games finalist produced a...
WHEN EDWIN Allen’s Class One relay quartet of Serena Cole, Brandy Hall and the Clayton twins, Tia and Tina, broke the Gibson McCook Relays and, in the process, produced a world high-school record of 43.37 seconds, surpassing their old record of 43....
AFTER A year’s absence, the very popular Gibson McCook Relays, the 45th staging, will return this Saturday inside the National Stadium with a new format, a package lasting just over four hours with finals only, starting at 1 p.m., with the high...
SEVERAL OF the country’s collegiate and professional athletes were in good form on Friday at several Indoor Track and Field meets in the United States. There were wins for Daniellle Williams, Ackera Nugent, Kavia Francis, Lamara Distin and Nigel...
COACHES MICHAEL Dyke, Bertland Cameron and Maurice Wilson are all elated with the news that fans will be allowed back into the National Stadium for the Gibson McCook Relays, calling the government decision ‘a step in the right direction.’ IT HAS...
TWO OF the country’s most promising young athletes, sprinter Briana Williams and hurdler Britany Anderson, have been added to the line-up at the 114th Millrose Games, scheduled to take place at the Armory New Balance Track and Field Centre in New...
WHEN THE 2022 track and field season began yesterday with the staging of the PureWater/R. Danny Williams Invitational Meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College, it will mark the start of a busy season for the country’s junior athletes, who...
Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah will be seeking to get back to winning ways when she runs in the women’s 100 metres at today’s Wanda Diamond League meet in Paris, France. Thompson-Herah was edged out by compatriot Shelly-Ann...
Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah underlined her status as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time with an unbelievable 10.54-second clocking to win the Women’s 100m at the Prefontaine Classic, a leg of the Wanda Diamond...
One of the greatest women’s 100m clashes, at least on paper, will take place in Eugene, Oregon, with the staging of the Prefontaine Classic, a leg of the Wanda Diamond League, at the Hayward Field today. The Jamaican trio of Elaine Thompson-Herah,...
COVID-19 safety measures, including weekend lockdowns over the past three weeks, have led to inactivity in the recently returned local track and field season, and with the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships scheduled for...
EDWIN Allen High’s Kevona Davis and DeAndre Watkins of Jamaica College took the Under-20 Girls’ and Boys’ 100 metres titles, respectively, on day two of the Carifta Trials at the Natiional Stadium yesterday. Davis, who sped to a swift 11.35...
CALABAR High’s middle-distance athlete Kevroy Venson and Racers Track Club’s Terry Thomas stole the spotlight with impressive record runs at yesterday’s sixth staging of the S.W. Isaac-Henry Invitational Meet at the National Stadium. Following his...
THE Eric Bell Tennis centre in Kingston was very busy yesterday as youngsters from across the island were out in large numbers to compete in the King Alarm Junior series for Under-12, -14, -16, and -18 players. Yesterday’s turnout was one of the...
