St Jago High School’s Bryan Achau unleashed a devastating run in the boys’ 5000 metres at the opening track and field on the JAAA’s 2025 calendar, the Wesley Powell Benjamin meet, at Excelsior High School yesterday. The Kenya-born athlete led from...
Holmwood Technical’s netballer Jada Ricketts got the perfect send-off to her high school career, playing major roles in her team winning the rural and all-island senior titles in the ISSA competitions. “This was my last year playing for the team,...
Cali, Colombia: JUST OVER a week ago, Jamaica’s female sprinters re-established themselves as the best in the world at the senior level, completing a one-two-three podium finish in the women’s 100-metre final at the World Athletics Championships...
FORMER Vere Technical High School and national junior representative, Marie Forbes, and former Calabar High School hurdler, Lafranz Campbell, registered good results at the start of their Indoor collegiate season at home for Clemson University on...
SPRINTER ELAINE Thompson-Herah maintained her impressive form with a meet record, to emerge one of three Jamaican winners at the Meeting de Paris Diamond League athletics, another in the Wanda Diamond League series, in France yesterday. Sprint...
Jamaica’s athletes continued from where they left off on Friday with another dominating performance on Saturday’s morning session of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Under-18 and Under-23 Championships...
Yohan Blake produced his best form in almost two years to improve Jamaican expectations in men’s sprinting at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, when winning the 100m in a season’s best 9.95 seconds at the America Track League track and field athletics...
History was created inside the National Stadium yesterday morning, as two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce blazed to 10.63 seconds (+1.3) in the 100m at the JAAA/JOA Olympic Destiny Meet, to set a new national record and register the...
Quarter-milers Shericka Jackson and Zadrion Barnes recorded personal bests in winning the women’s 100m and the men’s 400m, respectively, at Series Two of the Jamaica Olympic Association/Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association’s Olympic Destiny...
Twelve Jamaicans are listed to compete at the Wanda Diamond League opener at Gateshead today, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who lines up in a mouth-watering women’s 100m clash, leading the way. Fraser-Pryce, who will be competing in her first 100m...
Sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell and schoolboy sprinter Sachin Dennis were among the most impressive competitors on a day that saw several strong performances, as local athletes geared up for next month’s National Senior Championships at yesterday’...
Organisers of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) have designed a number of strict safety protocols ahead of the event’s return next month, including mandatory COVID-19 tests as well as containment, for all...
After three weeks of inactivity, local track and field competition returned to the island yesterday, with the ninth staging of the Velocity Fest Track Meet inside the National Stadium, with MVP’s Rasheed Broadbell stealing the show with a...
Sprinting legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (SFP) strolled to a comfortable 23.19 seconds in her season-opening 200m win at yesterday’s Velocity Fest meet inside the National Stadium, barely breaking a sweat in the process. With heavy headwind taking...
The highlighted performance on Friday’s first day of the Anthrick Corporate Area Development Meet, which was held inside the National Stadium, came from Calabar High School’s long jumper, Jordan Turner, who exploded to a record mark of 7.82 metres...
Racer’s Track Club’s Miguel Francis stole the spotlight at yesterday’s Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association’s Qualifying Trial Meet for seniors, inside the National Stadium, after producing a solid 20.50 seconds, running in a negative wind...
After an absence of several years, former assistant Coach for the Sunshine Girls, Annette Daley, is back in the national netball programme, after she was recently named head coach of the Under-21 team by Netball Jamaica. Daley brings tremendous...
HISTORY was created on Friday’s second day of the NCAA Division One Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as 21-year-old Juvaughn Harrison, a senior at Louisiana State University (LSU), produced a personal best and world-...
Despite the presence of ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls champions Edwin Allen High School, it was the Rusea’s High School duo of Lavanya Williams and Aalliyah Francis, who stole the spotlight at yesterday’s Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association...
The island’s track and field athletes finally got a chance to return to the track yesterday, as competition returned with several Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Qualification meets across the island, under strict COVID-19...
Danielle Williams, 2015 World Championships 100m hurdles gold medallist, along with former Mount Alvernia standout Kemba Nelson, scored good indoor wins on Friday in their respective events at meets in the United States. Williams, who two weeks ago...
Former Edwin Allen High School standout Kevona Davis completed her first collegiate run, finishing second overall in the 200m at the Wooo Pig Classic at the Randall Tyson Track on the campus of the University of Arkansas on Friday. The University...
GARTH Gayle is the new president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), after crossing the line well in front, in a resounding victory over Jamaican sprinting great Donald Quarrie by 236 to 28 votes at yesterday’s annual...
Intercollegiate sports will take on a new look for the 2020-21 season after the final stages of the 2019-20 sporting year was decimated by COVID-19. A virtual intercollegiate meeting was held last Friday to discuss the way forward, and the...
YEARS ago, it was the dream of most local high school athletes to obtain a scholarship to colleges and universities in the United States to continue their track and field careers, and these athletes played significant roles in the success of their...
