BUDAPEST, Hungary World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says despite the climate change issues and other factors, he hopes that the Caribbean will be in a position to stage a major championships in the future. Coe was speaking at Sunday’s end-of-...
BUDAPEST.Hungary Commonwealth Games high jump champion Lamara Distin has come a long way in the last two years. Last night, in her second consecutive World Campionships final, she displayed how far she has come, finishing in the top eight of a...
BUDAPEST, Hungary In a valiant display, Jamaica’s women’s 4x400 metres team powered home to bring the curtain down on the 2023 World Athletics Championships, with back-to-back silver medals to propel the island to its second-best medal count in...
BUDAPEST, Hungary At every major championship, the Jamaican team attracts attention from many international fans. For the last nine days after their training sessions at the Hungarian University of Sports Science, onlookers would watch from behind...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Technical leader for the Jamaica World Championships team, Maurice Wilson, said that legal action could be explored against two-time national 100 metres champion Tyquendo Tracey. In a social media post on Thursday, Tracey...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: SHERICKA Jackson clung on to her “baby” in commanding fashion, winning her favourite 200m race to claim back-to-back World Championship titles in the women’s event at the World Championships yesterday. After earlier securing her...
BUDAPEST, Hungary Last year, Wayne Pinnock knew he belonged on the big stage. Yesterday at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, he proved it, leading a Jamaican podium finish in the men’s long jump final and starting a medal rush on...
BUDAPEST, Hungary It’s been eight years but Danielle Williams is a World Champion again. And on the same day, Antonio Watson, a champion and medal winner throughout his junior career, has ascended to similar heights with his first senior global...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: AS FAR as Roshawn Clarke is concerned, he has completed the checklist of a brilliant debut senior season after his first World Championships final. Clarke finished fourth in the men’s 400-metre hurdles final, clocking 48.07...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: IT’S BEEN eight years in the making for national 400-metre hurdles champion Janieve Russell. Her return to the women’s 400m hurdles final today at 2:50 p.m. is the result of the hard work, and she is ready to leave everything on...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: LAST YEAR, Wayne Pinnock, thanks to his father’s counsel, made his World Championships debut and surprised himself with a place in the long jump final. With that experience behind him, Pinnock is determined to take the biggest...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: SHERICKA JACKSON knows with every 200-metre performance, the talk about the possibility of breaking the world record will follow. But taking inspiration from another world record holder, she is more focused on the process of...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: IN A semifinal that included former World and Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk, Antonio Watson showed no fear. His reward? A first 400m World Championship final in his senior team debut that was the highlight of a strong Day...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: THE SCREAM of joy that quarter-miler Candice McLeod unleashed after qualifying for back-to-back women’s 400-metre World Championships finals on Monday was not just the end of a nervous wait in the Q room. It was a full-circle...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: HISTORY WILL have to wait for Jaydon Hibbert, for now. But while there is disappointment, there is also pride and determination in him not only because he’s had an outstanding 2023, but because of the future that is ahead of him...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: WHEN NAYOKA Clunis enters the National Athletics Centre today, she will break a glass ceiling for Jamaican athletics. She will be the first athlete, man or woman, to take the circle in the hammer throw event, and it will be the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary In a debut season where he has soared to new heights, national 400 metres hurdles champion Roshawn Clarke can add World Athletics Championships finalist to his résumé. He can also call himself world under-20 record holder and the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: JAMAICA FINALLY celebrated medal success on day three of the World Athletics Championships yesterday. What they also saw was the ascension of American Sha’Carri Richardson as the new women’s World 100-metre champion, breaking the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Of course, Adelle Tracey would rather be competing in the women’s 1500 metres final today. But breaking a national record, which, until Sunday, stood for almost 30 years, has filled her with immense pride in her second year of...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: It may not have been the World Championships final experience that he would have hoped for but that is not going to deter national shot put champion Rajindra Campbell who is pleased with the progress he made this year. Campbell...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: He thought he had it. Jamaica thought he had it. But by a fraction, Oblique Seville was edged out of a first 100-metres World Championships medal. And the margins by which he lost out left him lost for words. But also it left...
BUDAPEST, Hungary It has been far from a perfect season for the five-time world 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. But after her comfortable first-round qualification yesterday, she is adamant that she will not lose her world title...
BUDAPEST, Hungary In three years Jaydon Hibbert soared to the heights of the junior level, with his World under-20 title victory last year making him one for the future. Now as the 18-year-old makes his senior World Athletics Championships debut...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: IN WHAT has emerged a memorable August for sport, technical leader of Jamaica’s track and field athletics team, Maurice Wilson, has no doubt that the country’s athletes will deliver, as the chase for glory begins today on Day One...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: The Jamaican team that will start the mixed 4x400-metre relay here in Budapest, Hungary for the XIX World Athletics Championships has been determined. Demish Gaye, Malik James King, Natoya Goule, and Stacey-Ann Williams will be...
