EVEN THOUGH it was first staged in 2022, the ONDIRUN 100-metre Sprint Fest is already developing a tradition of saving the best for last. At the 2024 staging, hosted at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport on Friday, Raheem...
NOW IN its second week, I can admit that the first Saturday of the local track season knocked me off my chair. Leading the shocks was first-year Class Two sprinter Thieanna-Lee Terrelonge of Edwin Allen High who blew everybody’s mind. Terrelonge...
WITH THE World Athletics Championships as the centrepiece of the 2023 season, Jamaicans expected its athletics team to shine. They weren’t disappointed. The team garnered 12 medals, seven for the women and five for the men. Among them were three...
IN 2023, JAMAICA had some fantastic moments, and today, on the eve of a new year, the start of the 2024 athletics season, and with the Paris Olympics to look forward to, taking a little peek at what has gone may be a great idea. Here are the...
IN TIME, the change from selecting just one Athlete of the Year may prove wise. As the post-Bolt search for heroes continues, the global governing body for the sport has clearly decided to spread the load from one person carrying the sport’s...
THERE’S A new power in the men’s 4x400-metre relay and a Jamaican is at the wheel. Schooled at home, coach Jason Dawson directed India to fifth place in Budapest, Hungary, at the World Championships earlier this year. In addition, the Budapest...
WE OFTEN devolve track and field into numbers devoid of perspective. Viewed this way, athletics at the 19th Pan-Am Games hasn’t been much to watch. Contested in Santiago, Chile, from late October into November, it was largely devoid of big stars...
WHEN USAIN Bolt was in his heyday, meet promoters recognised he was the biggest draw in track and field. Given how this weekend’s Prefontaine Classic has positioned the women’s 200 metres, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson is being viewed in the same way...
THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) of 2001 to 2004 would have no trouble selecting Rusheen McDonald for the individual 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships. That’s because that JAAA used a slightly different...
AT LAST year’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, American Sydney McLaughlin took the 400-metre hurdles into the future with a super world record – 50.68 seconds. However, her departure to the flat 400 has left a medal open at this year’s...
WHEN ROSHAWN Clarke won the 400-metre hurdles at the recent National Championships, it added a layer of confirmation for his coach Okeile Stewart. Clarke scored a world under-20 record of 47.85 seconds and underscored Stewart’s belief that he has...
FROM WEEK to week, and especially since National Championships in Jamaica and the USA, the array of great athletes parading in the Diamond League has dazzled me. Today’s London meet is no different. However, the line-up that makes me scratch my...
EVEN THOUGH he has the biggest mark of the season, Jamaica’s triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert is working to improve. The gangling 18-year-old is adding two strides to the 12-step approach run that gave him a world-leading mark of 17.87 metres in May...
YOU’VE HEARD the gloomy narrative. Tied to the Olympics, track and field falls short of its potential impact on the sporting public and on the sponsors. It’s hard to argue, but it seems to me that the athletes are responding in the best possible...
NOAH LYLES closed last week’s Racers Grand Prix with a meet record of 19.67 seconds. The performance confirmed an assessment by his coach, Lance Baumann, that the two-time World Champion was ahead of schedule in 2023. Baumann, whose previous...
WHEN THE World Athletics Diamond League lands in Rabat, Morocco, today, the so-called Jamaican event I’ll be watching the closest is the women’s 400-metre hurdles. Don’t get me wrong. I really want to see how the likes of Shericka Jackson, Yohan...
INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONS Zandrion Barnes and Kadrian Goldson helped the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sport to a historic win at last month’s Penn Relays. Now they have shifted their focus to the National Senior Championships in July...
THE 100-METRE hurdles is the event in which there is the most at stake at the upcoming National Senior Championships. Even with last year’s World Championship runner-up Britany Anderson injured and out for the season, Jamaica has a wealth of fine...
THE DOHA Diamond League 100 metres and the 200 she ran in Kenya yesterday proved something we already know: Sha’Carri Richardson is fast. However, there are still questions about her championship pedigree, especially with the starting line in...
JAMAICA’S TAREES Rhoden is at the midpoint of a fine season that he hopes will climax with a place at the World Athletics Championships this August. The former Kingston College track and field captain has already set personal bests for both the...
THE NEW restriction on the influx of overseas student-athletes probably won’t help much. That’s because an earlier ruling has already blocked the way. In 2020, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association responded to stories of abuse to student...
WITH A brilliant debut indoor season behind him, World Under-20 triple jump champion Jaydon Hibbert will begin his outdoor campaign tomorrow in the Bahamas at the 50th Carifta Games. Travis Geopfert, Hibbert’s coach at the University of Arkansas,...
JAMAICAN JOANNE Reid is coming into her own. That’s the assessment by Reid herself and Chris Johnson, her coach at the University of Arkansas. A swift relay leg on the fastest indoor 4x400-metre team and a series of bright performances in 2023...
RONALD LEVY has had his fair share of ups and downs. In 2021, he sprinted to third place in the 110-metre hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics, only to lose his 2022 outdoor season to injury. He came back to competition last Saturday at the GC Foster...
ATHLETES FROM Central Jamaica have just come through a very busy period with the Gibson-McCook Relays on February 25, followed by Central Championships on March 1 and 2. Nevertheless, Delano Kennedy and Alana Reid have come from that period with...
