Although the World Athletics Under 20 Championships have been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still concerns that it could be cancelled altogether. One of those persons most concerned is Edwin Allen High School track and field...
A decision is yet to be taken on the staging of this year’s Penn Relays scheduled for Franklin Field, Philadelphia, April 24-26. If the 126th staging of the relay carnival is held it will do so without a Jamaican contingent. Minister of Health Dr...
Petersfield High school’s, Shaquena Foote and Excelsior’s Devontie Archer stole the spotlight at yesterday’s third and final day of competition of the Carifta Trials at the National Stadium after producing lifetime bests to win their respective...
The 2020 Carifta Trials started out on high for Camperdown High’s thrower Britannie Johnson at the National Stadium yesterday. She registered the first win on the opening day of the three-day meet after taking the Under 17 girls shot put with a...
THE TOP Under-17 and Under-20 athletes will be hunting places on the country’s team to next month’s Carifta Games, which is scheduled to be held in Hamilton, Bermuda, between April 10 and 13. Today’s opening day of competition at the National...
Refurbishing work to the surface of the throwing ring at the National Stadium is now complete, following recent complaints from World Championships discus silver medal winner Fedrick Dacres. Dacres, the national record holder, and several other...
As was the case a year ago, Kingston College and Edwin Allen ended February on a high after dominant displays at the Gibson McCook Relays, but with the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships just around the corner, the teams’...
LOCAL track and field fans will be in for a treat today as the prestigious Gibson McCook Relays takes the spotlight at the National Stadium. Action begins at 9a.m. with the preliminary rounds of the high school boys 4x400m with the final of this...
THE next time the country’s top discus thrower, Fedrick Dacres, competes in his pet event at the National Stadium, he will do so inside a new throwing ring. Dacres, the Doha World Athletics Championships silver medallist, pulled out of the event at...
After seeing her Venezuelan rival Yulimar Rojas break the world indoor triple jump record last Friday, Jamaica’s World Championships silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts remains confident of Olympic success this season and has targeted a record of...
Several top high-school boys’ teams, led by defending inter-secondary champions Kingston College, will lock horns today inside the National Stadium at the sixth staging of the S.W. Isaac-Henry Track and Field Invitational meet. Action starts at 8 a...
Despite a comfortable margin of victory for Edwin Allen High School at the Digicel Central Championships, head coach Michael Dyke says that it was not that easy getting to their 12th-straight title, as they had to play catch-up after being in...
Last season was a fantastic one for Jonielle Smith. She was a finalist in the women’s 100 metres and a member of the winning sprint relay team at the Doha World Athletics Championships. Now she is hoping for an even better 2020 season. The former...
THE ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships is less than six weeks away and fans will get a preview of what will happen among the girls teams, as the three of the top contenders will clash over the next two days, when the Digicel...
Defending champions Garfield Gordon of UCT Steppas and Eizabeth Mondon of Spartan Health Club walked away with top honours after being the first man and woman to cross the finish line in the 5K road race section of the Sagicor SIGMA Corporate Run...
Edwin Allen High School sprinting star Kevona Davis continues her preparation for the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) at the Ben Francis Invitational Meet today. Davis, who also has ambitions of competing at the...
AFTER a year’s absence, the intercollegiate cricket competition is back this season and several of the country’s top and emerging senior players will be in action. Four teams, 2018 champions The University of West Indies (UWI), The Mico University...
Although injury robbed Nathon Allen of a chance at the National Trials for an individual spot at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, last year, he played a pivotal role in Jamaica earning silver in the Mixed 4x400m and men’s 4x400m...
Five Jamaicans enjoyed success over the weekend at indoor athletics meets in the United States, with Kimberly Williams, Charokee Young, Kiara Grant, Annia Ashley and Shakwon Coke all scoring wins. Also impressing were Odaine Lewis, Clive Pullen,...
Garfield Gordon of UCT Steppas and Jozanne Harris of Jamdammers were the top men’s and women’s finishers at the Run For Your Heart 5K and 2K Road Race, which started and ended at Emancipation Park yesterday. In very cool conditions, Harris clocked...
THE 2020 local track and field season will continue today with the staging of three meets across the island. In the east, there will be the Eastern Invitational Track and Field Meet at Lyssons, St Thomas; in central Jamaica, the Jamalco Sports Club...
Last Saturday’s St Elizabeth Technical Invitational in Santa Cruz produced multiple meet records, both on the track and in the field. Among the outstanding performers was Manchester High School Class Two athlete, Shevanae Thomas. On a day when her...
SEVERAL overseas-based athletes performed well at indoor meets in the United States last weekend. Sprint hurdler Philip Lemonious, quarter-miler Shian Salmon along with a male MVP International 4x400 metres quartet had second-place finishes in...
Briana Williams, the 2018 World Under 20 double sprint champion, will line up in the women’s invitational 60m sprint event at the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Meet at the National Stadium today around 6:30 p.m. This is Williams’ first time competing...
EDWIN Allen High School’s outstanding sprinter Kevona Davis will make her long-awaited season debut today, when she competes in the 200 metres at the St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS) Invitational meet in Santa Cruz. Davis, the 2019 ISSA/...
