Like she was a week ago in Rome, Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson Herah was in winning form at the Doha leg of the Wanda Diamond League at the Qatar Sports Complex. She sped to a time of 10.87 seconds to win the women’s 100m to end...
Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson Herah and Julian Forte will be the two Jamaicans in action in the Wanda Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, today. Thompson Herah, who will line up in the women’s 100m at 11:56 a.m., will be hoping to end...
Olympic double sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah was in fantastic form in her first international appearance of the season. Competing at the Wanda Diamond League meet in Rome, she captured the women’s 100m in a world-leading 10.85 seconds....
OLYMPIC Games double sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah and Julian Forte will make their international season debut today, as both are down to compete in Rome at the third stop on the Wanda Diamond League circuit this season, at the 49th edition...
AFTER a four-month break because of COVID-19, the country’s senior athletes got their chances to be back on track in a competitive setting in the first All Comers Meet of the season at the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College on Saturday. Despite...
With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing the sporting world to a halt and eroding the earning ability of sportsmen and women all over the world, there is a renewed call for young local athletes to prioritise the continuation of their education upon...
National goalkeeper Akeem Chambers is the first student to benefit from The Mico University College students’ COVID-19 relief programme. The programme, which aims to assist students at the institution who have been affected by the pandemic, was...
THREE JAMAICAN track and field coaches, Michael Vassell, Michael Russell, and Jermaine Shand, all working at the moment, are hoping that the coronavirus pandemic will come to an end soon. Vassell and Russell, both former coaches of Excelsior High...
AFTER taking over from Dr Walton Small as president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) last September, Keith Wellington has had a tough few months in his new role. With the threat and subsequent spread of the coronavirus...
Since telling The Gleaner a few weeks ago that she would not return to Edwin Allen High School for her final year of eligibility at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, there were many questions being asked as to whether...
NATIONAL GOALKEEPER Akeem Chambers of Waterhouse FC and his brother Tafari, a Harbour View FC player, are breathing a little easier today after collecting cheques for $175,000 from Portmore United yesterday. Last weekend, the brothers lost their...
This past Saturday should have been the final day of competition at the 126th staging of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, the most popular relay event in the world failed to get off the ground as it became...
THE final weekend in April each year is known worldwide as the time for the Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a historic 125th anniversary last year, this year’s staging, the 126th, was also expected to...
Jamaican high-school athletes hoping to go on athletic scholarship to colleges in the United States this autumn got good news at the weekend. On Friday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that it had revised the academic...
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...
