The country’s high-school athletes will return to the track today, as they begin to step up their preparations for the April 27 to March 1, ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships at seven Jamaica Athletics Administrative...
After weeks of inactivity, the country’s top senior athletes will finally get a chance to ply their trade, after the Government’s midweek decision to approve competition locally, with over 200 senior competitors set for action inside the National...
Local athletics stakeholders are breathing a collective sigh of relief, while issuing a word of warning ahead of this weekend’s return of competitive track and field, which arrives after weeks on inactivity and two rejected protocol proposals. The...
Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, the 2015 World Championships 100m hurdles gold medallist, was in fantastic form at Sunday’s fourth and final leg of the American Track League in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as she raced to a personal-best 7.86 seconds to...
Former Calabar High School middle and long-distance runner Kevroy Venson and Jozanne Harris ruled supreme at the 23rd staging of the Sagicor SIGMA Corporate Run in Kingston yesterday. Venson, representing Trainfit Club Mile Chasers, stopped the...
Danielle Williams, the 2015 World Champion in the 100m hurdles and 2015 World Champion 4x400m relay athlete Chrisann Gordon will compete tomorrow in the fourth and final leg of the American League series at the Randal Tyson Track Centre in...
Track and field athletes will have to endure even further delays to their season as more meets have been scrapped for this weekend. This follows a postponement of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Qualifying Trial meets a...
A number of the country’s top collegiate sprint hurdlers returned impressive times at two indoor meets in the United States over the weekend, with Daszay Freeman, Phillip Lemonious and Damion Thomas registering wins after strong performances....
CHRISTANIA Williams, Christopher Taylor, and Andre Ewars had good showings at the American Track League meet at the University of Arkansas yesterday. All three had top-three finishes in their respective events. In the first of four meets as part of...
Sunshine Girl Latanya Wilson, the latest Jamaican to be involved in the Australia Suncorp Super League tournament, is looking forward to the challenge as she prepares to leave the island tomorrow for ‘Down Under’. The former Gaynstead High School...
When the 2021 track and field season gets under way, one of the country’s top high-school track and field programmes, Wolmer’s Boys School, will be under the guidance of a new head coach, after Michael Russell was brought in to replace Donald...
The 2021 Track and Field season will not get under way as planned tomorrow as the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) did not give approval to the organisers of the Purewater/Jamaica College (JC)/R. Danny Williams and the Ted Dwyer Classics. The...
Two of the island’s smaller high school track and field programmes, Mona High and Jose Marti Technical High, received a boost for the upcoming season, as sportswear manufacturers Puma made donations of running shoes and spikes to officials from...
The ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) will be contested over six days in 2021 as ISSA has released a draft that shows the competition running from Monday, March 22, to Saturday, March 27. ISSA, however, released a...
Former Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Vice-President Glen Mills says he will fully support Garth Gayle, who was elected president at the weekend. Saturday was a special day for Gayle as the man who has been honorary secretary...
Today will be D-Day for the leadership of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) as its annual general meeting will be held at the National Arena at 9 a.m. In addition to the meeting, voting delegates of the JAAA will be casting...
Former Gaynstead High school standout Latanya Wilson will be plying her trade in the Australia Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) competition when the 2021 season begins. Wilson will join several other Jamaicans in the league and will team up with...
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...
