THE 2023 season has seen both the women’s 800 and 1500 metres national records broken. Mark Elliott, who coached Natoya Goule-Toppin to the new 800m mark, hopes the double milestone will inspire young Jamaicans to strive towards excellence in the...
The local table tennis fraternity is mourning the death of Courtney Wilson, the two-time national men’s singles champion, who passed away on Tuesday, September 19. According to his lifelong friend and teammate Ian Spencer, Wilson was “a calming...
WEEKS BEFORE the globe’s best athletes gathered in the Hungarian capital of Budapest for the 19th World Athletics Championships, Adelle Tracey saw the signs of a big performance. A training stint at high altitude was producing times that meant one...
A national 800 metres record has Natoya Goule-Toppin super excited about the upcoming Olympic year. Goule-Toppin became the first Jamaican women to go faster than one minute 56 seconds with a third-place finish in 1.55.96 at last weekend’s Diamond...
The last two times triple jumper supreme Yuilmar Rojas lost, she lost to Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica. Ricketts’ compatriot Danielle Williams won her first major 100-metre hurdles race of the season in Budapest in the final of the World...
EVEN AS the spellbinding nine days of the Budapest World Championships fade into history, there is one aspect of the Worlds that still makes me scratch my head. For some reason, the time between the women’s 100-metre semi-finals and final was...
Danielle Williams is in the spotlight now following her stunning 100-metre hurdles victory at last month’s World Athletic Championships in Budapest, Hungary. However, injuries almost drove her out of the sport two years earlier. Now a two-time...
Juvaughn Harrison met his goal for this season by winning a silver medal in the high jump at the recent World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. However, Harrison has even loftier targets for the next two seasons. The 24-year-old son of...
There’s a call for corporate Jamaica to support the island’s gifted young squadron of 100-metre hurdlers. The call has come from Lennox Graham, coach of 2015 and 2023 World sprint hurdles queen Danielle Williams. Graham says Jamaica is in good...
WHEN TWO-TIME World Champion Shericka Jackson lines up tomorrow at the Brussels Diamond League meet, she will have history pushing her along and history facing her like a brick wall. On one hand, Jamaicans have excelled in the 200 metres in the...
Jamaicans Michelle Freeman and Clive Pullen are continuing their development as coaches with new posts in the United States college system. Freeman, a pioneer in Jamaica’s 100-metre hurdles history, is now assistant coach for sprints and hurdles at...
If anyone wants to overtake Faith Kipyegon in the race for the 2023 Athlete of the Year crown, they’d better hurry. The little Kenyan arrived in Budapest for the recently concluded World Athletics Championships with three world records set earlier...
Hansle Parchment is in splendid form. Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion in 2021, Parchment rushed forward to win his event in Xiamen, China, on Saturday in 12.96 seconds. Speaking afterwards, he said he would have liked to have run that well in...
TRACK GEEKS just can’t get the number 10.65 out of their heads. The first time they heard it, Shericka Jackson was storming to a new personal best at the National Championships in Kingston. The next time they heard it, Shericka’s world-leading...
DISAPPOINTMENTS HAVE made Danielle Williams stronger. That’s the insight from the man who has coached her to two World Championships 100 metres hurdles titles, Lennox Graham. Williams, the 2015 World Champion, produced a stunning upset last week...
When Shericka Jackson crossed the finish line at the end of last week’s World Championships 200 metres final, she did more than just to cement her place among the world’s best sprinters. Jackson’s time - 21.41 seconds - closed the gap to the...
JAMAICA HAVE won so many medals at the World Championships that we may take it for granted. Winning 137 medals is no mean feat and ranks Jamaica as the fifth most successful nation in World Championship history. It all started at the first staging...
Mutaz Essa Barshim is one of the greatest high jumpers of all time. Among those standing in the Qatari’s way at the World Athletics Championships is a confident challenger in great form. JuVaughn Harrison, son of former St Jago High School hurdler...
When Jamaica’s Roshawn Clarke was first introduced to hurdling, he hated it. Thankfully, he changed his mind. Now he stands ready to contest the 400-metre hurdles in Budapest at the 19th World Athletics Championships. Clarke’s remarkable journey...
For the first time since she won the Olympic gold at age 21 in 2008, super sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce isn’t one of the unanimous favourites for a championship 100 metres medal. The speed of others and her own interrupted preparation have...
According to 1998 Commonwealth Games 100 metres hurdles champion Gillian Russell-Love, her event will be hotly contested at the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Russell-Love gives American super mum Nia Ali a slight edge...
Jamaica’s women were ready. That’s the observation by Ricardo Chong, coach of the national team that won the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) championships late last month in Suriname. Two weeks before the tournament, he felt, “the...
Nineteen-year-old 400 metres hurdler Roshawn Clarke made a giant step forward at last month’s National Championships with his winning time of 47.85 seconds. Now, with the 19th World Athletics Championships just around the corner, he’s quietly...
THE EIGHT-LANE running track is on its way out. That’s the consequence of a new ruling by World Athletics. That ruling ensures that for races run in lanes, there will be nine semi-finalists and finalists. The decision by World Athletics evens out...
WHEN 400-METRE hurdler Andrenette Knight completed her US collegiate eligibility, she joined a training group directed by American coach Lawrence ‘Boogie’ Johnson. That move has paid dividends. Now, the soft-spoken Knight is on her way to the 19th...
