More than 40 years of service at St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) by teacher and coach Eldemire Smith was broken on Saturday when he died after a bout of illness. Speaking a day later, STETHS principal Keith Wellington said Smith’s...
Believe or not, Jamaica’s loss in the women’s 4x100 metres relay at the 2022 World Championships could have been worse. The champion United States team ran without 100 metres finalist Aleia Hobbs due to COVID-19 protocols, leaving Melissa...
In 2003, the organisers of ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and and Girls’ Athletics Championships introduced a schedule of events that made Champs Friday a carnival of athletics not to be missed. Another change was made last year to boost attendance on the...
Kane Watson is a reasonable man. He knows that, at 35, he is near the end of his table tennis career. However, one thought keeps him going. He truly believes he has more to give and to gain from the game. That belief led him to his fifth national...
THE UNSUNG heroes of Jamaican track and field in the 1990s were the 400-metre men, who kept Jamaica in the medals from 1994 to 2005. One of their number, ace lead-off runner Michael McDonald, was honoured at last Saturday’s Jamalco Development...
When Carlando Chambers of St Jago High School won the 800 metres at last Saturday’s Jamalco/Puma development meet, his reward was the brand new Myton/Newman Challenge Trophy. The presenter was Seymour Newman himself, the 1978 Commonwealth 800...
The sport of triathlon is coming to Portmore in March. That’s the word from Carl Sharpe, Jamaica Triathlon Association President, who is looking forward to a bright 2023 season for the sport. Part of his optimism is born out of the bright start to...
At home in Guyana, Seon Booker is so well regarded that there is a billboard of him at his old school. The more he runs for Dinthill Technical High School here in Jamaica, discerning track and field fans are learning why. Undefeated in two starts...
A high school mixed 4x400 metres relay has been added to the programme at the long running Jamalco Development meet which is set for Saturday at Halse Hall in Clarendon. Dennis May, the founder of the Jamalco Track Club, hopes its introduction will...
YOHAN BLAKE won’t be contesting any more championship 200-metre races. That’s the word from Blake himself in an interview recently. Visiting India as an Event Ambassador for the 18th edition of the Mumbai Marathon held on January 15, the Jamaican...
A single moment can change your life. That’s the case for Jamaica’s Rivaldo Marshall, a student-athlete at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, who won the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) 800 metres gold medal on May 21,...
National champions Kane Watson and Solesha Young lead the list of invitees to a trial event designed to help the Jamaica Table Tennis Association pick its squads for upcoming regional tournaments. Watson and Young will be on familiar turf, as the...
IN 2021, St George’s College had just one entry at the GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) in Amari Officer and he put seven big points on the board. The St George’s team has grown since those COVID-19-ravaged days, and...
TWO THOUSAND and twenty-three began with the Hockey World Cup and now the FIFA Women’s World and Netball World cups are just months away. As a track and field fan, I can barely wait for the World Athletics Championships which will arrive this...
As St Catherine High School coach Marlon James headed for the exit after the ONDIRUN Sprint Fest at the GC Foster College of Physical Education on January 20, he predicted good things in 2023 for the star graduate of his programme, Julien Alfred....
In the decade since the 2000 metres steeplechase was introduced at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), Kingston College (KC) have won most of the glory. Five KC boys have stood atop the podium and the school owns...
Bryan Levell and Delano Kennedy, teammates at Edwin Allen High School, are both working to make 2023 a better year on the track than 2022. That’s the assurance from their coach, Leon Powell, who led the team to a fine fifth place at the ISSA/...
Those who arrived an hour late for the 2023 staging of the Central Hurdles and Relays meet last Saturday missed a record run that may signal a challenge to the established order of merit in the girls’ 4x800 metre relay. Early birds at the GC Foster...
The North America, Central America and the Caribbean region dominates relays at the Olympics and the World Championships. That has led the region’s top athletics administrator to believe that the World Relays meet should become a staple in this...
CARMEN CLARKE had many friends in track and field circles, and many gathered on Saturday as she was laid to rest. They included Mike Sands, the president of the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Athletic Association, who...
In pursuit of medals at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, this August, coach Julian Robinson is tweaking the training programme for his star discus throwers Fedrick Dacres and Traves Smikle. His objective is to get them to...
The low point in Jamaica’s 16-medal triumph at last year’s World Athletics Under 20 Championships came at 5:50 p.m. in Cali, Colombia on August 4. After racing to the fastest time in the semifinals, Carifta champion Delano Kennedy moved before the...
On January 12, I heard the first sign of worry by a Jamaican that the incomparable Usain Bolt could lose his position as the best sprinter of all time. It came as a coach wondered what lies ahead in my presence. The cause of his worry is Letsile...
“Sir, I have a lot of improvement to make.” Those are the words of former Edwin Allen High School horizontal jump standout Ackelia Smith shortly after a personal-best jump of 6.73 metres in December. The distance and her desire for advancement have...
HURDLERS SOMETIMES fall and it can happen at the worst possible time. If you doubt that, ask Shamer Blake or Demario Prince. The two young hurdlers enter 2023 chasing redemption after disappointing falls last season. As fate would have it, they...
