When the finalists line up for the boys' 4x400 metres at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships on July 15, the United States of America will be the favourite as usual. However, after seeing brilliant high-school running at last weekend's Penn Relays...
A year ago, 400 metre runner Fitzroy Dunkley was flying high at the Penn Relays. Now 12 months after a winning anchor leg for a Jamaica in the USA versus the World 4x400 metre relay, Dunkley is back from injury and hoping to be selected for Penn...
England's Richard Kilty believes that Jamaica needs retired sprint king Usain Bolt to win in the 4x100 metre relay.A jubilant Kilty expressed the view after England won the sprint relay at the Commonwealth Games a few days ago in Australia. With...
Sprinter Natalliah Whyte raised her stocks with a big 200m personal best on Saturday. Whyte, the 2014 Youth Olympic champion, did successful double duty at the War Eagle meet on the campus of Auburn University, while there were key wins by fellow...
A personal best by former Jamaica College jumper Clayton Brown was the best Jamaican performance of a busy weekend on the US college track and field circuit. Brown fought his way over a bar set at 2.24m in Florida, while compatriots Adrian Riley,...
There's no clear favourite for the men's 100 metre at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. That's the view of Ato Boldon, who won that title in 1998 for Trinidad and Tobago. Boldon brands that event as wide open, but believes that 2017 World...
Twenty years ago, 100-metre hurdler Gillian Russell won gold for Jamaica at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.Reflecting on that victory, Russell-Love says it validated a career that was marked by triumph at the Junior level and on the US Collegiate...
Malik James-King of Calabar High School lit up the final day of the JAAA Carifta Trials at the National Stadium on March 4 with a fine performance in the 400-metre hurdles. James-King fought off a determined challenge with a personal best time of 50...
There were important wins for Jamaicans on the US indoor college circuit on the weekend. Running for Georgia Tech and Florida State University, respectively, Jenine Williams and Edward Clarke triumphed in the women's 60-metre hurdles and the men's...
Jamaica's 30-member team to the IAAF World Indoor Championships has been jolted by the withdrawal of defending 60 metres hurdles champion Omar McLeod.News about McLeod's withdrawal came from the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)...
Former Holmwood Technical High School standout Gleneve Grange smashed her indoor shot put personal best in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday. Now a senior at Florida State University (FSU), Grange spun her shot out to 17.24m at the Alex Wilson...
There is a new contender for the Boys' Class 1 shot put gold medal at the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships next month. It is Courtney Lawrence of Petersfield High School, the upset winner of the event at last week's Western...
Danniel Thomas-Dodd continued her fine indoor track and field season yesterday with an explosive destruction of her own national shot put record. Throwing on the birthday of her husband Shane, Thomas-Dodd fired the shot 19.05m at a meet on the...
After all she has won, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce could have stayed on the couch after the arrival last August of her son Zyon.Instead, she's been back in training with the MVP Track Club since October. In an exclusive interview, the 2008 and 2012...
Third last year in the 400 metres hurdles at Boys and Girls' Championships, Sanique Walker thinks she can win this time around. Walker is mindful of the Vere Technical High School tradition in the event and wants to live up to the expectations. Vere...
Javon Francis made a winning start to his indoor athletics career in Texas on a weekend where Jamaicans had good performances elsewhere in Texas, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Karlsruhe, Germany. Francis won his section of the 400m at the Texas Tech...
Hydel High School upset Edwin Allen High School in a thrilling 4x800 metres clash at last Saturday's STETHS Invitational. With Charokee Young giving Hydel a strong start, the Corey Bennett-coached team fought off a determined Edwin Allen squad in...
With three wins from three starts, Delrae Delancey of Munro College is the early-season ruler of the Class One shot put. However, despite having the best two winning throws of the 2018 campaign, Delancey is staying focused on winning at the ISSA...
Shot putter Danniel Thomas-Dodd and 400m runner Akeem Bloomfield were the star Jamaican performers on the US Indoor circuit last weekend. Thomas-Dodd upped her national shot put record to 18.46m at a meet in Northwest Ohio, while Bloomfield produced...
Michael Dyke, head track and field coach at Edwin Allen High, has described his team's 4x800 metres win at last Saturday's Central Hurdles and Relays meet as a 'remarkable run'.Edwin Allen won a duel with Holmwood Technical High in 8 minutes 54.58...
Two-time national 400 metre champion Javon Francis will return to action this Saturday at the third staging of the McKenley/Wint Track and Field Classic at Calabar High school.Now recovered from the hamstring niggles that sidelined him last year,...
Hurdler supreme Omar McLeod and rising shot put star Danniel Thomas-Dodd launched their 2018 seasons with bright performances at the weekend. McLeod, the reigning World Indoor 60m hurdles champion, dominated his event at a meet in Kentucky, while...
Positioned once more as a nominee for the RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation Sportsman of the Year Award, 110m hurdler Omar McLeod was Jamaica's only individual winner at the IAAF World Championships in London. That was the pinnacle of a peerless 2017...
Canada's top sprinter Andre DeGrasse will compete at the Commonwealth Games in April but not in the 100 metres. That detail was aired earlier this week by Athletics Canada, the governing body for track and field in that country. DeGrasse is set to...
Twenty years ago, Jamaica qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time and won new admirers for the island. Conan Osborne, captain of the national rugby team, sees the same thing happening this year July in San Francisco when Jamaica makes...
