ACTION IN the 2023 Urban ISSA schoolgirl netball competition will get underway today with the playing of matches in three zones. Defending senior champions, St Catherine High School, who stopped Gaynstead 26-23 in the final last year for their...
IT IS OFFICIAL. After two successful stints coaching the national netball team Connie Francis has called it a day and is moving on. Undoubtedly, the most successful coach of the national senior team after doing so from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to...
National triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts is on a high following a satisfactory end to the 2023 track and field season. Ricketts, after her fourth-place finish in the event at the Budapest World Championships, went over 15 metres for the first...
WHEN PREPARATION for the 2023-24 high school track and field season started recently, it did so with several of the teams having new coaches in their respective programmes. Calabar High School, who finished third at last year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy...
IT WAS A glorious final day yesterday for Jamaicans at the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, with Shericka Jackson and Hansle Parchment leading the way with wins to walk away with Diamond trophies while there were top-three finishes...
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS. For the next two days, starting today, most of the world’s leading track and field athletes will be involved in intense clashes as the Wanda Diamond League crowns its champions at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene. Ten...
THE women’s 100 metres has been one of the top events on the track and field circuit all season and tomorrow’s race at the Diamond League finals in Eugene should be hotly contested. The red hot Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States will be...
OLYMPIC Champion Hansle Parchment and World Champion Grant Holloway of the United States will feature in a mouth-watering clash in the men’s 110-metre hurdles on Sunday, day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon. Holloway is the...
WHILE THE attention will be focused on the American duo of world champion Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman, as well as Botwana’s Letsile Tebogo in this Saturday’s men’s 100 metres at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, Jamaica’s Kishane...
HANSLE PARCHMENT and Shanieka Ricketts warmed up for this weekend’s Diamond League finals in Eugene, Oregon, with wins in their events yesterday in Croatia. Competing at the final World Continental Gold Tour series in Zagreb, Parchment, the...
World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson produced a brilliant run at the yesterday’s Allianz Memorial Van Damme Diamond League in Brussels but the world record 21.34 seconds for the half-lap event, set in 1988 by American Florence Griffith Joyner...
TODAY COULD turn out to be very special for Jamaica’s track and field star Shericka Jackson. A very confident Jackson, the world 200 metres champion and fastest female alive in the half-lap event, spoke to the media at a press conference...
WORLD ATHLETICS Championships 4x100 metres relay silver medallist Natasha Morrison warmed up for her crucial Diamond League 100 metres race in Brussells tomorrow by winning the event yesterday in Roverto, Italy, in a meet record 11 seconds flat....
ATHLETES WILL have last chances to earn spots at next weekend’s Diamond League finals in Eugene when they compete tomorrow and Friday at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League Meet in Brussels. World Championships 200 metres champion, Shericka...
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah picked up her first 100 metres win of the season yesterday when she captured the 100 metres in a season’s best 10.92 seconds at the Gala del Castelli Bellinoza World Athletics Continental Tour Silver level...
JAMAICANS Natasha Morrison, Amoi Brown, Danielle Williams and Ronald Levy picked up wins at two track and field meets in Europe yesterday. At the Citta Di Padova World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meet in Italy, Morrison, a semifinalist in...
Eleven Jamaican athletes, headed by World Championships 110-metre hurdles silver medallist Hansle Parchment, will compete at today’s Xiamen Diamond League in China. Parchment will once again be in a battle with World champion Grant Halloway of the...
WORLD CHAMPIONS Shericka Jackson and Danielle Williams scored good wins at yesterday’s Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland. Jackson continued to dominate rivals over 200 metres while Williams, like she did in Budapest, produced another...
A clash between 2023 World champion Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States and Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah over 100 metres will be one of the highlights of Thursday’s Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland....
THE INAUGURAL staging of the Blue Run 5K Road race will have, as its goal, aiding in the fight against prostate cancer. The event, set for Emancipation Park on September 17 at 6:30 a.m., is the brainchild of Running Events Jamaica. During the event...
No Jamaican athlete has ever won a medal in the women’s 800 metres at the World Athletics Championships, and next week in Budapest, Natoya Goule-Toppin will be hoping to make history in the event. When the first round of the event gets under way...
Calabar High’s Shaquane Gordon and Daniel Wright of Excelsior High were the top performers for Jamaica at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) which ended yesterday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica won four medals at...
ONE OF, if not the biggest upsets at last year’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, came in the Women’s 4x100 metres relay where the United States upstaged overwhelming favourites, Jamaica. Fast-forward one year and Jamaica will be aiming to...
SINCE THE retirement of Usain Bolt, the United States has dominated the men’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships, scoring wins at the last three stagings. Justin Gatlin started the wins for the Americans in 2017 in London, with...
FOUR YEARS AGO Jamaica had its best ever results in field events at the World Athletics Championships in Doha as athletes bagged one gold and three silver medals. Tajay Gayle led the way with gold in the men’s long jump while Fedrick Dacres in the...
