THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has selected a powerful 47-member team – 21 females and 26 males – to represent the country at the NACAC Senior Track and Field Championships, to be held in Freeport, Bahamas, from August 15-...
DIAMOND LEAGUE leader Jordan Scott of Jamaica will be hoping to maintain his good form when he competes in the men’s triple jump at this Friday’s Diamond League meet in Monaco. The Herculis Diamond League, the 10th stage in the series, will see...
JAMAICA’S JENOI Daley and Dequan Dawkins were respectively crowned under-13 female and under-15 male champions at the NACAC Age Group Championships over the weekend in Nicaragua. The multiple-event championships saw Daley, the St Patrick Primary...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle is still positive that Jamaica’s relay teams will attain the qualifying times for the Tokyo World Championships in September, despite failing to do so in two of the...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, is excited about the participation of the country’s young athletes at the fifth staging of the two-day NACAC Under-13 and Under-15 Championships. The meet gets under...
FOLLOWING the recent track and field coaching changes at top boys’ high schools Calabar and Kingston College, there has been a new addition to the coaching staff at another powerhouse — Jamaica College. After the appointment of Richard Smith as...
WHEN THE selection committee of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) sits to select the team for the Tokyo World Championships, scheduled for September 13–21, it could be a major headache for the Garth Gayle-led body as several...
A WEEK before the JAAA National Junior and Senior Championships, big performances from the country’s record-breaking under-20 athletes at the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, were expected, and the athletes, making their way in the...
WHILE SENIOR athletes got most of the spotlight at last weekend’s JAAA National Junior and Senior Athletics Championships, there were several outstanding performances by the country’s juniors, especially in the hurdle events. Both the under-18 and...
MEGAN Tapper and Orlando Bennett stole the spotlight on yesterday’s final day of competition at the 2025 JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships at the National Stadium. Olympic bronze medallist Tapper of Elite Performance Track Club, who...
EDWIN Allen High’s Monique Stewart gave herself a big morale booster going into her collegiate career on Saturday. The 20-year-old who was plagued with injury earlier in the season, disrupting her ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
FANS INSIDE the National Stadium were treated to a spectacle at the JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships last night with fireworks in the women’s and men’s 100 metres finals. Tina Clayton was crowned the new national women’s champion,...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle remains optimistic ahead of today’s National Junior and Senior Championships, despite recent news surrounding the expected migration of four of the country’s top field...
THREE YEARS ago in Cali, Colombia, a special performance from Jamaica’s young athletes at the World Under-20 Championships helped them to 16 medals, the most of the tournament. The total was better than the powerful United States, who reaped 15...
ONE OF the ‘hottest’ Jamaicans on the track this season is sprint hurdler Ackera Nugent, with standout performances at the Grand Slam Track Series and the Diamond League. This weekend at the National Senior Championships, she will be looking to...
FOR the past three years, Rasheed Broadbell, Hansle Parchment, and Orlando Bennett have dominated the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the JAAA National Championships, occupying the top three spots. In 2022, Parchment came out on top ahead of Broadbell...
THE 40th staging of the JTA/Sagicor National Athletics Championships had a nail-biting finish at the National Stadium on Saturday. In a very close contest for top honours 2017 champions St Catherine edged 2018 winners St Andrew by 1.83 points. In...
JORDAN SCOTT continued his impressive form in the men’s triple jump this season with back-to-back Diamond League success at yesterday’s Wanda Diamond League meet in Paris. Following his win in Oslo a week ago, he produced 17.27 metres to win the...
AT 20 years old, Roshawn Clarke is Jamaica’s best 400 metres hurdler and, at next week’s JAAA National Senior Championships, the World under-20 record holder will be aiming for his second national senior title. Clarke, who celebrates his 21st...
IT WILL be interesting to see which eight athletes line up for the men’s 400m final at next week’s National Senior Championships, as it has been a struggle this season for the country’s male quarter-milers. After a surprise win at the Budapest...
THE UNITED STATES’ Grace Stark had to produce a meet record in Stockholm yesterday to get the better of Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent, who finished second in the 100-metre hurdles, clocking 12.37 seconds at the seventh stop of the Wanda Diamond League....
FORMER CLARENDON College quarter-miler, Dejanea Oakley, was at her best on Saturday — the final day of competition for women — at the NCAA Division One Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, posting a lifetime best 49.65...
ATHLETES GOT a final opportunity over the weekend to prepare for next week’s National Championships, as a large number turned up inside the National Stadium for the third All Comers JAAA Last Chance Meet, where there were some decent results. World...
FORMER St Elizabeth Technical High School female sprint hurdler Habibah Harris was the top Jamaican qualifier for today’s finals of the Women’s NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships, following semifinal action on Thursday at Hayward...
AT THE recent World Relays in China, veteran Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time World Champion over the 100m – said Jamaica’s female sprinting is in good hands. One of the athletes intent on being part of that...
