After silver medals in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, Jamaica’s women’s 4x100 metres relay team is hungry to return to the top at this year’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Their last golden run came in Doha 2019, and now the stakes couldn...
THERE SHOULD be fireworks in the men’s 4x100-metre relay in Tokyo as the two most successful nations in the event at the World Championships, the United States and Jamaica, prepare to scorch the track in what promises to be a memorable clash. The...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s World Under-21 netball team, Annett Daley, is upbeat about the squad’s chances at this year’s World Cup tournament set for Gibraltar from September 19-28. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday on the eve of the team’s...
IT IS expected to be another blockbuster showdown in the men’s 200 metres, with the three medallists from last year’s Olympic Games set to clash once again. Leading the charge is Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the gold medallist, alongside America’s...
DEFENDING CHAMPION Shericka Jackson will be looking to spoil the party for St Lucia’s Julien Alfred and the United States’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden when the women’s 200 metres takes centre stage in Tokyo. Jackson, the second-fastest woman ever...
Track and field fans will not have to wait long for the most anticipated clash at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. The men’s 100 metres final is set for Sunday’s second day at 8:20 a.m. Jamaica time. For some, it’s a Jamaica...
When the preliminary round of the World Athletics Championships women’s 100 metres gets under way next Saturday in Tokyo, the million-dollar question will be: Can anyone come between the USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and St Lucia’s Julien Alfred?...
ONE event that will definitely have fans on the edge of their seats at this month’s World Athletics Championships is the women’s 100-metre hurdles. This is without a doubt the most competitive event on the schedule and predicting the medal winners...
ONE OF the events that will draw huge attention at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo is the men’s 400-metre hurdles. It will be a grand showdown between Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the world record holder with 45.94, Rai Benjamin of the...
SHANIEKA RICKETTS remains the most consistent Jamaican female in field events at the global level. She won silver in the triple jump at the Doha World Championships in 2019, Eugene in 2022, and at last year’s Olympic Games in Paris. Ricketts, the...
WITH BRONZE medals in the women’s 400-metre hurdles at the 2019 Championships in Doha and in Budapest two years ago, Rushell Clayton will be hoping for another top-three finish when she competes at next week’s World Championships in Tokyo. She will...
JAMAICA ARE set to make history at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, next week. When the preliminary round of the men’s 400 metres gets under way on September 14, the second day of competition, it will mark the first time the...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, has described the team selected for the September 13-21 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan as “well-balanced”. “This team has youth and experience. It’s...
With just 11 days to go before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, on September 13, fans will be hoping that the country can equal or better its medal haul in Budapest two years ago, where the national athletes collected...
Ackera Nugent defeated a strong field to capture the women’s 100m hurdles at yesterday’s Weltklasse Zurich Wanda Diamond League finals in Switzerland. Her run was the highlight of a fairly good day for Jamaica as Tia Clayton, Andrenette Knight,...
OLYMPIC GAMES bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell delivered the best performance by a Jamaican on yesterday’s opening day of the Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League finals in Switzerland, finishing third in the men’s shot put. Campbell moved into third...
TWELVE JAMAICANS, led by sprinter Tia Clayton, will be in action at the two-day Zurich Weltklasse Diamond League finale tomorrow and Thursday – the last chance for athletes to secure wild card entries to next month’s World Championships in Tokyo....
Former student of St Jago Hugh, Carl Page, will officially take up duties on September 1 as the new head coach of the boys’ programme at the Monk Street-based school in Spanish Town. Page takes over from Jermaine Phipps, who is a lecturer at the...
NATIONAL RECORD holder Ralford Mullings continued his red-hot form in the men’s discus yesterday as he powered to victory at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme Wanda Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium – the final stop in the series before next week’s...
Veteran Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the only sprinter to win five world 100-metre titles, will be one of eight Jamaicans competing at today’s Brussels Wanda Diamond League meet in Belgium. This is the 14th and final stop before the grand finals in...
OBLIQUE SEVILLE’S dominant victory over a strong 100-metre field at the Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, that included American Olympic champion Noah Lyles, has given him the belief he can go much faster. Seville continued his...
Oblique Seville continued his dominance over the United States’ Noah Lyles with another impressive victory at today’s Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland. Seville powered to 9.87 seconds in the men’s 100m despite heavy rains, a wet track...
JAMAICA’S MEGAN Tapper needs a special performance in Lousanne today if she is to make the final of the Wanda Diamond League in Zurich. The 100-metre hurdler sits on 12 points heading into today’s 2:14 p.m. meeting in undoubtedly one of the most...
OBLIQUE SEVILLE will renew his rivalry with the United States’ Noah Lyles in the men’s 100 metres when the 13th leg of the Wanda Diamond League gets under way tomorrow in Lausanne, Switzerland. Seville, who defeated the American at the London...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, says he is pleased with Jamaica’s performance at the NACAC Senior Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas, over the weekend. Jamaica mined 25 medals — including 10...
