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...
OLYMPIC GAMES triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts will be hunting for her third Diamond League win in the event this season when she competes at today’s sixth leg of the series, the Bislett Games in Oslo. The leader in the women’s event...
FOLLOWING THE East and West qualifying quarterfinal rounds two weeks ago, the NCAA Division One Track and Field Championships will climax this week at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, with semifinals and finals. Both males and females will compete...
HIGH JUMPER Lamara Distin and Omar McLeod were the best-placed Jamaicans at yesterday’s FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands, a World Athletics Continental Gold meet, finishing second in their respective events. Roje Stona also delivered a strong...
EDWIN ALLEN’S Dashanelle Clarke and Kingston College’s Daquan Dawkins ruled supreme at the JAAA Age Group Multi-Events Trial at Jamaica College yesterday, topping their counterparts in the 13-14 age group. The two-day trial, which ended yesterday,...
Jamaicans Shanieka Ricketts and Andrenette Knight registered wins at yesterday’s Rome Diamond League meeting in Italy. Ricketts earned her second Diamond League victory of the season in the women’s triple jump, while Knight secured her first-ever...
IT WILL be a busy day for Jamaican athletes on the fifth stop in the Wanda Diamond League in Rome tomorrow where 10 are down to compete. Leading the way will be Olympic Games women’s triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts, who will contest...
FOLLOWING THE conclusion of last weekend’s NCAA Division One Track and Field East and West preliminaries, many Jamaican athletes booked tickets to the NCAA Championships, scheduled to take place at Hayward Field in Eugene from June 11–14. The most...
ONE OF the features of the JAAA World Championships Preparation meets is the presence of a number of high school athletes, who would normally be out of season with the climax for them taking place in March and April. One of those athletes, Muschett...
After more than 20 years as the throwing coach at Calabar High, Julian Robinson was recently elevated to head track and field at the Red Hills Road-based school, replacing Corey Bennett. A past student of Calabar and a national senior coach,...
FOLLOWING their epic encounter in the men’s shot put at Sunday’s Rabat Diamond League, the United States’ Payton Otterdahl and Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell will renew their rivalry in the event today at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet...
Reigning World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson eased to victory in her first 100 metres race of the season at yesterday’s Wanda Rabat Diamond League meet in Morocco. Jackson, who clocked 11.04 seconds, found her rhythm mid-race to catch her...
Tina Clayton of MVP Track Club, a second-place finisher at the recent Doha Diamond League, maintained her good form in the women’s 100 metres at Saturday’s JAAA World Athletics Championships Preparation Meet inside the National Stadium. Clayton...
Five-time Olympic Games medallist Shericka Jackson will be in action tomorrow when she lines up in the 100 metres at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco. The World 200m champion, who pulled out of the Paris Olympic Games last year due to injury,...
OLYMPIC GAMES silver medallist Kishane Thompson will make his first local appearance this season when he competes in the 100 metres at today’s JAAA World Athletics Championship Prep Meet number one inside the National Stadium. Thompson is the...
Jamaica’s Lamara Distin secured a second-place finish in the women’s high jump at yesterday’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in Zagreb, Croatia. Distin, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games champion in the event, had a keen tussle with...
NATIONAL long jumper Carey McLeod registered a best of 8.33 metres to emerge the only Jamaican winner at last Saturday’s Adidas Atlanta Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event. McLeod’s winning mark came on his fourth attempt,...
