As the sun rose on Thursday, July 6, Jamaica’s male sprinters had logged 298 sub-10 second 100-metre times. Before the clock ticked past 10 p.m., that precious total reached 300 after some monumental races in the first round of the men’s 100 metres...
JAYDON HIBBERT and Ackelia Smith stand on top of the world as the National Senior and Junior Championships open today in Kingston. They represent a powerful field event contingent that is likely to appear at next month’s World Championships in...
AS A schoolboy discus thrower at St Jago High School, Roje Stona was inspired by personable champion Fedrick Dacres and the other discus pioneers Traves Smikle and Chad Wright. Now Stona, Dacres and Smikle stand 6th, 7th and 9th on the 2023 world...
You might think you know all the contenders for places on the Jamaica team to the Budapest World Championships in the men’s discus. Think again. There’s a new kid on the block and his name is Brandon Lloyd. Along with the retired Jason ‘Dadz’...
When you watch Shawn-D Thompson begin his approach run in the long jump, he makes you think of Cuban great Ivan Pedroso. It’s no accident as the Jamaican admires the Cuban style of jumping and is coached by expert Marlon Gayle who studied in Cuba...
Swimmers and athletes in general often have questions about how they can rise to the top. A book, launched last Saturday by retired world record holder Alia Atkinson, has answers. Titled Day 1 not one day, the publication is designed by Atkinson to...
Even with last year’s World Athletics Championships runner-up Britany Anderson sidelined by injury, the 100 metres hurdles will be one of the most compelling events at the July 6-9 JAAA National Championships. The 2021 World under-20 champion...
It seems that the world record breakers of 2023 are working on shift. Kenyan queen Faith Kipyegon, who broke the 1500 and 5000 metres records in consecutive Diamond League meets earlier this month, has gone home to her adoring countrymen, juicy...
“Once he’s fit, I put no boundaries on him.” That declaration from SprinTec Track Club founder Maurice Wilson describes the potential of Demish Gaye, the 2017 and 2019 World Championships 400 metres finalist, and it comes at a time the smooth-...
BELIEVE IT or not, there’s no automatic ticket that entitles a young prospect to success in athletics at the professional level. If you question that assertion, just ask hurdles debutant De’Jour Russell. He is patiently waiting for his time to...
Olympian Tovea Jenkins says age is just a number. As the SprinTec 400 metres runner readies herself for next week’s National Championships, she is using super sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as an age defying model and is working her way back to...
By the time Yanique Thompson of the SprinTec Track Club heard the times for the 100 metres hurdles at last Saturday’s JAAA All-Comers meet at Jamaica College, she was content. The figure she heard – 13.02 seconds – felt like a good return as she...
Four athletes from the SprinTec Track Club/GC Foster College training group are on the entry list for tomorrow’s New York Grand Prix, set for Icahn Stadium on Randalls Island. All four – Canada’s World 4x100m champion Brendon Rodney, Ashley...
THE RECENT NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, revealed a new side to Jamaica’s prowess in athletics – wide-ranging jumps power. Jaydon Hibbert and his Jamaican University of Arkansas colleagues Carey McLeod and Wayne Pinnock dominated the men’s...
World leading triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert won’t be starstruck when he meets the world’s best for the first time. That’s the projection from Jeremy Delisser who taught Hibbert to triple jump at Kingston College. Delisser reckons that the NCAA...
Sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell is putting in the work that he hopes will see him through the National Championships next month and the World Athletics Championships in August. Based on his training, the tall 22-year-old has a positive outlook for...
MICHELLE HOLT, technical director of the Jamaica Hockey Federation, has played, coached and managed the sport she loves for more than four decades. On Sunday, with Jamaica’s men successfully through to third place at the inaugural Hockey 5s Pan-...
Jamaica’s bid for a place at next year’s Hockey5s World Cup came to a critical juncture at the Mona Hockey Field on Sunday. At 3-0 up in the second half of the third place play off against Paraguay, the host team found itself two men down, but the...
Injuries can dislodge even the very best from thrones they seemed destined to occupy forever. That’s the story of 400-metre world record-holder Wayde van Niekerk, the victim of a knee crunching foul in a charity rugby game. Happily, with American...
If you watched the recent Bermuda leg of the American Track League on NBC and wondered why Jamaica hadn’t hosted such an event, you’re not alone. Sharing similar thoughts is sport marketer Carole Beckford, who thinks Jamaica can do more to attract...
THERE’S SOMETHING different about Natasha Morrison this season and it’s more than her shocking pink hair. Talk to her and you sense maturity befitting a 30-year-old who raced in an individual World Championships 100-metre final as far back as 2015...
With Traves Smikle, Fedrick Dacres, and Rojé Stona all in the top ten on the 2023 world performance list, Jamaica is a bona fide world power in the men’s discus. Julian Robinson, coach of Smikle and Dacres, is delighted and has renewed a call for...
A respite from injuries has allowed Jamaica’s shot put queen Danniel Thomas-Dodd to train and compete at a new level in 2023. The relief saw Thomas-Dodd smash her own national record on Saturday in Los Angeles with a new mark of 19.77 metres. Her...
Jamaica’s stocks in the men’s 400 metres were on the rise in 2017, 2018 and 2019, but have dipped since then. However, there is cause for optimism. Leading the new wave is Sean Bailey who has just run 44.43 seconds for the distance. Racing in Los...
British sprinter Zharnel Hughes views his impressive 200 metres win at the May 20 JAAA All-Comers meet from two different perspectives. On one hand, he wanted to run a little bit faster than the 20.18 second clocking he was credited with. More...
