Battlelines were drawn for tomorrow’s Gibson McCook Relays, at Jamaica College on February 18. Defending 4x800 metres champion Jamaica College (JC) and 2023 Western Relay winners Kingston College (KC) tuned up for Gibson McCook with notable...
BATTLE LINES were drawn for this Saturday’s Gibson-McCook Relays at Jamaica College on February 18. Defending 4x800 champion school Jamaica College (JC) and 2023 Western Relay winners Kingston College (KC) tuned up for Gibson-McCook with notable...
Girls’ competition at last Saturday’s Western Championships saw several notable double winners. None of them, however, shone more brightly than Alexis James of Petersfield High School, the 2022 World Under-20 100 metres hurdles runner-up. She wasn’...
Shamer Blake made three trips on to his home track at St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) on the final day of the Western Championships last Saturday, and each one of them was spectacular. The first two earned him individual gold medals, and the...
With a record entry of 600 throwers bearing witness, discus throwers Traves Smikle and Fedrick Dacres put on a world-class show at the recent King of the Ring all throws meet at Excelsior High School. After a day when Dacres and Smikle were...
Coach Andrew Henry’s Mount Alvernia High School speed squadron will come to the 50th Gibson-McCook Relays on Saturday as the favourites in the Class Four 4x100 metres. Undefeated and fastest on the clock at 49.03 seconds, the little ladies from...
Athletics coach Reynaldo Walcott has described the late Eldemire Smith as the best father anyone could ask for. Smith died last Saturday and Walcott is grateful for the guidance he received from the veteran St Elizabeth Technical School (STETHS)...
Middle and long-distance running will be in the spotlight at Jamaica College (JC) tomorrow as a new athletics meeting makes its debut. According to JC’s Duane Johnson, the Fervet Distance Carnival is designed to generate interest in running events...
Just as the local track and field fraternity was coming to terms with the passing on Saturday of St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) legend Eldemire Smith, another well-known coach has died. This time, it’s Edward Hector, the former vice principal...
Sprint fans may all soon have to add a new name to the list of women contending for national team places. The new name is Kasheika Cameron, the winner of the women’s 60 metres at last Saturday’s Western Relays. Cameron is working quietly at the...
More than 40 years of service at St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) by teacher and coach Eldemire Smith was broken on Saturday when he died after a bout of illness. Speaking a day later, STETHS principal Keith Wellington said Smith’s...
Believe or not, Jamaica’s loss in the women’s 4x100 metres relay at the 2022 World Championships could have been worse. The champion United States team ran without 100 metres finalist Aleia Hobbs due to COVID-19 protocols, leaving Melissa...
In 2003, the organisers of ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and and Girls’ Athletics Championships introduced a schedule of events that made Champs Friday a carnival of athletics not to be missed. Another change was made last year to boost attendance on the...
Kane Watson is a reasonable man. He knows that, at 35, he is near the end of his table tennis career. However, one thought keeps him going. He truly believes he has more to give and to gain from the game. That belief led him to his fifth national...
THE UNSUNG heroes of Jamaican track and field in the 1990s were the 400-metre men, who kept Jamaica in the medals from 1994 to 2005. One of their number, ace lead-off runner Michael McDonald, was honoured at last Saturday’s Jamalco Development...
When Carlando Chambers of St Jago High School won the 800 metres at last Saturday’s Jamalco/Puma development meet, his reward was the brand new Myton/Newman Challenge Trophy. The presenter was Seymour Newman himself, the 1978 Commonwealth 800...
The sport of triathlon is coming to Portmore in March. That’s the word from Carl Sharpe, Jamaica Triathlon Association President, who is looking forward to a bright 2023 season for the sport. Part of his optimism is born out of the bright start to...
At home in Guyana, Seon Booker is so well regarded that there is a billboard of him at his old school. The more he runs for Dinthill Technical High School here in Jamaica, discerning track and field fans are learning why. Undefeated in two starts...
A high school mixed 4x400 metres relay has been added to the programme at the long running Jamalco Development meet which is set for Saturday at Halse Hall in Clarendon. Dennis May, the founder of the Jamalco Track Club, hopes its introduction will...
YOHAN BLAKE won’t be contesting any more championship 200-metre races. That’s the word from Blake himself in an interview recently. Visiting India as an Event Ambassador for the 18th edition of the Mumbai Marathon held on January 15, the Jamaican...
A single moment can change your life. That’s the case for Jamaica’s Rivaldo Marshall, a student-athlete at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, who won the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) 800 metres gold medal on May 21,...
National champions Kane Watson and Solesha Young lead the list of invitees to a trial event designed to help the Jamaica Table Tennis Association pick its squads for upcoming regional tournaments. Watson and Young will be on familiar turf, as the...
IN 2021, St George’s College had just one entry at the GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) in Amari Officer and he put seven big points on the board. The St George’s team has grown since those COVID-19-ravaged days, and...
TWO THOUSAND and twenty-three began with the Hockey World Cup and now the FIFA Women’s World and Netball World cups are just months away. As a track and field fan, I can barely wait for the World Athletics Championships which will arrive this...
