Last year’s Female Athlete of the Year, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, is phenomenal. However, it looks like Holland’s Femke Bol is about to challenge her. Her 2023 indoor performances indicate that she is just as fast and strong as McLaughlin-Levrone...
No one could blame you if you have picked Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, Deandre Daley, and Bryan Levell to dominate the Class One sprints at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), which begin on March 28 at the National...
The recent Western Championship victories by St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) were emotional ones as the school was reeling from the death of long-serving coach Eldemire Smith. The bereavement has rested mostly heavily on school’s middle...
Last year, the marquee track event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) was the girls’ Class One 100 metres. It featured Edwin Allen High star, Tina Clayton, coming back from her 2021 World Under-20 title, and...
Jamaica College (JC) and Edwin Allen High took top honours in the high school 4x400 metres races at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays. However, World Under-20 400m finalist Delano Kennedy and Rickiann Russell caught the eye with brilliant...
From Kimar Farquharson in 2019 to J’Voughnn Blake last year, the winners of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) Class One 800 metres have made the one minute 50 seconds barrier a thing of the past. Jamaica College (JC)...
The last time high jumpers Lushane Wilson and Christoff Bryan were in action at the National Stadium, Wilson cleared a personal best height of 2.26 metres with Bryan over at 2.23, his highest clearance in five years. When they march out to the high...
Hydel High School’s girls raced to within touching distance of the Gibson McCook Relays 4x400 metres relay record last year. However, Hydel’s coach, Corey Bennett, reckons that his 2023 team will have to do something special to retain the title...
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...
