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Stories by Raymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

Published:Sunday | September 7, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA HAS carved out a strong record in the men’s long jump at the global level. Tajay Gayle struck gold at the 2019 Doha World Championships and claimed bronze in Budapest two years ago, laying the foundation for the nation’s success. Wayne...

Published:Sunday | August 17, 2025 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

IT TOOK a meet-record-tying time for Kishane Thompson to stay ahead of Noah Lyles and keep his win streak going ahead of the World Championships at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Wanda Diamond Leage in Poland yesterday. It was also a good...

Published:Sunday | August 10, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

THE SCHEDULE in Europe for Jamaican athletes continued with the latest assignment coming at yesterday’s World Continental Tour Bronze meet, the Mityng Ambassadorow Bialostockiego Podlaskiego Sport, in Bialystok, Poland. The best performance by a...

Published:Sunday | August 3, 2025 | 12:18 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

GARVEY MACEO were minutes away from losing 1-0 to McGrath in the daCosta Cup final last year, but found a late equaliser before claiming their third title via a penalty shootout. As the team prepares to defend their title, coach Lester Hibbert –...

Published:Sunday | August 3, 2025 | 12:18 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING THE conclusion of the three-day Clarendon Football competition, which saw seven high schools in action, Anthony Baker, the driving force behind the tournament, was elated after what he considers a successful first staging. Glenmuir came...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

WITH JUST about two months to go before the Tokyo World Championships, Jamaican athletes will need to step up big time if they are to factor among the medals. With nine of the 15 Diamond League meets completed, only four of the country’s athletes...

Published:Sunday | June 29, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

THERE WERE no surprises for Olympic Games silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts, the triple jumper continuing her dominance on local soil to win the National Junior and Senior Championships for a seventh time yesterday. Ricketts lept to 14.52 metres...

Published:Sunday | June 29, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

EIGHT TEAMS, led by 2024 daCosta Cup finalist Glenmuir High School, will get their 2025 schoolboy football season off to an early start as they compete in the inaugural staging of the Clarendon Elite Cup, where over $100,000 will be up for grabs....

Published:Sunday | June 29, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

SINCE THE news recently broke that four of the country’s top field event athletes have decided to change allegiance to compete for Türkiye for economic reasons, there has been much debate among local fans and administrators about the move. On...

Published:Sunday | May 25, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

OLYMPIC GAMES silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts was the only Jamaican winner on the final day of competition at the Zagreb Meeting Boris Hanžekovic Memorial in Zagreb, Croatia – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet – taking the women’s...

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: AT THE recent Penn Relays in Philadelphia, young United States quarter-miler Quincy Wilson ran the fastest-ever 400-metre relay split in a high-school boys’ 4x400 relay, clocking 43.99 seconds for Bullis High School, which...

Published:Sunday | April 27, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

HYDEL HIGH School recovered from losing their Championships of America 4x100-metre relay title in record-breaking fashion on the final day of action at the 129th staging of the Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

Published:Sunday | April 20, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

IT WAS a form of redemption for Jamal Stephenson of Jamaica on the opening day of the 52nd staging of the Carifta Games at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. Stephenson produced a personal best of 10.24 seconds, running into a...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) enjoyed their fairytale ending to the schoolboy track and field season, capping off their centenary celebrations with a Mortimer Geddes Trophy. Joining KC in celebration will be Hydel High School, who upset the applecart for...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 10:06 PMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

HEAD COACH of Convent of Mercy Academy ‘Alpha’ Kirk King believes in “quality over quantity” for his young team as they compete in this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). It has been a rollercoaster season so...

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2025 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

THE KINGSTON College pair of Tahj-Marques White and Marcinho Rose brought the house down on the penultimate day of the Carifta Trials yesterday, finishing one-two in the under-20 boys' 400 metres at the G.C. Foster College. In what was a highly...

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

ST GEORGE’S College Under-16 and Campion College Under-19 teams are the ISSA Urban Schoolboy basketball champions, having secured identical 2-0 series wins over Camperdown and St Catherine High, respectively, at the National Stadium courts on...

Published:Sunday | February 23, 2025 | 12:17 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

THE CALABAR quartet of Jamal Stephenson, Shaquane Gordon, Dijon Swaine, and Khamali Gordon, the big favourites to win the Boys’ Class 1 4x100 metres at the Gibson McCook Relays, did not disappoint yesterday at the National Stadium, producing a...

Published:Sunday | February 23, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

DENBIGH HIGH School is renowned for its netball dominance in ISSA competitions, excelling at the under-14, under-16, and under-19 levels. However, quarter-miler Chanton White is determined to shift some of that attention to track and field. He aims...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:22 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

LIKE HE has been doing all season, St. Jago High’s Ryan Achua continued to prove that he has no match in schoolboy middle and long-distance events. He clocked an impressive time to dominate the field and win the Boys’ Open 5000 metres at yesterday’...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:18 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

DESPITE A second-place finish in the opening race of her season, Shericka Jackson’s coach at MVP, Paul Francis, is happy. The World Athletics Championships 200-metre gold medallist clocked 7.18 seconds in the women’s 60 metres at yesterday’s Queen’...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:15 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

OLYMPIC GAMES 100-metre silver medallist Kishane Thompson was the star performer at yesterday’s Central Hurdles, Relays and Field events meet at G.C. Foster College after producing a personal best and world-leading 6.48 seconds to top a strong...

Published:Sunday | December 8, 2024 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

G.C. FOSTER College A team are champions in Intercollegiate senior netball with the Sashagay Henry-coached team, in a brilliant display, dominating first-time finalist Moneague College to beat them 48-28 in the final on Friday night at the Leila...

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING URBAN senior champions, St Catherine High School’s hopes of repeating their feat suffered damage on Friday after they were beaten 25-20 by former champions, The Queen’s School in their top-of-table Group B ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball...

Published:Sunday | November 17, 2024 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

GLENMUIR HIGH School’s juniors recovered from their opening defeat at the hands of Titchfield to get the better of Dinthill Technical in the second set of games in the second round of the ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball competition on Friday. The...

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