Last year, Oblique Seville fulfilled a dream of representing his country at the Tokyo Olympics. When he dons the black-green-and-gold on July 15 at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, his target will be a technically good race. The...
For the second year in a row, the National Championships men’s 400 metres title has gone to a runner coached by two-time Olympic finalist Davian Clarke. Cool as ever, Clarke says this year’s winner, Jevaughn Powell, will run faster times in the...
WHEN KIMBERLY Williamson won her first national high jump title, she was an Edwin Allen High School student-athlete. Eleven years later at last week’s National Championships, the 28-year-old Pan-American Games bronze medallist captured her...
The final day of the JAAA National Senior and Junior Championships began with a riveting battle in the hammer throw, with Nayoka Clunis emerging as the winner. Clunis had to rally to beat the consistent Erica Belvit, and though they both missed the...
For the second year in a row, Jaheel Hyde has produced a big run to earn the title of National Champion. On Friday, the 25-year-old turned on the speed to clock the fastest Jamaican time of the year, 48.51 seconds. Remarkably, the performance by...
Commonwealth and Pan-American Games discus runner-up Traves Smikle has the longest throw by a Jamaican this year, but he said there’s no clear favourite at this week’s National Championships. That’s because, for the first time in the nation’s...
The top three in some events at this weekend’s National Track and Field Championships will almost certainly challenge for medals at next month’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. That’s the analysis of Reynaldo Walcott, head coach at the...
AFTER MONTHS of waiting, fans will finally get answers. By the time this weekend is over, we’ll all know who will carry Jamaica’s colours to the upcoming World Championships in Eugene, Oregon but that’s not all. By the time this weekend ends, we...
WHEN RUSHANA Dwyer and Jessica McLean compete at this week’s JAAA National Junior/Senior Championships, it will be the last of their many middle-distance races in the famous sky blue of Edwin Allen High School. Dwyer and McLean helped to cement...
Damion Thomas’ first year as a professional athlete has opened his eyes. Every 110 metres hurdler he races against now is gifted and resolute. Still, the 2021 Olympic semi-finalist knows what gives him a chance to succeed: he hurdles by faith....
Noted coach Mark Elliott has congratulated Navasky Anderson, who set a new national record of one minute 45.02 seconds in the 800 metres last week. Elliott, coach of women’s national record holder Natoya Goule, hopes Anderson’s performance will...
Now that Navasky Anderson has given the Jamaican 800 metres record a gentle nudge towards respectability, we can all breathe a little easier. After all, the old mark by 1976 Olympic semi-finalist Seymour Newman was a quality performance when it was...
When Jevaughn Powell settles into his blocks for the 400 metres final at the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Championships in Eugene, Oregon, today, the words of his University of Texas El Paso coach Davian Clarke will...
There’s a new name in the upper reaches of the all-time Jamaica 800 metres performance list but it’s a familiar one. Chrisann Gordon-Powell, the 2017 NCAA 400m champion, has made the move to the two-lap event. Injuries and a belief there is a place...
When Kevona Davis takes to the track in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday at the NCAA Division 1 Championships, she will be riding a wave. Now 20 and a second-year student-athlete at the University of Texas, Davis will enter as a potential finalist in...
From Herb McKenley to Kirani James, the history of the 400 metres at the NCAA Championship is filled with Caribbean glory. University of Texas coach Edrick Floreal has prepared Barbadian wonder boy Jonathan Jones to join a long line of triumphant...
Ackeem Blake is the third-fastest Jamaican in the men’s 100 metres this season, and his coaches at the Titans Track Club reckon he will give a good account of himself at the National Senior Championships later this month. One of them is 2005 World...
Jevaughn Powell is the first Jamaican to better 45 seconds in the 400 metres this season. Powell, the 2017 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships Class Two winner, clocked a personal best 44.87 seconds on May 27 in Fayetteville, Arkansas....
EVEN THOUGH she has been impressive so far this season for the University of Texas, former St Catherine High School sprinter Julien Alfred is a work in progress. According to Texas head coach Edrick Floreal, Alfred is moving into a positive place...
For the fifth season in a row, national hammer throw champion Erica Belvit has raised her personal best. With that new standard of 67.66 metres, Belvit says she is just going to keep building to her goal of giving Jamaica a presence at the world...
The recent surge from young Jamaican sprinter Kevona Davis hasn’t come from changes in her training. Instead, according to Edrick Floreal, Davis’ coach at the University of Texas, the advance is the result of a mental breakthrough. Davis, a 20 year...
Like her Caribbean teammates at the University of Texas, Olympian Stacey Ann Williams is being prepared for the World Championships but her next big 400 metres test is likely to pit her against fellow Jamaican Charokee Young at the NCAA...
In the 65 years since the respected United States (US) journal Track And Field News began to publish its annual world rankings, no Jamaican has ever been numbered in the top ten in the women’s high jump. That’s about to change, thanks to Lamara...
TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN Neville Myton died a year ago on May 19 and in a virtual act of respect, today’s exponents in Myton’s beloved 800 metres have accelerated in the weeks leading up to the anniversary. Three Jamaicans – Navasky Anderson, Rajay...
With three straight wins at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs), Hydel High are the current queens of the 4x400 metres. The future is bright since each member of Corey Bennett’s 2022 Penn Relay record wreckers is eligible to...
