Ever since 400 metres hurdler Andrenette Knight joined a training group including World Champion Dalilah Muhammad, she says she has been able to push herself harder. The extra push has made the 25-year-old a contender for a place on Jamaica’s team...
If Lamara Distin continues to fly in the high jump, no one will be happier than Hydel High School head coach Corey Bennett. Speaking just before the new national record holder steps onto the high jump apron at this weekend’s SouthEastern Conference...
DISCUS THROWER Traves Smikle owns a World Under-18 bronze from 2009 and silver medals from the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2019 Pan-American Games. That might be enough for some people but Smikle is aiming for more. To do well on the days that...
“I WANT to be an Olympian. I want to know what it feels like to be competing for Jamaica as an Olympian.” Those are the sentiments of Jamaican hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis, who is pursuing this worthy objective with time management as her most...
When Roje Stona sailed his discus 65.11 metres at the recent Penn Relays, the Clemson University senior had played his part in the achievement of a national milestone. Thanks to Stona, Jamaica has for the first time, four men who have thrown the...
Hurdler Orlando Bennett made a mighty effort to make the 2021 Jamaican Olympic team...and missed. Bennett sped to within 0.01 of his lifetime best in the 110 metres hurdlers, but a fifth-place finish at the National Championships left him stranded...
When Jamaica’s Romaine Beckford emerged the victor at the 126th staging of the Penn Relays in the high jump, his personal best clearance of 2.23 metres amplified a new Jamaica wave in the event. A week earlier, Christoff Bryan started the wave at...
“Athletes like to be part of a rich culture and Camperdown had a rich culture, as the Sprint Factory. We have lost that in recent years and we’re trying to see if we can get back to that light. We now have a cadre of sprinters. I believe, as a team...
Talent scouts at this week’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia may well cast an eye on Gregory Prince, the winner of the Class One 400 metres at the recent ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs). Prince, a strapping lad from St Jago...
Had THE COVID-19 threat receded last year, Javeir Brown would surely have been one of the stars of the moribund 2021 renewal of the Penn Relays. With the 2022 staging of the world-renowned carnival set to start this Thursday in Philadelphia, Brown...
THE FIRST big moment of the recent Carifta Games in Kingston came early on April 16. Unseen by most, Keyshawn Strachan put The Bahamas on the medal table with gold in the under-20 boys’ javelin. Strachan will be in action at the world-renowned...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 400-metre hurdles bronze medallist, Rushell Clayton, says her event is going to be one of the most competitive at this year’s National Championships. She expects to contend for a spot on Jamaica’s team to Eugene, Oregon, host...
UNDER NORMAL circumstances, three misses in the high jump would be a disaster. At Saturday’s Velocity Fest on April 23, the result heralded the return to competition of Christoff Bryan, who, at 26, still oozes world-class potential. Now based in...
Before 2021, no Jamaican woman had ever reached the final of the discus at a major championship. Shadae Lawrence made the breakthrough last year at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, and now with the World Championships to come in July, she wants a...
Janieve Russell just wants to improve, and if that process puts her on the podium at this year’s World Athletics Championships, then she would be a happy 400 metres hurdler. Russell also wants to defend her Commonwealth Games title in August if...
It goes without saying that Jamaica will have a great team at the Carifta Games which starts today. However, there are fine athletes coming to the National Stadium from all over the region. Here are six every fan should keep an eye on during the...
ONE OF the foundations of the victory by Kingston College (KC) at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships was the sprint hurdles. For the third Championship in a row, Kingston College won two of the three gold medals...
Surrounded at home by positive energy, Mark Anthony Miller gave Jamaica College (JC) 18 points by winning the Class Two 100 and 200 metres at the 2022 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs). His father, Mark Miller, was delighted...
IT’S A fair guess that the class 1 400 metres at this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships will come down to a duel between Gregory Prince of St Jago, the Central Championships winner, and Delano Kennedy of Edwin Allen...
Rahnsomn Edwards, hurdles coach at Kingston College, has described the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships Class One 400m hurdles clash between Rayon Campbell and Roshawn Clarke of Camperdown High as a duel worth going miles...
Sport is a key part of student development. That’s the viewpoint shared by O’neil Ankle, principal of Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town and Orett Wallace, headmaster at Foga Road High School in May Pen. Both men are former high school and...
A decade ago, everyone in the purple of Foga Road High School cheered 800 metres standout Kevon Robinson at the top of their voices. The smooth-running Robinson used their support to win two gold medals at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
Champion sprint hurdler Danielle Williams and Olympic 400 metres finalist Christopher Taylor have reacted bravely to the mishaps they endured at the recent World Indoor Championships. Both Williams and Taylor have set their sights on the outdoor...
Last year, at this time, Reynaldo Walcott was tuning his St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) sprinters to sweep the 100 metres final at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Since then, success with Shelly-...
NO ONE knows for sure what will happen at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in the Class one 400-metre hurdles, not even the fastest ever in the event, Jaheel Hyde. Speaking at last Saturday’s John Wolmer Speed Fest,...
