OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment lead a 12-strong contingent of Jamaicans into battle in Zurich, Switzerland, for the final Diamond League meet of the season, September 8 and 9. The group includes Stephenie-Ann McPherson...
Jamaica could soon have the world records in the women’s 100m, 200m, and the 4x100m relay events. So says Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, who helped Jamaica to win the first of its five World Athletics Championships sprint relay titles 30 years ago....
World Athletics U-20 Championships discus throw runner-up Ralford Mullings will soon take up a scholarship at Arizona State University in the United States. Caniggia Raynor, who coached Mullings at Kingston College for the last four years, is...
The 100m hurdles victory by Ackera Nugent at the World Athletics U-20 Championships is a sign that Jamaica’s future in the event is secure. That is the view held by Gillian Russell-Love, the first Jamaican to win the junior crown, who also believes...
Garriel White is looking for a personal best (PB) in the 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. White won heat two of the event which had its opening round yesterday, finishing in 58.65 seconds, to advance to...
Michael Vassell, the godfather of the local throws movement, and Tokyo Olympics finalist Chad Wright have both picked discus prospect Ralford Mullings to do well at the World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. In fact, Vassell and...
Maurice Wignall, the dean of Jamaican sprint hurdlers, says the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) was right to pick Hansle Parchment, Ronald Levy and Damion Thomas for the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan....
When Karsten Warholm of Norway broke the 29-year-old world record in the 400m hurdles, he affirmed a prediction made two years ago by Jamaican coach Okeile Stewart. However, even though Warholm has won the last two World Athletics Championships...
Jamaica’s medal winning streak in the women’s 400-metre hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. This is according to Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 World...
Hansle Parchment knows what’s at stake in Tokyo. That’s the assessment from his coach, Fitz Coleman, who says the tall 31-year-old 110m hurdler wants to perform when Athletics at the Olympic Games get under way later this week. Parchment is...
Five years ago, Fedrick Dacres opened Jamaica’s track and field campaign at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He will play the same role today, but he is no longer a naive newcomer. Instead, Dacres is one of the finest discus throwers in the...
With Jamaica’s top male quarter-milers suffering injuries this year, the nation’s 4x400m relay effort at the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, may need reinforcements. If the search for speed locates 400m hurdler Jaheel Hyde, he will answer the call....
Tyquendo Tracey, the national 100m champion, is ready to speed in Tokyo, when the Olympic track and field competition begins. Now 28, Tracey has the normal motivation that abides in the mind of international athletes, but there is something else...
The world record in the women’s sprint relay could fall to Jamaica in the upcoming Olympic Games. That expert opinion comes from 2004 Olympic 4x100 gold medallist Sherone Simpson. She believes Jamaica’s top four women – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce,...
Jamaica’s medal-winning streak in the women’s 400m hurdles could continue in Tokyo when the Olympic track and field programme begins. So says Swept Track Club head coach Okeile Stewart, who coached Rushell Clayton to third place at the 2019 World...
Scroll down the 2021 400m hurdles performance list and you’ll see the name Jaheel Hyde in the number seven slot after his personal best of 48.18 seconds at last month’s National Senior Championships (Trials). Hyde plans to prove that ranking is...
Jamaica’s best chance of an Olympic medal in the hurdling events will come in the men’s 110m event. That is the forecast from 1998 Commonwealth 100m hurdles winner Gillian Russell-Love. However, the Olympian ranks Grant Holloway, the American who...
Elaine Thompson Herah will be far more comfortable with the Olympic sprint schedule than she was at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. That’s the insight from 2008 Olympic 100m runner-up Sherone Simpson. She says that rest days between the...
Coaching by MVP Track Club maestro Stephen Francis helped Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce become a super sprinter, and now subtle technical changes have the four-time 100m World champion running faster than ever. The 2008 and 2012 Olympic 100m champion,...
Jamaicans are expecting a big performance from its fast crew of female sprinters at the upcoming Olympics, and 2008 100m silver medallist Sherone Simpson agrees. Simpson can see Jamaica winning two medals in the 100m and two more in the 200m when...
Sprint icons Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are not only role models for the next generation of Jamaican sprinters. American Ronnie Baker and Marie-Josée Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast expressed their admiration for both sprinters in Stockholm,...
Damion Thomas took gold in the 110m hurdles at the last World Athletics Under-20 Championships and the prospects for another medal-winning performance are trending upward. Vashaun Vascianna sparkled on Sunday last week at the National Junior...
When Shericka Jackson crossed the line in second place in the 200 metres on Sunday at the National Senior Championships inside the National Stadium, she completed a rarely accomplished hat-trick. Her time of 21.82 seconds made her the 10th woman in...
After a recent win over a key rival and with her training going well, Natoya Goule is in line for a shot at an Olympic medal in the 800m. A day after she won her event at the National Senior Championships, Goule agreed that a win over top American...
The Tokyo Olympics could be the stage for Jamaica to make history in the 100m hurdles. That’s the opinion of David Riley, head coach at Excelsior High School, who believes that this week’s National Championships will select a very strong crew of...
