Relays have provided some of the most iconic moments in Jamaica’s track and field history - a stunning world record triumph by the legendary Helsinki quartet in the 1952 Olympic Games 4x400 metres final, Merlene Ottey’s searing anchor in the 1991...
THE CONSISTENCY of triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts hasn’t gone unnoticed. The 2005 world champion, Trecia Smith, has praised the two-time world runner-up and hailed a Jamaican breakthrough in the event seen at the World Championships in Eugene,...
Track coaches must hate Shericka Jackson and Fred Kerley. After the success by this pair of reluctant 400-metre runners over the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships, coaches are going to have a tough time convincing pain-weary...
Lamara Distin will make high jump history at the World Athletics Championships, which begins in the United States city of Eugene today. That’s the conclusion drawn from the top 10 predictions by respected American athletics publication Track and...
As the World Athletics Championships opens today, there’s an expectation of world records in the women’s 100 and 200 metres. Elaine Thompson Herah drew the records by Florence Griffith-Joyner – 10.49 and 21.34 seconds set in 1988 – to within...
A historic women’s 100 metres medal sweep could well be the centrepiece of Jamaica’s campaign at the World Athletics Championships, which start on July 15 in the United States city of Eugene. Elaine Thompson Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and...
Quite rightly, fans will focus on the athletes who will congregate in Eugene for the World Championships for the next 10 days. However, there are some key players who will only be able to watch from a distance. This group includes two women who...
When Fedrick Dacres threw 65.98 metres on April 22, no one knew his next competition would be this week’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. A groin injury changed the outlook for Dacres and his coach Julian Robinson but on the last day before...
Don’t think for a minute that there was any rejoicing when Andrenette Knight fell in the 400 metres hurdles at the recent National Championships in Kingston. In fact, one of the other finalists hopes Knight will bounce back to top form. Knight came...
Faced with a depleted men’s team at last year’s Olympics, Jamaica called on 400 metres hurdler Jaheel Hyde to run the 4x400 metres relay. In like manner, if called upon, Shiann Salmon will take up the baton in the long relay in Eugene, Oregon, at...
Chastened by the fourth-place finish at the 2021 National Championships, 400 metres hurdler Shian Salmon vowed never to make it happen again. A year later, the 23- year-old lived up to her vow by taking a secure second place at last month’s...
Jermaine Gonzales, the 2011 World Championship 400 metres finalist, has urged today’s one-lap exponents not to be afraid of the event. Speaking after Jevaughn Powell swept to victory at last month’s National Championships, Gonzales also expressed...
By the time two-time 100 metres breaststroke Olympic finalist Alia Atkinson retired in December, she already harboured a dream of helping her sport develop. Now, as the new chairperson of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Athletes’...
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...
