FOR ATHLETES who aspire to success in athletics, the NACAC Senior Championships is an important step. That’s the advice from Dennis May, team leader of the 37-member Jamaica team to this week’s staging of the meet in Freeport, Bahamas. “NACAC, for...
THERE’S A patriotic flavour to the refusal to accept the notion of Noah Lyles targeting Usain Bolt’s 200-metre world record. However, the data suggests that Lyles has earned the right to think Bolt’s monumental 2009 time of 19.19 seconds is within...
Jaydon Hibbert took just one attempt to win the triple jump with a meet record last week at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. After his monumental first-round jump, a personal best 17.27 metres to annex the title, he...
The historic World Under-20 shot put silver won last week in Cali, Colombia, by Kobe Lawrence will inspire others. That’s the word from Michael Vassell, the godfather of the local throws movement. Vassell believes with field events on the rise,...
BY THE time Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan settled into the blocks for her 2022 World Championships 100-metre hurdles semi-final in Eugene, Oregon, seven women had combined to produce 15 times under 12.30 seconds. Amusan tore up the history books with a...
NO LESS than 1998 Commonwealth 100-metre hurdles champion Gillian Russell-Love thinks that new World Under-20 champion Kerrica Hill could develop into a terrific senior hurdler. According to Russell-Love, the slim 17-year-old might eventually break...
A COMBATIVE performance by 18-year-old shot putter Kobe Lawrence made World Athletics Under-20 Championship history for Jamaica in Cali, Colombia on Monday. However, Lawrence said the drive to the nation’s first-ever World Under-20 shot put medal...
Trinidadian track and field analyst Ato Boldon is delighted that Tobi Amusan of Nigeria turned his world record prediction halfway on its head last Sunday in Eugene, Oregon at the World Athletics Championships. Amusan blasted the 100-metre hurdles...
Relay hero Davian Clarke has showered praise on Jamaica’s silver medal men’s 4x400 metres team from last week’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Clarke, an expert coach himself, says Jamaica got the team selection right. With 2019...
When Norway’s 400 metres hurdles star Karsten Warholm crossed the line last year in Tokyo, my TV screen said the time was ‘45.94’. I couldn’t believe it. For most of my life, Ed Moses was the gold standard in the 400m hurdles with his 120-race win...
THOSE WHO believe in signs will surely expect success from Jamaica’s team to the 2022 World Under-20 Championships. The event takes place in an old stomping ground for Jamaican track stars, Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia, where...
American Kendra Harrison might be thinking that the 2022 World Athletics Championships might finally be her turn to win the athletics version of spin-the-bottle, the 100-metre hurdles. Her coach, University of Texas maestro Edrick Floreal,...
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’...
