SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD AYDEN Rennalls became the first medallist for Jamaica at the Youth Pan American Karate Championships. Rennalls got bronze in the 6/17 -61kg category at the champs which were held from August 25–31 in Asunción, Paraguay. The 17-...
REGGAE BOY and former West Ham striker Michail Antonio has joined TNT Sports’ team of pundits ahead of the English Premier League season. The announcement was made by TNT Sports on Monday. This comes days after an announcement by West Ham that...
COMBAT SAMBO is not one of the sports that make headlines in Jamaica, but Matthew Colquhoun, who is set to become the island’s first representative in the sport at the World Games, said he is on a mission. Already boasting four gold, two silver,...
Olympian Christine Day, who was selected as the first sports exchange adviser (SEA) from Jamaica for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, said she will be offering her assistance to Jamaican athletes at the Tokyo, Japan World Athletics...
Olympic Games 100-metre hurdles bronze medallist and four-time national sprint hurdles champion Megan Tapper has signed a four-year contract with German sportswear brand Adidas. “31 and still hurdling limits ... here’s to four golden years with the...
REGGAE GIRL Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw is the new owner of the Manchester City number-nine jersey for the upcoming 2025-26 Barclays Women’s Super League season. The Jamaican, who joined the club in 2021 and quickly became one of the most prolific...
FRASER MCCONNELL captures back-to-back victories at the RallyX double-header in the FC2 class in Nysum, Denmark, over the weekend, making himself a serious championship contender for the final round set for Estering, Germany, this weekend. These...
SUNSHINE GIRL Romelda Aiken-George has announced her retirement ahead of the Suncorp Super Netball League Grand Final. The six-foot, five-inch-tall 36-year-old left Jamaica to play professional netball in Australia in 2008 and has represented the...
FORMER DIRECTOR of Sport at The University of West Indies, Mona campus, Dalton Myers, has been appointed as director, Interuniversity and High Performance Athletics at the University of Toronto. This announcement was made by the University of...
WHILE MANY Jamaican netball players dream of an opportunity to play in the Suncorp Super Netball League, Australian Hannah Kuhar went in the other direction, travelling 36 hours across the world to play in the semi-professional Red Stripe Flavours...
NETBALL JAMAICA Elite League finals MVP Tracyann Francis’ achievements go far beyond what she did in the final of the Red Stripe Flavours Netball Jamaica Elite League on Sunday. Just to be part of that final, the Kingston Hummingbirds goal shooter...
REGGAE BOY and West Ham striker Michail Antonio is mourning the death of his mother, Ceslyn, who died after battling a long-term illness. Antonio shared the news via Instagram yesterday. “Hello mum, it’s your baby boy here. Your time in this...
WHEN WORLD Championship discus throw silver medallist Fedrick Dacres failed to make the national team to the Olympic last year, he said it hurt, but after earning his spot on the team to the Tokyo World Championships in September, he said he hopes...
REGGAE GIRLZ goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer has signed a one-year deal with Women’s Super League (WSL) champions Chelsea after three months of being on loan from the Tottenham Hotspur. This move will see the 34-year-old parting ways with Tottenham...
“Hope them change,” Olympic Games shot put bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell told The Gleaner when asked about his rumoured switch of allegiance to represent Turkey’s national team. Asked to clarify who are “them” and if this Turkey move would be...
National athlete Navasky Anderson has set his sights on September’s World Athletics Championships finals after he broke the national 800-metre record recently. Anderson set a national record of one minute 44.61 seconds at the Mission Run Baltimore...
PARIS OLYMPICS 110 metres hurdles bronze medallist Rasheed Broadbell is aiming to move further up the podium and take gold at this year’s World Athletics Championships scheduled for Tokyo, Japan in September. Already getting a taste of...
Birthdays are often associated with new chapters, and Olympian and Pan American 400 metres hurdles gold medallist Jaheel Hyde has announced on his birthday that he is retiring as a professional athlete. Hyde, born February 2, 1997, made the...
REGGAE GIRL Siobhan Wilson will, for the remainder of the Women’s Championship season, play for Southampton FC after the two brokered a loan agreement announced on Friday. The versatile left-sided player, who has been with Birmingham since 2022,...
“BABY NEMHARD Loading…,” that was the simple caption Sunshine Girls captain Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard posted on her Instagram page when she made the announcement last week Thursday. Above that was a photo which stated: “We’re expecting 2025 to be...
“A DISPLAY of solid foundation.” That’s how president of Jamaica Gymnastics Association (JAGA) Nicole Grant-Brown described the island’s performance at the inaugural CARIFTA Gymnastics Championships. The event, held in Jamaica from November 29-30...
Fourteen-year-old Rasandre Evans, dubbed the ‘Karate Kid’, won a silver medal at the 2024 Commonwealth Karate Championships in Durban, South Africa on November 29. Evans competed in the elite 14/15 -57 kg category where South Africa’s Brendan...
A stacked line-up of mixed martial arts (MMA) and kickboxing fighters are set to be on show at the Rough Fight League (RFL) at Funland in Hope Gardens tomorrow night. The eighth staging of the event will kick off at 8 p.m. and will see 14 fighters...
RUSHELL CLAYTON is the latest Jamaican to sign on to compete in the inaugural Grand Slam Track League. The series of track events, put on by sprinting legend Michael Johnson, pits 96 athletes across 12 distances four times per year. The league...
SURPRISE OLYMPIC discus champion Rojé Stona has missed out on the World Athletics Field Athlete of the Year nomination. Stona, who clinched the 2024 Olympic discus title in a meet record of 70 metres, was not mentioned in the nomination list of...
