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JaBA president pleased with impact of NBA players

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA BASKETBALL Association (JaBA) President Paulton Gordon is praising the impact of National Basketball Association (NBA) players after camps this summer helped approximately 560 student athletes. In the months of June, August and September,...

West Indies to close out 2025 with Nepal, India, Bangladesh, New Zealand

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:10 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): THE WEST Indies senior men’s team will embark on high-profile overseas tours to complete a busy year of international cricket for 2025 following bumper home series against Australia and Pakistan. A historic three-match...

Amazon Warriors thrash Royals to seal top-two finish

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:09 AM

PROVIDENCE, Guyana (CMC): HALF-CENTURIES from Shimron Hetmyer and Quentin Sampson, along with a five-wicket haul by spinner Gudakesh Motie, carried the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a comfortable 64-run win over the Barbados Royals and the certainty of...

Sri Lanka end West Indies tour on winning note

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC): SRI LANKA Under-19s produced a dominant performance to crush West Indies Under-19s by 130 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in the seventh and final Youth One Day International yesterday. With the Windies having...

World Champs Schedule

Published:Tuesday | September 16, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Evening Session Wednesday (September 17) 5:05 a.m.: Men’s Triple Jump Qualification 5:10 a.m.: Men’s Javelin Throw Qualification - Group A 5:30 a.m.: Women’s 200 Metres Heats 6:10 a.m.: Women’s Pole Vault Final 6:15 a.m.: Men’s 200 Metres Heats 6...

Danielle Williams grateful for another final appearance

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 9:01 AM

Veteran sprint hurdler Danielle Williams said while disappointed in placing seventh in the women’s 100-metre hurdles final, she is proud to have made yet another final appearance at the World Athletics Championships. After crashing into the...

Williams advances; Nugent, Brown miss the mark in 100m hurdles

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 8:07 AM

Defending women’s 100-metre hurdles world champions Danielle Williams will be Jamaica’s only competitor in the women’s 100m hurdle final at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships following mixed results in Jamaica’s qualification attempts....

Safe passage for Jamaicans in men’s sprint hurdles

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 7:56 AM

All three Jamaican competitors safely navigated their heats in the men’s 110-metre hurdles at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as Orlando Bennett, Tyler Mason and Demario Prince booked their spots in the semifinals. Mason was fastest...

Orlando Bennett to use experience in quest for first World Champs final

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 7:35 AM

Jamaican 110-metre hurdles national champion Orlando Bennett says he will be using his experience as he aims for his first-ever final appearance at the World Athletics Championships. In his fourth World Championships appearance, Bennett is...

Mojito lands Mattis Memorial feature

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MOJITO, the horse who promised much, crowned champion two-year-old in 2022 and unbeaten in five starts after winning the 2023 Guineas by 12 lengths, yesterday won his third race in 10 months, yet another overnight-allowance victory, but impressive...

Arnett end Maroons’ unbeaten run

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott and Ashley Anguin/Gleaner Writers

Arnett Gardens ended Chapelton Maroons’ perfect start to the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), handing the Clarendon team their first defeat and knocking them off the top of the standings yesterday. Roderick Granville got the game’s only goal in the...

One last time

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

TOKYO, Japan: After leaving the track in her final individual race at the World Athletics Championships yesterday, Jamaican sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took the time to reflect on her illustrious career, while praising the rise of the next...

‘I wanted to give up’

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

TOKYO, Japan: While celebrating her first-ever global medal in the women’s 100 metres at the Tokyo World Athletes Championships yesterday, Jamaica’s Tina Clayton revealed she would have quit the sport last year if not for the support of her mother...

World Champs schedule

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Evening Session Day 4 (Tuesday September 16) 5:35 am: Men’s 800 Metres Heats 5:40 am: Women’s Triple Jump Qualification 6:36 am: Men’s High Jump Final 6:40 am: Men’s 110 Metres Hurdles Semi-Final 7:01 am: Men’s Hammer Throw Final 7:07 am: Women’s...

Past The Finishing Post

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Sep 14, 2025 Race Results Race 1 Purse $700,000 3YO...

Williams over the moon after breaking 50-second barrier

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:08 AMKeith McGhie/Contributor

Stacey-Ann Williams smashed the 50-second barrier for the first time in her career to lead a triumphant trio of Jamaicans through the 400m heats on day two of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In the immediate wake of all but...

Williams fully focused ahead of 100m hurdles semis

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:08 AMKeith McGhie/Contributor

Danielle Williams celebrated her birthday by leading Jamaica’s three competitors into the second round of the 100-metre hurdles, before emphasising how inspirational iconic teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is in terms of longevity. Double World...

‘I’ll come back bigger and better’

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:07 AMKeith McGhie/Contributor

TENACIOUS QUALIFYING performances from Bovel McPherson, Rusheen McDonald and Delano Kennedy were slightly overshadowed by the comprehensive elimination of defending champion Antonio Watson in the heats of the men’s 400 metres at the World Athletics...

STETHS’ struggles continue, Cambridge earn draw

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

BEN FRANCIS Cup champions St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) are yet to register a goal, much less a win, in this season’s ISSA daCosta Cup, as they drew 0-0 in their Zone E match on Saturday. STETHS’ Kaieem Lewis had multiple clear...

Oblique Seville triumphant; Kishane Thompson takes silver

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 8:50 AM

Oblique Seville has earned his first global individual medal, taking the men’s 100-metre World Athletics Championships title in a new personal best of 9.77 seconds at the Japan National Stadium. Compatriot Kishane Thompson claimed the silver...

Tina Clayton mines silver in women’s 100m

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 8:41 AM

Jamaica’s rising starlet Tina Clayton ran a new personal best of 10.76 seconds on her way to the silver medal in the women’s 100 metres at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships at the Japan National Stadium. USA’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden took...

Seville, Thompson into men's 100m final; Blake misses the mark

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 7:50 AM

Jamaica will have two competitors in the final of the men’s 100 metres at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships as Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson booked their spots in comfortable fashion. Akeem Blake, Jamaica’s other entrant, failed to...

Jamaican sprint queens comfortably into 100m final

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 7:38 AM

It was a safe passage to the final of the women’s 100 metres for all three Jamaicans as Tina Clayton, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson all punched their tickets at the World Athletics Championships in comfortable fashion. Shericka...

JC make dominant start to title-chasing season

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 12:16 AMRobert Bailey - Gleaner Writer

FORMER CHAMPIONS Jamaica College (JC) began their quest to lift the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup title with an effortless 7-0 victory over St Mary’s College at the Ashenheim Stadium yesterday. JC were led to victory, courtesy of a hat-trick from Dwayne...

Supernatural Power continues winstreak with Thunderbird Trophy

Published:Sunday | September 14, 2025 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER yesterday chalked her fifth win from seven starts, easily tracking ridden-without-a-purpose MAMMA MIA, going by the native speedster while on the bridle entering the stretch run of the seven-furlong Thunderbird...

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