Elaine Thompson-Herah’s 10.54 is the Legit 100m World Record

As if to show the world that her epic performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (in 2021) was no fluke, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah returned to the track for the Diamond League stop at the 2021 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, USA.  There, she scorched one of the greatest groups of elite women’s 100-meter sprinters ever…

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Is STETHS the New Sprinters’ Paradise?

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St. Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) made history at this year’s annual Jamaica Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) Boys and Girls Championships, known as Champs. On 15 May, their boys track team became the first in the 111 years of the Championships to win all three (Classes 1, 2, 3) 100m sprints finals. In that…

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Jamaica’s Natoya Goule Now a Global Challenger over 800m

Fresh off her July 13, 2018 impressive performance at the Rabat stop of the IAAF Diamond League, Jamaica’s 800-meter specialist Natoya Goule stepped up her game several notches for a Jamaica record in Monaco today (20), in a race against some of the most formidable names over the distance. Among the line-up were South Africa’s…

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High Performance, Medals for Queens Women at 2017 Worlds

It’s rare that athletes from New York City’s Public School Athletic League (PSAL) high school background go on to represent the USA in track and field at the professional and international level. At the August 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, New York City, Queens in particular, saw three of its own achieve high performance…

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Two Stunning Jamaica Champs Records by 12-, 14-yr-old Girls

Scintillating, breathtaking, amazing, and phenomenal are just a few superlatives that describe Jamaica’s 12-year-old Brianna Lyston’s time of 23.72secs. (-0.6m/s) and that of 14-year-old Kevona Davis [above], (23.07 (0.9m/s) over 200m at the 2017 and 107th edition of the Jamaica Boys and Girls Athletics Championships (Champs), March 30 – April 2. Lyston of St. Jago…

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Jamaicans Ferocious at 2015 World Championships

The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was once renowned as the Pirate Capitol of the world; these days, it is known simply as the land of reggae as well as the sprinting capital of the world.   Behaving like pirates of the Caribbean, to borrow the title of a popular movie, a contingent of 53 Jamaican athletes…

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Jamaican Girls Brought Heat on Cold Day at Penn Relays

On the opening day of the running of the 121st April Penn Relays carnival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American “City of Brotherly Love”, the temperature reached a high of only 52ºF (11.11ºC), the Jamaican High School provided much heat on the track. Even the seemingly perennial discussion on how climate affects athletes, especially the Jamaicans,…

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Spills, Thrills Highlight US High School Indoor Championships

Thrills and Spills literally highlighted the 2015 edition of USA High School Indoor New Balance Nationals (High School Track and Field Championships) March 13 to 15. Grant Fisher was running ahead of the field and the clock, and as he approached the final turn with only 20 meters to the finish line, he stepped on…

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Miami Southridge’s Gibson Sets Meet Record

Courtney Gibson of Miami Southridge High School leaped her way in the long jump records books, when she produced 17’-10¼”, a new meet record, at the Hallandale Invitational on Saturday, March 7. The 2015 Hallendale Invitational, which had more than 40 schools participating, is recognized on the Florida Athletic calendar as one of the largest…

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