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Toast of CARIFTA Games 2022
Sixteen-year-old Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) was the toast of the 49th CARIFTA Games held over three days in Kingston, Jamaica, April 16-18. She won the Austin Sealy Award reserved for the athlete voted the most outstanding at each renewal of the Games. Among former and current athletes who have won the coveted…
Read MoreChamps 2020: KC Dethrones JC, Edwin Allen Retains Girls Title
The 111-year-old ISSA Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, widely known as Champs, ended last Saturday evening (April 9) in its usual blaze of glory. Defending girls champions Edwin Allen retained their title while Kingston College (KC), last year’s runners up, dethroned defending champions and archrivals Jamaica College (JC) for the boys title. Both teams streaked home…
Read MoreThe Ryan Crouser’s Shot Put World Record That Wasn’t
The January 29 Millrose Games in New York was in full run with warmth all around as a snowstorm blanketed the arena. Inside, athletes were running, jumping, and throwing indoor, but it was another Ryan Crouser moment in the putter’s circle. For about an hour-and-a-half, track and field fans inside the Armory at the top…
Read MoreNo More USA vs. The World on Penn Saturdays
The 126th running of the Penn Relays will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field, April 28 to 30, and the Philadelphia, USA-based carnival will be different from how it was in 2019, after which the event was suspended because of Covid-19. There will be no more USA vs. The World, an Olympic-development-segment…
Read MoreSprint Relay World Record for Jamaican High School Girls
A Jamaican high school girls sprint team ran a high school 4x100m relay world record today at the scaled-down 45th staging of the Gibson-McCook Relays in the Kingston. The crack squad of Class One girls (ages 17-19) Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Brandy Hall, and Tina’s twin, Tia, in that running order, scorched the track at…
Read MoreFor Thompson-Herah and Warholm, 2021 A season Like No Other
What a year it was for a flat sprinter and a hurdler, worlds apart! After a four-year roller coaster ride burdened with an Achilles tendon injury, frustration, doubt and tears, the 2021 season turned out for Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah to be one of personal records, super-fast times, and accolades coming from as far away as…
Read MoreTrack and Field Resets Clock with World Records and More
After one long year of no Olympics, no New York Millrose Games, no Caribbean regional CARIFTA Games, no Jamaica Boys and Girls Championships that the world has come to know about, track and field has stepped up its speed to full return amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Just over two weeks ago, Jamaica was given the…
Read MoreNo Penn Relays, But Here’s The Plan
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics has announced that the 2021 Penn Relays, originally scheduled for April 22 through 24, has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and local restrictions on large gatherings. According to a release from the UPenn Division…
Read MoreAs The Track & Field World Turns to Kenya
Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (May 7) • Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce posted the fastest 100m in the world this year, 10.67secs, to win her season opener at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold May 7 meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The 35-year-old, who has won eight Olympic medals including silver in Tokyo last summer, was a comfortable…
Read MoreEdwin Allen’s Super Relay Team Strikes Again
Jamaica’s Edwin Allen High School’s Class Two sprint relay quartet of Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Brandy Hall, and Tia Clayton yesterday ran the fastest time on Jamaican soil by any high school girls sprint relay team. The super squad of three 15-years-olds in twins Tia and Tina, and Serena Cole and 16-year-old Brandy Hall not…
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