Archive for category: Track and Field

  • Blake ready to start his 100 meters campaign

    Blake ready to start his 100 meters campaign

    Track and Field May 9, 2012 12:08 pm no comments

    World 100 meters Champion, Yohan Blake, fresh from his world leading time over the 200 meters at the Jamaica International meet on Saturday, (19.91 secs), will run his first short sprint of the outdoor season, at the inaugural Cayman Islands Invitational, at the Treman Booden Stadium on Wednesday. The 22 [...]

     
  • Mona a replica of Prep Champs

    Mona a replica of Prep Champs

    Track and Field May 8, 2012 7:39 pm no comments

    This weekend’s Mona Invitational Track meet, will be the best preparation ground for the Inter-preparatory School Championships, says meet manager Courtland Soares. The 10th staging of the annual event will be held at a new venue on Saturday (May 12), the National Stadium East track, and should see the participation [...]

     
  • Foster-Hylton back with a bang at JN track meet.

    Foster-Hylton back with a bang at JN track meet.

    Track and Field May 6, 2012 5:14 am no comments

    World Leading, Personal Bests and Championship records fell, but 2009 100 meters hurdles Women’s Champion, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, sizzled at the JN Jamaica International Invitational Track and Field meet on Saturday, at the National Stadium. The 36 year old who was injured in 2010, clocked a seasons best of 12.51 secs [...]

     
  • Spence in Asafa out

    Spence in Asafa out

    Track and Field May 4, 2012 7:38 pm no comments

    Lansford Spence, will replace Olympic relay gold medalist, Asafa Powell, in the 200 meters at Saturday’s staging of the JN Jamaica International Invitational Track and Field meet at the National Stadium. Powell’s track club, MVP, informed meet director, Donald Quarrie C.D., in an email on Friday morning, that the athlete [...]

     
  • Asafa out of JN meet

    Asafa out of JN meet

    Track and Field May 4, 2012 3:07 pm no comments

    Olympic relay gold medalist, Asafa Powell, will be a no show at Saturday’s (May 5) JN Jamaica International Invitational Track and Field meet at the National Stadium. The MVP Club athlete who has a personal best of 19.90 secs, was down to run the 200 meters, but pulled out of [...]

     
  • Swizzle Primary Champs Launched

    Swizzle Primary Champs Launched

    Track and Field May 3, 2012 9:49 pm no comments

    Swizzzle has pumped $10 million into this year’s 32nd staging of the INSPORTS/Swizzzle Primary School Athletics Championship, scheduled for May 9-12 at the National Stadium. The disclosure was made by Mr. Carl Domville, chief operating officer at Seprod, parent company of the premier kiddies’ drink, Swizzzle, during the symbolic cheque [...]

     
  • High school finish on a high at Penns

    High school finish on a high at Penns

    Track and Field April 29, 2012 2:40 pm no comments

    Wolmers’ Boys and Munro College were the only High School relay winners for Jamaica, on the final day of the 118th staging of the Penn Relays, in Pennsylvania on Saturday (April 28). The team of Raheem Robinson, Odean Skeen, Jermaine Fyffee and Yanick Hart, captured the High School Boys 4×100 [...]

     
  • Edwin Allen High leads Jamaica’s charge

    Edwin Allen High leads Jamaica’s charge

    Track and Field April 28, 2012 1:02 am no comments

    Once again, the school situated in Frankfield Clarendon, Edwin Allen, stood tall after the dusk settled at the end of day two, at the 118th staging of the Penn Relays, in Pennsylvania, on Friday. The Michael Dyke coached unit accounted for two relay victories on the day. The team of [...]

     
  • Thomas continue record breaking form

    Thomas continue record breaking form

    Track and Field April 27, 2012 12:59 am no comments

    The Edwin Allen flag flew high on Thursday, on the opening day of the 118th staging of the Penn Relays in Pennsylvania, when Danielle Thomas broke the girls High School Discus record, with a personal best of 51.02 meters. Thomas who copped gold at the recently held Boys and Girls [...]

     
  • JTA/Sagicor Champs change gears

    Track and Field April 26, 2012 12:18 am no comments

    The 29th staging of the JTA/Sagicor National Athletic Championships will now be extended to a two day period, for the first time in its history, when the gates open on May 18, at the National Stadium. The annual event was launched on Wednesday April 25, at the Jamaica Teacher’s Association’s [...]