by Hubert Lawrence | August 7, 2021 | Athlete's Performances
Day 9 – Evening Nine medals for Jamaica! Jamaica finished the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with nine medals, all from athletics. Four gold, one silver and four bronze. The 4x400m women’s team added one bronze to the medal tally on the final day when the quartet of...
by Hubert Lawrence | August 3, 2021 | Athlete's Performances
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah made history on Tuesday, August 03 at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan with an eye-popping 200 metres victory. The 29-year-old sprinter broke a 30-year-old national record set by Merlene Ottey and became the first woman to...
by Hubert Lawrence | August 3, 2021 | Athlete's Performances
Photo Credit: https://www.teamja.org/archives/14855 Jamaica’s distinguished record in the 100-metre hurdles reached an important level at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Jamaica with a bronze medal for national champion Megan Tapper. The diminutive...
by Hubert Lawrence | July 29, 2021 | Athlete's Performances
The Olympic track and field programme begins today and on the schedule is the first round of an event in which most pundits expect a Jamaican bonanza. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the 2008 and 2012 winner, 2016 champion Elaine Thompson-Herah and sprint newcomer Shericka...
by Hubert Lawrence | July 20, 2021 | Athlete's Performances, Track
When Herb McKenley won the silver medal in the 100 metres in the 1952 Olympics, he wrote the first chapter in Jamaica’s memorable history in sprinting. When Tyquendo Tracey, Yohan Blake and Oblique Seville go to the blocks for the 100 metres on July 28, they...
by Hubert Lawrence | July 6, 2021 | Athlete's Performances
Twenty-Three (23) Jamaicans will converge in Fayetteville at the University of Arkansas to contest the NCAA Indoor Championships, which begins on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Led by triple jump favourite Carey McLeod and precocious hurdler Ackera Nugent, they will seek...
