Jamaica Track & Field and Cross Country News

Jamaica topped the medal table at a major world championship for the first time after topping the tally eight medals including six gold and two bronze at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Jamaica is known as a country of great sprinters but in recent times the exploits of the University of Arkansas's Kemoy Campbell in the 5000m and Louisiana State's Natoya Goule in the 800m have shown that the country also has promise in the middle distance events.

 

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Jamaican runner Novlene Williams-Mills ran in the 2012 Olympics with a secret. She took fifth in the 400m and won a bronze with the Jamaican 400m relay team with information that only she, her husband, and select close friends knew. … Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

Jamaican high school athlete Javon Francis made history in the month of June when he clocked a personal best and junior world leading 45.24 seconds to finish second in the men’s 400m Jamaica’s National Senior Championships at Kingston’s National Stadium.

Asafa Powell rebounded from his disappointing 7^th place finish at the Jamaica Trials last week to win at yesterday’s Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic.

Louisiana State’s Natoya Goule made the qualifying standard for the 2013 IAAF Worl Championships in Athletics after posting a personal best 1:59.58 to win the women’s 800m at the Jamaica National Championships in Kingston on Saturday.

World record holder Usain Bolt cruised to victory in the men’s 100m at the Jamaica Senior Athletics Championships in Kingston on Friday evening. Bolt who posted 10.03 seconds in winning the first of the semi-finals pulled ahead mid-race to post 9.94 seconds for victory ahead of his Racer’s Track Club team mate Kemar Bailey-Cole in 9.98 seconds and Nickel Ashmeade in 9.99 seconds.

Several Jamaican athletes were in the winner’s circle at the NCAA Division One Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Natoya Goule prepared for the country’s national championships at the end of the month by winning the women’s 800m outdoor Goule became the first Louisiana State University Lady Tiger to win both indoor and outdoor titles after capturing the event in a personal best 2:00.06 – the fourth fastest time in LSU history.

Michael O'Hara of Calabar continued his brilliant season by setting a world youth leading times in taking the double sprint titles at Jamaica's national junior championships on the weekend.

Two-time double Olympic champion Usain Bolt was defeated by Justin Gatlin in the 100m dash at yesterday’s Golden Gala in Rome.

It was Bolt’s third defeat in a Diamond League 100m race since he first broke the world record in 2008. He was beaten that year in the Swedish capital Stockholm by his countryman Asafa Powell and again by the American Tyson Gay in 2010 in that same city.

Double world record holder Usain Bolt told the world Tuesday that he wants to continue dominating sprinting until the Brazil 2016 Olympics. He also dismissed the recent criticisms he got over something he thought was not a big deal.

With the national senior championships two weeks away Jamaican athletes will be on double duty this weekend at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in the USA as they aim for both national college titles and as well as to make the qualifying standards for this summer’s IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

The much anticipated 100-meter clash between Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown materialized today at the 39th annual edition of the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, with Frazer-Pryce taking the top spot.

Jamaica’s 2012 Olympic 110-meter hurdles bronze medalist Hansle Parchment ran a world-leading time of 13.05 seconds (0.9m/s), a national record, to win the event at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon today.

Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment clocked a new Jamaican record 13.05 seconds to win the men’s 110m hurdles at the Prefontaine Classic IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday.

Nickel Ashmeade

Adidas Press Conference 2013 (Nickel Ashmeade)

Nickel_Ashmeade (Jamaica) surrounded by reporters at the Adidas Press Conference at the Grand Hyatt NYC

Veronica Campbell-Brown

  Sanya Richards-Ross -left and Veronica Campbell-Brown speaking to reporter at the Grand Prix Press Conference at the Grand Hyatt NYC on Thursday May 23,2013

Sanya Richards-Ross

Sherone Simpson

Kemoy Campbell, Keiron Stewart, Nikita Tracey, Goule, Haye leading the Collegiate pack

Jamaica's Athletes serenade the world. From China to the USA

Photos by Clifton Edwards

The Puma/Fortis 5K awardees. Congratulations to Dominic Powell for winning the inaguaral championships.

New York boasts its deepest fields ever – IAAF Diamond League (via iaaf.org)

The USA's Tyson Gay signalled a return to form with a world leading 9.86 seconds to win the men's 100m at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet at Kingston's National Stadium on Saturday.


 

1. Veronica Campbell-Brown Jamaica  11.01

2. Kelly-Ann Baptiste Trinidad and Tobago 11.06

3. Carrie Russell Jamaica 11.08

4. Muriel Ahoure Cote d'Ivoire 11.11

5 Allyson Felix USA 11.13

PHILADELPHIA, USA — Calabar High School's Jevon Francis was named the Penn Relays High School Boy Athlete for Relay Events after his amazing 44.9 seconds anchor to secure his team's win of the Championships of Americas 4x400m relays at Frankl ... (via Jamaica Observer)

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Double world record holder and six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has been forced to withdraw from this Saturday's Jamaica International Invitational (JII) at the National Stadium after a setback in training over t ... (via Jamaica Observer)

Milesplit Webmaster Noel  Spencer interview by veteran Journalist Ed Barnes Saturday April 27,2013 at Penn Relay Philadelphia Pennsylvania.   

Four Teams from Jamaica qualify for the 4x 400 Championship of America Race

Gleneve Grange sets New Jamaica Junior National Record, at same time establishes New Penn Relay Carnival Record

The Penn Relays, Gleneve Grange and her coach of Holmwood Technical. Photo produced by Paul Everett of MoMilesplit.com

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