Jamaica ended the penultimate day on a high by winning three of the four sprint relays. (via Jamaica Gleaner)
Jamaica ended the penultimate day on a high by winning three of the four sprint relays. (via Jamaica Gleaner)
The changes are set to come into effect by the next edition scheduled for the French Island of Martinique. (via Jamaica Gleaner)
NASSAU, Bahamas:AT press time last night, Jamaica continued to rack up the medals at the Carifta Games; five coming in the intermediate hurdles with gold medals from Omar McLeod and Kimone Green helping the country's... (via jamaica-gleaner.com)
Jamaican athletes will be hoping to end their sojourn at the Games on a high as the action continues this afternoon. (via Jamaica Gleaner)
If Jamaica is to win a 29th straight CARIFTA track and field title at this weekend's 42nd staging in The Bahamas, they will have to do so without the contribution of Michael O'Hara, who was withdrawn from the team yesterday, reports out of Nassau ... (via Jamaica Observer)
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - Jamaica are well on the way to winning a 29th straight CARIFTA Games track and field championships after ending the second day of the three-day event at the Thomas A Robinson stadium in Nassau, Bahamas with 50 medals, well a ... (via Jamaica Observer)
Jamaica’s Gleneve Grange in action in the Girls’ 800m at the 42nd CARIFTA Games Track and Field Championships at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, yesterday. (PHOTO: ANTHONY FOSTER)
AFTER winning just one of four 100m gold medals on Saturday, Jamaica's sprinters roared back decisively last night winning three of four 4x100m relays on the second day of the 42nd CARIFTA Games Track and Field Championships at the brand new 15,0 ... (via Jamaica Observer)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Usain Bolt opened his season with a 150-metre win on a track set up at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Bolt cruised to victory in 14.42 seconds, falling short of the world-best mark of 14.35 he set on the ... (via Jamaica Observer)
Jamaica’s Nattaliah Whyte (second right) powers through the finish line to win the girls’ Under-17 100m final ahead of Nelda Huggings (right) of the British Virgin Islands, and compatriot Shellece Clarke (left) at the 42nd CARIFTA Games at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, The Bahamas last evening. Whyte won in a time of 11.88 seconds. (PHOTO: TRACKALERTS)
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JAMAICA'S woes in the shortest sprint at the CARIFTA Games over the past three years continued on yesterday's opening day of the 42nd staging of the regional championships at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, The Bahamas as they won just one o ... (via Jamaica Observer)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Jamaican former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell suffered a tight hamstring yesterday which he said would prevent him from running in Australia's Stawell Gift. Although his backup team said Powell could stil ... (via Jamaica Observer)
FROM yesterday through tomorrow, athletes from across the Caribbean will gather in Nassau, the Bahamas, for the 42nd annual Carifta Track and Field Championships. The event takes place under the theme, 'A Celebration of Caribbean Unity', and regio ... (via Jamaica Observer)
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WHEN Jamaica's athletes compete at the 2013 Carifta Games this weekend, six individuals will be hoping to defend their titles successfully following victories a year ago.Sprinter Jazeel Murphy, hurdler Omar McLeod, pole... (via jamaica-gleaner.com)
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Chanice Porter's outdoor debut at the University of Georgia has been pushed back to about mid-April as she rests an injured ankle. The IAAF World Youth Championships long jump gold medallist and high jump bronze medal ... (via Jamaica Observer)
MONTEGO BAY, St James — David Riley, head coach of the Jamaican team that was named yesterday to take part in next weekend's 41st staging of the CARIFTA Championships in The Bahamas, says he is happy with the 70-member squad he has been hande ... (via Jamaica Observer)
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The 103rd ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls Athletics Championships, known globally as 'Champs', ended on Saturday night in a blaze of glory and the pyrotechnics that followed the final races paled in comparison to th ... (via Jamaica Observer)
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — The performance of Munro College's Delano Williams — a citizen of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) — at the recent Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championship in Kingston, Jamaica on Wednesday came ... (via Jamaica Observer)
A look at Jamaica Champs 2013 and why young regional athletes want to be there. (via www.caribbeanintelligence.com)
(L-R) MATHERSON ... can challenge World Youth record. MCLEOD ... sensational victory in 110 M hurdles
Years from now, track and field fans in Jamaica will still be talking about the Inter-Schools Athletics Championships (Champs) 2013 as arguably the best ever. The unprecedented number of records; fierceness of the competition almost down to the ... (via Jamaica Observer)
Jamaica looks again at its school transfer window for athletes. (via www.caribbeanintelligence.com)
DESPITE collapsing and dramatically losing the Inter Secondary Schools' Association (ISSA) GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships by just five points, Edwin Allen's head coach Michael Dyke still believes his team is 100 points be ... (via Jamaica Observer)
MICHAEL O'Hara of boys' champions Calabar High and St Jago High's Class Four treble gold medal winner Kimone Shaw were the overall individual points champions at the 103rd ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships that closed in a ... (via Jamaica Observer)
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) this morning released a 70-member squad to defend the island’s CARIFTA Games title next week at the 41st staging of the regional Championships in the Bahamas March 30- ... (via Jamaica Observer)
CALABAR High School's victory at the 103rd ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' Championships at the weekend has been hailed as a demonstration of great talent by one the school's most distinguished past students -- former Prime Minister P J Patterson. (via Jamaica Observer)
CALABAR High School roared loudly on the final day to successfully defend the Mortimor Geddes trophy — symbol of schoolboys' track and field supremacy — when they strolled to an easy victory on yesterday's final day of the 103rd ISSA/Gra ... (via Jamaica Observer)