Jamaica finished first and second in the men’s 200m race at the Moscow World Championships yesterday. For the third time in as many Championships, Usain Bolt struck gold in the event.
Jamaica finished first and second in the men’s 200m race at the Moscow World Championships yesterday. For the third time in as many Championships, Usain Bolt struck gold in the event.
Jamaica closed out the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow today with gold medals in the men’s and women’s sprint relays and a Championship record for the women.
The 2013 World 100m gold medalist, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, grabbed another medal, the first of two for Jamaica today, the seventh day of competition at the Moscow IAAF World Championships.
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Jamaica’s 2008 and 2012 Olympic 100m gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce defied a slight pain she felt after her semi-final run and stormed to a world leading 10.71secs for victory over a strong field at the Moscow, Russia World Championships yesterday.
The sprint double world record holder defeated the challenge by USA’s Justin Gatlin, who got out ahead of him, to regain the title in a modest-by-Bolt’s-standard 9.77secs (-0.3).
Devon Grant has had real tangible success as a coach since the Mavis Bank Track Club was formed just over a year ago.
Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Warren Weir and Racers Track Club of Jamaica all turned in fine performances at the two-day London Diamond League meet this past Friday and Saturday.
Asafa Powell’s trainer said yesterday he should not be blamed for a banned stimulant found in Powell’s system, and the embattled Jamaican sprinter has returned home to Kingston from Italy days after learning that he had tested positive for oxilofrine (methylsynephrine) at the Jamaica National Trials in June. His training partner Sherone Simpson also tested positive for the same substance.
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 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 7th 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