Athletics

Dr Bruce remembers Champs experience as fun

Dr Bruce remembers Champs experience as fun

IT has been 40 years since Excelsior High School (XLCR) last won the ISSA Girls' Athletics Championships, and by all indications, the Mountain View-based school does not appear set to do so anytime soon. However, the school will be lifted by the legacy Dr Andrea Bruce and her generation left behind ... Read More

Kemar Mowatt — Munro College Brains on track
When did you start track and field? I started in primary school but stopped and did not resume unti ... Read More

World youth 400m champion Martin Manley (centre) of St Jago easily wins the Under- 18 400m in an impressive 46.51 seconds. At right is KC's Nathaniel Bann who was second in 47.24. Calabar's Anthony Carpenter (left) finished sixth in 49.32 seconds. JAAA Carifta Trials pictorial
Girls' Under-18 Triple Jump Hydel High Kerr, Britn 12.56m Manchester High Wright, Shanique 1 ... Read More

Spirit of a champ! PHOTO: Spirit of a champ!
SOPOT, Poland — Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell Brown competes in the final of the women&rs ... Read More

World Indoor Championship captured in pictures

Tuesday, March 11, 2014    

The two-day IAAF World Indoor Championship staged in Sopot, Poland, had its fair share of thrills, spills, defeats and victories. Jamaica, who won five medals including one gold, finished fifth overall behind the USA, Russia, Ethiopia and Great Britain. The camera lenses of Global wire service AFP were in the Polish coastal town and captured these images. World Indoor Championship captured in pictures --> Read More

Beyond the finish line — Ramone McKenzie

Tuesday, March 11, 2014    

Ramone McKenzie

Ramone McKenzie WORLD Youth 200m champion Ramone 'Batman' McKenzie is a track star who attended Calabar High. The 'Batman' title was earned due to his favour of wearing a batman mask when competing. In 2007, he was Calabar's star in the GraceKennedy/ISSA Boys' and Girls' Championships, after setting two records in the Class Two 200m in 20.89 seconds and the Class Two 400m in 47.24 seconds. In 2008, McKenzie powered past the finish line in the 400m finals in 46.62 seconds in Class One. He ha ... Read More

City run deemed a success

BY RUDDY ALLEN | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Runners get going in the JHTA-Kingston Chapter's Kingston City Run in Kingston yesterday. (PHOTOS: GARFIELD ROBINSON).

NATIONAL cross-country runners Kirk Brown, Danielle James, Shawn Pitter and Juliette Dinnal produced impressive performances at the second staging of the Jamaica Hotel & Tourism Association (JHTA)/Kingston Chapter Kingston City Run (KCR) Half Marathon and 5K Walk/Run in Kingston yesterday. Brown ran a superb and timely race in the male's half marathon, winning in a blistering time of 1:12:23 minutes and was the overall winner ahead of Rupert Green (1:12:33) and Collin Graham (1:25:40). "Fo ... Read More

Way to go, Shelly!

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer | Monday, March 10, 2014    

SOPOT, Poland — Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates with her nation’s flag after winning the Women’s 60m event at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in the Ergo Arena in the Polish coastal town of Sopot, yesterday. (PHOTO: AFP)

JAMAICA'S Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued to accumulate global gold medals, as she added the IAAF World Indoor Championships 60m gold on yesterday's final day of the event at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland. Fraser-Pryce, who won Olympic and World Championships gold medals in the 100m in outdoor action and took triple gold last year in Moscow, ran a personal best and world-leading 6.98 seconds to win yesterday. Her debut win in Poland represents a third consecutive gold medal for Jamaica at ... Read More

Smith sends warning signal for champs

BY SHERDON COWAN | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Jonielle Smith shares a moment with her coach Michael Carr after she got up in the nick of time to win the Under-20 100-metre final at the Carifta Trials at the National Stadium on Saturday. (PHOTO: BRYAN CUMMINGS)

WOLMER'S High School''s Jonielle Smith sent out a warning to her opponents leading up to the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships when she won the Under-20 100-metre final in a tight finish at the Carifta Trials at the National Stadium on Saturday. Smith, running out of lane seven, clocked a personal best of 11:44 seconds to get the better of Holmwood Technical's Diana Johnson, and Kedisha Dallas of GC Foster College. Smith's te ... Read More

Minzie leads double winners at Carifta Trials

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer | Monday, March 10, 2014    

Bog Walk High Jevaughn Minzie (centre) powers to victory in the Boys’ Under- 20 200m on day two of the JAAA Carifta Trials at the National Stadium yesterday. Ardene High's Beresford Sweeney (left) was second, while Newell High’s Shivnarine Smalling (right) made a gallant run but did not place. (PHOTOS: BRYAN CUMMINGS)

JEVAUGHN Minzie led a series of double winners on yesterday's second day of the JAAA Carifta Trials at the National Stadium in Kingston after he cruised to an easy win in the Under-20 boys' 200m. The Bog Walk High runner who has ambitions of the Class One sprint double in his final year at the ISSA Boys Champs, ran 21.14 seconds to win the 200m beating Ardene High's Beresford Sweeney (21.31 seconds) after winning the 100m on Saturday. Chad Walker of St Jago won the Under-18 boys' 200m in ... Read More

US men's 4X400m team takes gold in record time

Monday, March 10, 2014    

SOPOT, Poland — (From left) The USA’s Kind Butler III, David Verburg, Calvin Smith and Kyle Clemons pose beside the board bearing the world record they ran in winning gold in the Men’s 4X400m relay at the World Indoor Championships at the Ergo Arena here, yesterday. (PHOTOS: AFP)

SOPOT, Poland (AP) — The United States set a world record in the 4x400 metres relay yesterday to cap a dominating performance throughout the World Indoor Championships. In the last event of the three-day meet, Kyle Clemons, David Verburg, Kind Butler III, and Calvin Smith Jr got the baton around in a time of 3:2.13 minutes, slashing .70 off the 15-year-old indoor mark set by another US relay team at the 1999 edition. The US team beat Britain into silver and Jamaica took bronze. ... Read More

Chambers sparkles at Carifta Trials

BY HOWARD WALKER Observer senior reporter walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com | Sunday, March 09, 2014    

Raheem Chambers (second right) of St Jago High looks across at his opponents after running an astonishing 10.28 seconds to win the Under-18 100m final at the Carifta Trials yesterday. At left is Akeem Bloomfield of KC, who finished second in 10.42, ahead of Chad Walker of St Jago in 10.45 seconds. At right is Leroy Francis of STETHS. (PHOTOS: BRYAN CUMMINGS)

WORLD Youth 200m champion Michael O'Hara failed to show for the Under-20 100m at the Carifta Trials after his mother and his brother were involved in motor car accident on Friday night. O'Hara, who finished fourth in the 100m at the World Youth Championships last year, later turned up at the National Stadium and told the Jamaica Observer that his mother apparently tore ligaments in her leg after being hit by a car as she bravely pulled his young brother to safety. He was not in the state of mi ... Read More

Ja open medal count

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer | Sunday, March 09, 2014    

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce competes in the women’s 60 metres Heat 2 yesterday.

KALIESE Spencer and Kimberly Williams won their first medals at the senior level as Jamaica opened their account at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, on yesterday's second and penultimate day. Spencer, who made her name in the 400m hurdles, took silver in the 400m in a personal best 51.54 seconds, while Williams took the bronze medal in the triple jump, as Jamaica matched the total medal haul from the 2012 staging in Istanbul, Turkey. The two medals left Jamaica in 14th pla ... Read More

McCarthy impresses in shot put

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer | Sunday, March 09, 2014    

Vashon McCarthy competing in the Under-18 boys’ shot put on yesterday’s opening day of the Carifta Trials at the National Stadium. (right) Edwin Allen’s Olivia Leckford during the Under-20 javelin throw event yesterday.

HAVING missed his chance to compete at the ISSA Boys' Champs due to academic ineligibility, Ascott High's Vashon McCarthy took a big step towards a second gold medal in consecutive years at the Carifta Games after throwing a personal best 18.05m to win the Under-18 boys' shot put on yesterday's first day of the Carifta Trials at the National Stadium. Both McCarthy and Cornwall College's Warren Barrett Jnr, who threw a personal best 17.90m for second place, would have decimated the old Under-1 ... Read More



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