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Tokyo 2025: Lloydricia Cameron fails to get past first round of shot put
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Tokyo 2025: Lloydricia Cameron fails to get past first round of shot put
September 19, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Lloydricia Cameron failed to qualify for the final of the women’s shot put after throwing 17.77m in the first round of the World A...
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Tokyo 2025: Ryan Crouser of the United States wins third straight world title
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Tokyo 2025: Ryan Crouser of the United States wins third straight world title
September 13, 2025
TOKYO, Japan (AFP)-Ryan Crouser made light of having missed most of the season through injury to become only the second man to win three successive wo...
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National Trials 2025: Shaiquan Dunn wins shot put title
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National Trials 2025: Shaiquan Dunn wins shot put title
June 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Shaiquan Dunn won his first senior national title after throwing 18.33m to win the men’s shot put on Sunday’s final day of the JAA...
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National Trials 2025: Thomas-Dodd wins 10-straight national shot put titles
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National Trials 2025: Thomas-Dodd wins 10-straight national shot put titles
June 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica —Danniel Thomas-Dodd won a 10th straight women’s shot put national title after she threw 18.33m in Saturday’s final at the JAAA Nati...
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National Trials 2025: Wray wins U20 shot
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National Trials 2025: Wray wins U20 shot
June 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Kingston College’s Despiro Wray won the Boys Under -20 shot put on Friday’s second day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Ass...
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National Trials 2025: Wray wins U20 shot
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National Trials 2025: Wray wins U20 shot
June 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Kingston College’s Despiro Wray won the Boys Under -20 shot put on Friday’s second day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Ass...
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Kobe Lawrence takes fourth in NCAA men’s shot put
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Kobe Lawrence takes fourth in NCAA men’s shot put
June 12, 2025
Former Jamaican junior representative Kobe Lawrence of the University of Oregon placed fourth in the men’s shot put after throwing a personal best 20....
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KC’s Despiro Wray heads to FSU
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KC’s Despiro Wray heads to FSU
May 27, 2025
Kingston College (KC) standout thrower Despiro Wray has enrolled with Florida State University (FSU). Wray, who has been having an impressive season i...
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Brandon Lloyd finish second in  Big 12 Championships
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Brandon Lloyd finish second in Big 12 Championships
May 17, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Brandon Lloyd of Arizona State University was second in the men’s shot put at the Big12 Outdoor track and field championships at th...
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KC’s Despiro Wray wins shot put at Penn Relays
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KC’s Despiro Wray wins shot put at Penn Relays
April 24, 2025
Kingston College’s Despiro Wray added another title to his list of achievements this season after winning the shot put on Thursday’s opening day of th...
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Kennedy wins Austin Sealy Award as Jamaica top Carifta medal table
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Kennedy wins Austin Sealy Award as Jamaica top Carifta medal table
April 21, 2025
Jamaica’s double record breaker Kamari Kennedy was named winner of the Austin Sealy Award, presented to the most outstanding athlete, at the 52nd Cari...
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#Champs2025: Excelsior’s Kimeka Smith wins girls’ Class 1 shot put
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#Champs2025: Excelsior’s Kimeka Smith wins girls’ Class 1 shot put
March 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Excelsior High’s Kimeka Smith took the gold medal in the Class One girls’ shot put after throwing 15.02m on Saturday’s final day o...
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#Champs2025: Farquharson throws PB to lead Class 1 shot put qualifiers
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#Champs2025: Farquharson throws PB to lead Class 1 shot put qualifiers
March 28, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Cornwall College’s Mar-Lando Farquharson threw a massive personal best 19.04m in Friday’s preliminaries to lead the qualifying for...
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#Champs2025: CC’s Marla Kay Lampart has date with destiny
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#Champs2025: CC’s Marla Kay Lampart has date with destiny
March 26, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Clarendon College’s Marla Kay Lampart has a date with destiny on Saturday when she will have the meet record of 15.33m in the girl...
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World Indoors: Rajindra Campbell ninth in shot put
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World Indoors: Rajindra Campbell ninth in shot put
March 23, 2025
Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell finished ninth in the men’s shot put at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China with a best mark of 20....
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British shot put great Geoff Capes dies aged 75
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British shot put great Geoff Capes dies aged 75
October 23, 2024
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and twice the world's strongest man, has died aged 75, his family said....
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Dunn and Wright place seventh at World Under-20 Champs
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Dunn and Wright place seventh at World Under-20 Champs
August 31, 2024
LIMA, Peru – Jamaica’s 400m hurdler Daniel Wright and shot putter Shaiquan Dunn were seventh in the finals of their respective events under another co...
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Dunn qualifies for shot put final at World Under-20
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Dunn qualifies for shot put final at World Under-20
August 27, 2024
LIMA, Peru— Shaiquan Dunn advanced to Tuesday evening’s final of the men’s shot put after throwing 19.53m in the qualifying round at the World Athleti...
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Rajindra Campbell wins shot put at Germany meet
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Rajindra Campbell wins shot put at Germany meet
August 16, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell on Friday won the men’s shot put event at the Internationaler Thumer Werfertag in Germany. Campbell wo...
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#ParisOlympics: Thomas-Dodd cites absence of coach for narrow miss in shot put final
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#ParisOlympics: Thomas-Dodd cites absence of coach for narrow miss in shot put final
August 8, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — There were contrasting emotions expressed by Jamaican shot putters Danniel Thomas-Dodd and Lloydricia Cameron after the duo’s hope...
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#ParisOlympics: Women shot putters miss out on finals
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#ParisOlympics: Women shot putters miss out on finals
August 8, 2024
Both Jamaican shot put throwers Danielle Thomas-Dodd and Lloydricia Cameron just failed to advance to the finals of their event in Thursday’s morning ...
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#ParisOlympics: Historic shot put bronze medal for Rajindra Campbell at Olympics
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#ParisOlympics: Historic shot put bronze medal for Rajindra Campbell at Olympics
August 3, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Rajindra Campbell created history on Saturday when he became the first Jamaican to win a medal in the shot put event at the Olympic...
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