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Oblique Seville, Tina Clayton crowned National Sportsman and Sportswoman for 2025
Tina Clayton and Oblique Seville
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January 18, 2026

Oblique Seville, Tina Clayton crowned National Sportsman and Sportswoman for 2025

World Championships 100m gold medallist Oblique Seville and silver medallist Tina Clayton were crowned the National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year for 2025 at the 65th staging of the RJRGleaner Sports Foundation National Awards on Saturday night.

The 24-year-old Seville was winning his first Sportsman of the Year title after winning the 2025 World Championship 100m in a blistering personal best of 9.77 and returning Jamaica on top of men’s global sprinting for the first time since Usain Bolt won the sprint double at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Seville got the nod ahead of little-known Anthony Johnson, who won Jamaica’s first-ever gold medal at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Handgun World Championship, Category Production Optics – Grand Senior. Johnson shot 100 per cent.

Meanwhile, the 21-year-old Tina Clayton notched her first Sportswoman of the Year award after copping the silver medal in the 100m at the World Championship in a personal best of 10.76.

Having won the World Under-20 100 crown twice, Clayton has stepped up to the senior ranks and delivered, showing that she is ready to take the mantle from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson Herah and Shericka Jackson.

Her biggest threat might very well come from her twin sister, Tia Clayton, prompting Fraser-Pryce to call them the “Twin Turbo”.

Sara Misir, who took bronze in Powerboating in the 2025 E1 Series Championship for Team Blue Rising, was the runner-up again in a little-known sport.

Misir also won the first Breakthrough Athlete of the Year, a new award added to the categories.

The deceased Alvin Campbell was honoured with the Chairman’s Award, and cricketer Christopher Gayle was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his remarkable record-breaking career in cricket.

Horseracing Derby winner I Dream Again was voted The People’s Choice Performance of the Year.

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