Jamaica Gleaner Sport
Published: Monday Tuesday | September 1, 2009
Ver rebounds - Jamaicans dominant at Zagreb meet
ZAGREB, Croatia (CMC): Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown rekindled her winning ways, while world champion Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados captured his first race since his stunning Berlin triumph at the 59th IAAF Zagreb Grand Prix in Croatia yesterday... Read More...
Bolt to run 200m at World Athletics Final
MONACO (AP): Usain Bolt has confirmed that he will run the 200 metres at the IAAF World Athletics Final this month in Greece, the international athletics federation said yesterday.The Jamaican sprinter shattered world records in the 100 and 200 metres... Read More...
Red-hot Brigitte extends streak
LONDON, England (CMC): Jamaicas new world sprint hurdles champion, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, sustained her winning form with a fine victory at the IAAF Aviva British Grand Prix yesterday. Running into a headwind, the veteran Foster-Hylton clocked 12.88... Read More...
Winning return for Simpson
OLYMPIC 100 metres silver medallist, Sherone Simpson, led a trio of winning Jamaican athletes at the XXX111 Cittadi Padova Track and Field meet in Italy on Sunday. Nickeisha Wilson and Ainsley Waugh were the other Jamaicans... Read More...
NBL tip-off next weekend
Ajani Williams, president of the Jamaica Basketball Association (JBA) said the long-awaited tip-off of the National Basketball League (NBL) is set for next weekend at the National Stadium, with an opening ceremony and dress parade... Read More...
West Indies stars provide expertise at Digicel Clinic
Twenty-four of the nation's top Under-15 cricketers are getting first-hand tips from West Indies cricketers Chris Gayle and Jerome Taylor, along with former players Kenny Benjamin, Jimmy Adams and Robert Samuels at the Digicel Cricket Clinic, which began yesterday... Read More...
Windies not second string
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Interim West Indies coach David Williams has refused to label the Champions Trophy squad as second string.The 14-man squad currently in training for cricket's mini World Cup in South Africa next month is missing... Read More...
Summerbell extends lead in Carib championship
Jamaica's David Summerbell proved why he has been rated among the top contenders for the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) title, when he gave a scintillating performance at the Bushy Park race track in Barbados to maintain his lead... Read More...
Fitzgerald delighted as Scotia 'dig deep' to win title
Scotiabank and Petrojam captured the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Business House division one and two titles, respectively, on Saturday at the University of the West Indies Bowl. Scotiabank recorded a 1-0 victory over The Gleaner... Read More...
St Ann Bauxite, Up Park Camp for T20 openers
Jamaica Defence Force's Up Park Camp and St Ann Cricket Association's home ground, St Ann Bauxite Sports Club, formerly Kaiser Bauxite Sports Club, will host the opening rounds of the inaugural national Red Stripe Twenty20 Championship... Read More...
Fit Todd outlasts Bouland in singles finale
HANOVER: Twenty-nine-year-old Cadren Todd of Ocho Rios emerged champion of the men's open in the finals of the inaugural Iberostar Tennis Classic Tournament on Sunday at the Montego Bay-based Iberostar Suites Hotel. Todd defeated Montego Bay's Mark Bouland... Read More...
