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Exciting 4 Confirmed for New York Grand Prix
High jumper Bohdan Bondarenko of Ukraine will make his U.S. debut when he competes at the adidas Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium in New York on June 6. He is the reigning World high jump champion, who was honored as 2013 Male Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News magazine. Last season, the…
Read MoreStealthy Cougars Strike Twice in New York City PSAL
New York – The drought has ended for Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College Preparatory High School, also known as the Cougars, when both their girls and boys track and field teams were crowned New York City Public School Athletic League (PSAL) champions at the recent 2013-2014 Indoor Track and Field City Championships. The win was even…
Read MoreRussell, McPherson, Morrison, Jackson: The Emerging MVP Women
While Racers Track Club has a lock for now on the top male sprinters in Jamaica and the world, its counterpart MVP, just a stone’s throw away, is reloading its cannon of the best female athletes in the island and in one case the world. Racers is loaded with Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Warren Weir,…
Read MorePocket Rocket Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Strikes Again
Olympic and World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce added the 60m title to her name yesterday when she took victory in a world-leading personal best (PB) of 6.98secs at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. The win makes Fraser-Pryce the second woman in history, after her compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown, to win World titles in the 60m,…
Read MoreUSA Men Erase 15-year-old Relay World Record
The USA men’s 4x400m relay team brought the curtain down on the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland Sunday with a new world record that erase the old mark of 3:02.83, established by the Americans in 1999. The quartet of Kyle Clemons, David Verburg, Kind Butler, and Calvin Smith, in that order posted 3mins,…
Read MoreBritain’s Kilty Takes 60m Dash over Favorites at World Indoors
Britain’s Richard Kilty stormed to victory in the men’s 60m dash at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Sopot, Poland, yesterday, leaving the highly fancied Marvin Bracey of the USA in second place and another favorite, Jamaica’s 2012 silver medalist Nesta Carter, in the seventh spot. Bracy registered 6.51 for the silver and Qatar’s Femi…
Read MoreThe Challenge of Team Selection for the World Relays
Although the addition of the IAAF World Relays Championships has caused challenges for the selection of national teams, numerous federations have resorted to various options for solution. Most national championships occur either at the end of June or during July after the World Relays Championships. Only federations in the southern hemisphere like Australia and South…
Read MoreWho’s Ready to Take up the Mantle of Men’s Sprinting in Jamaica
NEW YORK— It is a given that Jamaicans are blessed with great sprint speed. Therefore international success should not necessarily be surprising. Our track regimen is Jamaica-specific. It is perhaps not unlike what is found in parts of the Motherland. Africa is known for impressing in middle and long distance races. I am not entirely…
Read MoreClemson’s Mark Elliot: A Tiger by Another Name
A Tiger by any other name is still a Tiger. That is the case with Mark Elliot, who landed his dream job last summer as head coach for a college track and field team that’s ranked one of the best in the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 conference. Elliott spent 20 seasons with…
Read MoreAntigua’s Daniel Bailey Back on Track This Season
With his injuries behind him, Antiguan sprinter Daniel Bailey clocked 10.15secs over 100m at the Camperdown Classic in Kingston on Saturday, February 8. The last time Bailey was seen in competition, he was eliminated in the early rounds of qualifying at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, when he was able to muster only a…
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