Jamaican Olympian Oblique Seville is ready to test himself against some of the world’s best sprinters when the Grand Slam Track Series kicks off Friday night at the National Stadium in Kingston—his first serious outing since suffering an injury in the 100m final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
One of the greatest 400m hurdlers in history, Dalilah Muhammad, has confirmed that 2025 will be her final year in track and field, bringing an extraordinary career to a close. The 2016 Olympic champion made the announcement during a media engagement at the AC Hotel in Kingston on Thursday, ahead of the start of the Grand Slam Track Series, which begins later today at the National Stadium.
Triple Olympic gold medallist Gabby Thomas says Jamaica is the perfect place to launch the new Grand Slam Track series, not just because of the island’s legendary status in global track and field, but also because of her personal ties—her father is Jamaican.
The Jamaica Scorpions backed up their tidy batting performance with a fiery bowling display to seize early control of their sixth-round West Indies Championship clash against hosts Trinidad and Tobago Red Force at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy on Thursday.
Fresh off winning her first global medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, rising Jamaican sprint hurdler Ackera Nugent is buzzing with excitement—not just for what she’s already accomplished, but for what lies ahead this weekend at the Grand Slam Track and Field Meet in Kingston.
Olympic and world champion Omar McLeod is ready to deliver a double act at this weekend’s Grand Slam Track and Field Meet in Kingston, as he lines up in both the 100m and 110m hurdles. But while the 2016 Olympic gold medallist once flirted with the idea of walking away from the hurdles to focus solely on the 100m, a return to form under new coaching guidance has renewed his love for the event that made him a global star.
A five-wicket haul from Ronaldo Alimohamed and a half-century from Matthew Nandu led a spirited fightback by the Guyana Harpy Eagles on day two of their sixth-round West Indies Championship fixture against the Leeward Islands Hurricanes at Warner Park in St. Kitts on Thursday.
Half centuries from captain Teddy Bishop and Mbeki Joseph have the West Indies Academy holding a slight advantage over the Combined Campuses and Colleges halfway through their sixth-round West Indies Championship fixture at the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground in St. Augustine.
A vastly improved batting performance on Thursday's second day has put Windward Islands Volcanoes in the driver’s seat in their sixth-round West Indies Championship encounter against Barbados Pride at the Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium.
The start lists for the inaugural Grand Slam Track meet set for April 4-6 at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica have been announced and fans can look forward to exciting clashes in just about every event.
The athletes for the three-day meet have been divided into 12 categories and will all compete in two events, each.
