Posts from — April 2011

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, USA:It’s impossible for Jamaicans to imagine any track meet featuring high school athletes bigger than the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association’s (ISSA) Boys and Girls’ Championships.

But for the athletes on St George’s College’s 4×100 team, who made it to today’s final at the 117th Penn Relays at Franklin Field here, the event will be the pinnacle of their season after the school was barred from Champs 2011 for failing to register on time. The light blue brigade aims to make it count. Read more >>

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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FRANKLIN FIELD, Pennsylvania:EDWIN ALLEN High and Vere Technical warmed the hearts of thousands of Jamaicans on a chilly afternoon at the 117th Penn Relays with a win each yesterday.

A powerful 2.03.17 leg by 400m hurdles winner, Ristananna Tracey, carried Edwin Allen to victory in the 4×800 metres while Vere triumphed in the 4×400 metres.

Edwin Allen clocked 8:39.22 in the 4x800m, finishing more than 20 seconds ahead of California’s Long Beach Poly, 8:59.72, while Holmwood Technical had to settle for third in 9:05.32. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA — Edwin Allen High won the 4x800m in the second fastest time ever and Vere Technical won their first Mile Relay title in 17 years as the Jamaican high school girls won two Championships of Americas relay titles on yesterday’s second day of the 117th Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

The Jamaicans failed to match last year’s treble but the quality of yesterday’s wins made up for the loss of the 4x100m that went to Long Beach Poly. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA — Jamaican high school boys relays teams are well set to at least repeat their two wins from last year on the final day of the 117th Penn Relays at Franklin Field here in Philadelphia.

Eight schools led by Kingston College qualified for both the Championships of Americas 4x100m final and the 4x800m final with the heats of the 4x400m set for this morning. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA — The Jamaican senior athletes will defend two titles today in the USA vs The World series at the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Led by Usain Bolt last year, the Jamaica ‘gold team’ established an event record 37.90 seconds in the men’s 4x100m then won their third straight women’s Sprint Medley Relay.

The Jamaicans are entered in five events today — both 4x100m races, the SMR, and both 4x400m races.

Up to yesterday when details were announced at a prees conference, the make-up of the Jamaican teams had not been disclosed, but a squad was released by the organisers earlier in the week.

Bolt, who was a major draw last year when over 54,000 paying fans turned out, will be absent this year but the Jamaican men sprint squad should include four who have run on the World Championships and Olympic relay teams in Michael Frater, Nester Carter, Asafa Powell and Steve Mullings as well as Commonwealth Games 100m champion Lerone Clarke. Read more >>

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Television Jamaica unveiled its exclusive track and field properties for the next three years earlier this week.

The track and field events that will only be seen on TVJ for the next three years include the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 2011 and 2013; the IAAF Diamond League series 2011, 2012 and 2013; the IAAF World Youth Championships 2013; the IAAF World Junior Championships 2012; the JN Jamaica Invitational Meet 2011 and 2012; the National Junior and Senior Championships 2011 and 2012; the World Indoor Championship 2012 and the Gibson Relays 2012 and 2013. Some of these exclusive rights extend regionally. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA – Edwin Allen High School lit up a dark and dreary and at times rainy Franklin Field yesterday with some brilliant running to qualify for three Championships of Americas relays finals on today’s second day of the 117th Penn Relays here in Philadelphia.

The Michael Dyke coached girls also won three individual events on a day that say a 90 minutes delay due to thunderstorms and lightning. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA — Ristananna Tracey of Edwin Allen High finally won an international intermediate hurdles title after racing to a record 56.17 seconds on the opening day of the 117th Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium here yesterday.

After several mishaps and a second place last year, Tracey finally landed a big event as she raced away from Alexis Franklin of Old Mill High of Maryland, 59.07, and Vere Technical’s Rushell Clayton, 59.59. Read more >>

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PHILADELPHIA, USA — There is an air of optimism as the Jamaican boys’ high school teams begin the quest for honours at the 117th Penn Relays here at Franklin Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

Nearly 20 Jamaican high schools will be seeking to surpass the two titles won last year, the 4x100m and 4x400m, both copped by Wolmer’s Boys. Read more >>

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TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Natoya Goule says she is hoping to run both the 800 metres and a leg of the 4x400m relay for Jamaica at this summer’s IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea.

“My hard work and training is paying off,” added Goule, a Manchester High past student and current freshman at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. Read more >>

Source: Jamaica Observer

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