Silver, bronze for Jamaiac in sprint relays at World Junior Championships

Jamaica gained a silver and a bronze medal on the penultimate day of the IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon on Saturday, with both sprint relay teams achieving a measure of success.

First, the female team of Sashalee Forbes, Kedisha Dallas, Saqukine Cameron and Natalliah Whyte grabbed silver in their 4x100m relay in a time of 43.97 seconds. This was the first medal for the females at the Championships.

USA, the host nation, has been enjoying a great deal of success in these Championships, and this continued with the gold medal in this race, in a time of 43.46. Germany placed third.

In the men’s 4×100, Jamaica placed third (39.12) with the USA again taking the gold in a time of 38.70 seconds.

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Bronze queens

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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Jamaica’s Under-21 netballers shortly after arriving at the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday. The young Sunshine Girls won the bronze medal at the World Junior Netball Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, after defeating England 52-33 in the third-place play-off match on Saturday. Australia retained their crown after defeating New Zealand in the final.

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Sunshine to the world - Junior netballers take Championship bronze

JAMAICA’S Sunshine Girls shone brightly after retaining their bronze medal at the World Youth Netball Championship in Scotland with an easy 52-33 win over England yesterday.

Just as they did four years ago in the Cook Islands, Jamaica turned back England for third place, but this time, New Zealand flipped the script on Australia, taking the gold with a 52-47 victory.The Young Sunshine Girls, who lost to New Zealand in the semi-final, proved too much for England, leading from start to finish and ran out winners by 19 points.Playing without the injured goal shooter Shantel Slater, who was on crutches after suffering an injury in the semi-final, Jamaica led 14-11, 25-18, and 40-23 after the three quarters for a comfortable victory and a place on the podium.“Mission accomplished. We on the podium,” said Jamaica Netball Association (JNA) president Marva Bernard via Facebook.“Congratulations to the ladies, their coaching staff, management and support team. Well done. I am so proud of them. We promised to leave no less than we came and we did,” Bernard added.This was the fourth time Jamaica and England have faced each other in recent times and the Vangalee Williams-led outfit was very confident, having won the previous three encounters.“That was our aim from the start; to be on the podium, and thank God we accomplished that tonight,” said Williams in an audio interview provided by the organisers.“It was challenging, for one. We started out a little bit rocky, but we picked up ourselves off the ground and hit it from the get-go. England just couldn’t catch us back,” she noted.“We are overwhelmed. We are elated, every good thing that there is,” said Williams, when asked to describe her team’s emotions.“Awesome,” was her reply when quizzed about one word to describe her feeling.Meanwhile, South Africa took fifth spot beating Wales in a close encounter; Barbados finished as the second best Caribbean team in seventh spot after seeing off Trinidad and Tobago; Fiji finished ninth, and Samoa rounded out the top 10 teams.Top 101 New Zealand2 Australia3 Jamaica4 England5 South Africa6 Wales7 Barbados8 Trinidad & Tobago9 Fiji10 SamoaJamaica’s National Under-21 netball team pose with their bronze medals after defeating England in the third-place play-off in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. (PHOTO: COLLIN REID, COURTESY OF SUPREME VENTURES, COURTS AND SCOTIABANK)Jamaica’s Kadijah Williams (right) goes high to collect the ball as England goal keeper Layla Guscoth (left) and Jamaica’s Thristina Harwood jockey for position during yesterday’s thirdplace play-off. (PHOTO: COLLIN REID, COURTESY OF SUPREME VENTURES, COURTS AND SCOTIABANK)

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Bronze for young Sunshine Girls at World Youth Netball Champs

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Saturday, August 31, 2013 | 10:36 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The young Sunshine Girls won the bronze medal at the World Youth Netball Championships today, beating England 52-33.The Jamaicans played superb as they got out to an early lead taking the first quarter 14-11.In the second quarter Jamaica began to stamp their authority over the English to take a commanding 25-18 lead at half-time.In the third quarter Jamaica further pulled away from England outscoring them 15-5 to go into the final quarter leading, 40-23.In the final quarter England tried to fight back but the young Sunshine Girls were merciless yet again outscoring them, taking the match 52-33.New Zealand and Australia play in the gold medal match later.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The young Sunshine Girls won the bronze medal at the World Youth Netball Championships today, beating England 52-33.The Jamaicans played superb as they got out to an early lead taking the first quarter 14-11.In the second quarter Jamaica began to stamp their authority over the English to take a commanding 25-18 lead at half-time.In the third quarter Jamaica further pulled away from England outscoring them 15-5 to go into the final quarter leading, 40-23.In the final quarter England tried to fight back but the young Sunshine Girls were merciless yet again outscoring them, taking the match 52-33.New Zealand and Australia play in the gold medal match later.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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The Bahamas receive Olympic bronze 13 years after games

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Thursday, August 01, 2013

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — The Bahamas Olympic Men’s 4 x 400-metre relay team has been presented with bronze medals from the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000.The team of Chris Brown, Carl Oliver, Troy McIntosh, Avard Moncur and Tim Munnings received the bronze medals after the USA team, the original bronze medal winner, was disqualified.“It is for me to say to each of you, as you accept this award, that you really made it possible for younger ones to believe that they could do better and that they could compete at the level of the Olympics and the level of the world,” Prime Minister Perry Christie said to the team receiving their bronze medals during a ceremony at the British Colonial Hilton.“It was a defining kind of performance — a defining moment in sports — and I thank you for it.”The decision to award the medals follows lengthy deliberations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which ruled back in 2008 to strip the United States’ team of its gold medal after it was revealed that one of its members had used a banned substance prior to the games.However, it wasn’t until last August that the IOC reallocated the medals.The decision moved the Nigerian team to earning a gold medal with Jamaica and The Bahamas being awarded silver and bronze medals, respectively.“I want each of you to reflect on your contribution to athletics in The Bahamas and to see, as professionals, what you are doing now, and to hope that, in some way, you are able to give something back,” said Christie.Christie urged team members to travel through the Bahamas to encourage young children to pursue their dreams in athletics.He announced that his Government would embark on the construction of sporting complexes throughout the islands.“I am hoping that tomorrow my Government signs off on the first one in Abaco,” said Christie.

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Tanto misses bronze, as Hudson, Brascoe stumble

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Monday, July 22, 2013

IT was a disappointing first day of competition for Jamaica in track and field at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, yesterday.Tanto ‘The Emperor’ Campbell went into the thrower’s ring at 5:25 pm (French time) for the first round with quiet confidence knowing that he had a job to do in the discus F54-56 class.He hurled a personal best of 41.71m and went into the final round in third position, but was unable to better his personal best and maintain his bronze medal position. Campbell, though performing at his best at the last Paralympics in London, and now in Lyon, has missed out on coveted medals, which would have been in his cabinet had it not been for the mergers of classes of persons with lesser disability over the last three years, to which different competition rules apply.Shane Hudson and David Bascoe took to the 200m T45/46/47 semi-finals under a late Lyon sun, which was in full flight at 6:00 pm (French time) with no suggestion of its setting.Brascoe was the first in lane three in semi-final one. His run was competent and he bettered his personal best by doing 23.25 seconds, but could only manage fifth, which did not allow him to transition.Hudson, running out of lane two, did not execute the bend as efficiently as he normally does and lost ground in the straight to finish fifth in 23.19 seconds, thereby loosing a berth in the final.Both athletes will now turn their sights to the T45/46/47 400m later in the week where their performances should be stronger.Meanwhile, Alphanso ‘The Ambassador’ Cunningham will start his campaign today in the F51/52/53 men’s discus at 9:45 am in Lyon (2:45 am Jamaica time).He carries on his capable shoulder the hopes of a nation which he continues to inspire with his golden performances. Training has been going well according to head coach Neville Sinclair: “Alphanso is prepared. He is conditioned and Jamaica will be pleased.”The discus event will be the first of two events for Cunningham, who will be competing in his signal event the F51/52/53 men’s javelin later this week. In London last year, he reigned supremely and won the gold in this event.“I will do my best for my country,” Cunningham quietly said, playing down, in characteristic style, the enormity of his credentials in sport.Jamaica’s Tanto Campbell about to release the discus during the final of the F54-56 class at the IPC Athletics World Championships at the Stade du Rhune in Venissieux, Lyon, France, yesterday. Campbell eventually finished in fourth place. (PHOTOS: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)Davis Bascoe (right) of Jamaica approaches the finish line in the men’s 200m T45/46/47 semi-finals next to an opponent at the IPC Athletics World Championships at the Stade du Rhune in Venissieux, Lyon, France, yesterday.

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Ja top medals table with WYC 6 gold, 2 bronze

JAMAICA ended their best-ever showing at an IAAF World Youth Championships with fireworks as they ran a World Youth best 1 minute 49.23 seconds to win the boys’ medley relays, the final event in Donetsk, Ukraine, yesterday.

With Michael O’Hara winning the 200m event, Jamaica added two more gold medals for a total of six, along with two bronze medals, to top the medals table at a global track and field championships for the first time.It was the first win by a Jamaica team in the boys’ medley relays, while O’Hara, who ran a personal best and World Youth leading 20.63 seconds, was winning the third gold in the 200m by a Jamaican after Usain Bolt, who still holds the World Youth best 20.40 seconds set in Sherbrook, Canada, in 2003, and Ramone McKenzie in 2007 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.Jamaica had won nine medals on two previous occasions, including two years ago in Lille, France, but this was the first time they were winning six gold medals and topping the table.Kenya finished second with 11 medals; four gold, three silver and four bronze. Ethiopia were next with three gold, three silver and two bronze; Australia also won three gold and a bronze, while the USA finished fifth overall with two gold, seven silver and eight bronze for a total of 17 medals, the most by any country.Despite several setbacks before they even left the island, including delays that saw some athletes arriving in the European country two days before the start of the competition last Wednesday, the Jamaicans rose to the occasion with a series of spectacular performances.Yanique Thompson became the first female to go under 13 seconds in the 100m hurdles when she smashed the previous World Youth best by running 12.94 seconds to land the gold.Jaheel Hyde, who had temporarily abandoned the sprint hurdles for the 400m earlier this year, lowered his personal best three times and ran a spectacular 13.13 seconds, just off the WYB 13.12 seconds to win the 110m hurdles.Martin Manley and Marvin Williams also ran World Youth Leading times to win the men’s 400m and 400m hurdles, respectively.Jamaica also landed bronze medals in the women’s 400m through Tiffany James and the men’s high jump with Christoffe Bryan.In every event, except the boys’ 200m yesterday, Jamaican athletes were setting new standards with medals in those events.Yesterday, O’Hara, who was bitterly disappointed with a fourth place finish in the boys’ 100m final last Thursday after going into the championships with double gold medal ambitions, beat Brazilian Vitor Hugo Dos Santos to the line in a new personal best 20.63 seconds.O’Hara’s time made him the third fastest Jamaican youth over the distance behind Bolt’s 20.40 seconds, and 20.58 seconds set by McKenzie at the 2007 CARIFTA Games.It was also the sixth medal in the event by a Jamaican, as Omar Brown won silver in 1999 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Nickel Ashmeade took bronze behind McKenzie in 2007, and Odail Todd won silver in Lille, France, two years ago.The Brazillian ran a personal best 20.67 seconds for the silver, while Cuba’s Reynier Mena took bronze in 20.79 seconds to go with his 100m bronze last Thursday.The team of Waseem Williams (100m), O’Hara (200m), Okeen Williams (300m) and Martin Manley (400m) then outclassed the strong field to win Jamaica’s first gold and second medal in the boys’ medley relays.The USA were second with 1 minute 50.14 seconds and Japan third in a new National Youth best 1 minute 50.52 seconds.Williams, who was a last0minute replacement for 400m hurdler Devaughn Baker, was winning his first gold medal after tripping over the eighth hurdle in the 400m hurdles final the previous day.Jamaica’s Michael O’Hara (second left) dips at the finish line to win the boys’ 200 metres ahead of Brazil’s Vitor Hugo Dos Santos (left) and Cuba’s Reynier Mena (second right) during the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine, yesterday. O’Hara won in a new personal best and world youth leading 20.63 seconds. (PHOTO: JIRO MOCHIZUKI)Jamaica’s medley relay runners (from left) Michael O’Hara, Okeen Williams, Martin Manley and Waseem Williams pose with the display board showing the new World Youth Best 1.49:23 minutes after their victory at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine, yesterday. (PHOTO: JIRO MOCHIZUKI)

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Le-Roy, Maitland cop bronze medals at WUG

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Everard OwenWednesday, July 10, 2013

Anastasia Le-Roy and Nicholas Maitland provided Jamaica with two bronze medals in the 400 metres at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia yesterday.Le-Roy clocked 51.72 seconds for third place behind the Russian pair of Kesenia Ustalovia, who won in a season’s best 50.60 seconds, and Alena Tamkeva, who registered a personal best 51.17 seconds.Maitland ran a personal best of 45.63 seconds behind winner Vladimir Krasnov, of Russia, who timed a season’s best 45.49 seconds, and Brazilian Anderson Henriques (45.50 seconds).Meanwhile, triple jumper Shaneika Thomas leapt 15.58 metres to move to tomorrow’s final.Also, defending champion Rasheed Dwyer won his two rounds yesterday in the men’s 200 metres, in 21.00 and 21.07 seconds, respectively. The semi-final and final will be today.Danille Williams will face the starter today in heat three of the 100m hurdles, and Travis Smikle will be in round one of the men’s discus.Maurice Wilson, Le-Roy’s coach at G C Foster, expressed delight when he spoke to the Jamaica Observer. “She has performed well coming off a major championship where persons had to perform at the highest level and then to get back ready within a week to perform at another major championship, I just have to give credit to those there for performing for their various colleges and universities,” he said.“I expect her to do better as it is obvious that she has recovered well from her earlier setback and I expect her to do extremely well as she gets some more rest.”Russia lead the athletics medals table with 24, followed by Ukraine with six, South Africa with four, and Jamaica in 14th with two.LE-ROY… clocked 51.72 seconds for third place

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