Shericka Williams News

Bolt, Fraser World Championships triple gold medallist and world 100 metres and 200 metres record-holder Usain Bolt, and world 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser head the list of five men and nine women who have been nominated for the annual RJR National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards on Thursday were named winners of the 2009 Jesse Owens Awards by USA Track & Field.

Former world 100-metre record holder and World Championship bronze medallist Asafa Powell has vowed to give back to the sport of track and field.

Following sharply on the heels of Glen Mills' decision to discontinue his association with Jamaican teams at major championships as head coach, fellow top-brass coach, Stephen Francis, has distanced himself from the post, choosing instead to concentrate on his MVP Track Club athletes.

Kenny Benjamin , chairman of the Guardsman Group of Companies, presents Olympic and World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser with her lifetime membership certificate to Gymkhana.

The 2009 athletics season is over. The celebrations have been held, the plaudits received.

Beverly Hirst and Randall Ebanks look at Red Bull Avalanche by Mark Smith during The Art of Can at Devon House held on Wednesday.

Singer Janet Jackson, America's First Lady Michelle Obama and Pulse supermodel Jeneil Williams join local celebrities on our fab page today.

Anthony Foster, Gleaner Writer Former world 100m record holder, Asafa Powell, says by following in the footsteps of MVP Track and Field Club teammate Brigitte Foster-Hylton, he learnt this season to believe more in himself.

Having recorded 12-sub 10 times this season to establish the all-time record at 60, two-time World Championship 100-metre bronze medallist Asafa Powell has confessed that his injured left ankle bothered him up to his last race of the season.

NASSAU, Bahamas,A CMC a ' Bahamian Olympic champion Tonique Williams-Darling has been inducted into the University of South Carolina 2009 Athletic Hall of Fame, the Nassau Tribune newspaper has reported.

Olympic silver medalist Shericka Williams of Jamaica won the women's 400 meters at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix here on Sunday.

WE'RE IN A STRANGE MOOD THESE DAYS. a kind of hushed expectancy, waiting to see what will happen next.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt reacts after his win in the 200 metres at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Greece on Sunday.

Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Howard Aris, president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association , displays a document while making his presentation at a press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel yesterday.

Asafa Powell ran the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds into a strong headwind on Sunday at the Rieti Grand Prix in Italy, on the same track where the Jamaican star set a then-world record of 9.74 two years ago.

THE Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association yesterday hosted a press conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel intended to clarify, inform and redefine its own image after the anarchy which rocked the country's record-breaking team at the just-concluded 12th IAAF World Championships of Athletics in Berlin, Germany.

Richards goes for 6th golden win in Brussels 2009 world champion Sanya Richards will be vying for her sixth and final win to secure her share of the $1 million Golden League jackpot Friday at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium.

After attending all twelve of the IAAF World Championships, from Helsinki 1983 to Berlin 2009, I must say that the event in Berlin's Olympic Stadium was certainly one of the best.

World champion Sanya Richards of the United States stayed in the hunt for a $1 million jackpot by cruising to victory in the 400 meters at the Weltklasse Golden League meet.