Tag: team jamaica bickle

HIBBERT WINS LONG JUMP AT PENN!

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania Despite competing with an injured ankle, Kingston College’s (KC) Jaydon Hibbert still managed to outclass his rivals to win the Championship of America triple jump event at the 2022 Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium today. Hibbert, who has been having an outstanding season, had a best of 15.94 metres to win […]

World Indoor Championships | Williams clocks personal best 7.06

Source: Jamaica Gleaner…..   OLYMPIANS Briana Williams and Shericka Jackson advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s 60 metres after preliminary round action at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on Friday. Williams clocked a personal best 7.06 seconds to win the sixth and final heat in the second fastest time. Competing in […]

Edwin Allen, St Jago display usual Central Champs dominance

Source: Jamaica Gleaner…… ANOTHER YEAR and things remained the same as Edwin Allen High School’s girls and St Jago High School’s boys tightened their stranglehold on the titles at the Central Athletics Championships at the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports yesterday. With five of the top female teams that will be in […]

Veronica Campbell-Brown, who led Jamaica’s golden sprint revival, retires

Source: Olympic Talk/NBC News  Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won back-to-back Olympic 200m titles to lead Jamaica’s ascent to the top of global sprinting, announced her retirement on the eve of her nation’s Olympic Trials. “As I take off my spikes never to put them on again, this girl from Clarks Town walks away happy and contented […]

5K WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

  Photo: Jetola Anderson-Blair of Houston Texas ; winner of  The Marcia Sinclair Memorial Award.  New York/October 29, 2020/CMMInc… The Awards Ceremony to announce the winners of the recently held Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB) Inaugural Virtual 5K Run/Walk, was held on Sunday October 25, 2020. The organization which had since 2011 held its annual 5K […]

Team Jamaica Bickle intensifies focus on athletes’ welfare with 5K run/walk

DESPITE the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting fallout in sponsorships and fund-raising activities, chief executive officer (CEO) of Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB), Irwine Clare says the focus was firmly on the welfare of Jamaican students in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic, he said, had caused a serious shift in concentration […]

Pandemic Costs Team Jamaica Bickle $22m

From left: Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB) President Irwine Clare, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Second Vice-President Vilma Charlton, Jamaica Olympic Association First Vice-President Nelson Stokes, and Olympians Association of Jamaica’s (OAJ) Marvin Anderson at the signing of a memorandum of understanding signing between the TJB and OAJ at the National Stadium on Friday. Photo: Nicholas Nunes  […]

TJB Signs MOU with Olympians Association of Jamaica

Irwine Clare (left), founder and CEO of Team Jamaica Bickle, and Marvin Anderson, president of the Olympians Association of Jamaica, show off the documents after signing a memorandum of understanding at the National Stadium on Friday. Photo: Nicholas Nunes  Team Jamaican Bickle (TJB) founder and CEO Irwine Clare says that the organisation is entering a […]

Hubert Lawrence |Gibson McCook Relay Magic

Jamaica Gleaner Last year, Kimar Farquharson was the shining high school star of the 41st Gibson McCook Relays. His stunning 4×800-metre anchor leg time-warped Calabar High School into the record books at 7 minutes 31.71 seconds. In a show of relay magic on Saturday, at the 42nd staging of the venerable relay carnival inside the […]