Commonwealth Games Review

John Steffensen has won another Gold Medal for Australia in the Men’s 400m track and field event. Grenada’s Alleyne Francique won the silver medal and Jamaica’s Jermaine Gonzales won the bronze.

EAD athlete Tanto Campbell has won the Gold Medal for Jamaica in the Men’s Seated Discus. Jacques Martin from Canada won the Silver medal and Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan from India has won the bronze medal.

Trecia Smith from Jamaica has won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Triple Jump with Otonye Iworima fron Nigeria taking the silver medal and Nadia Williams taking the bronze medal.

Dean Macey from England has won the Men’s Decathlon taking the Gold Medal ahead of Maurice Smith from Jamaica who takes the silver medal and Jason Dudley who takes the Bronze medal for Australia.

Jamaica’s Maurice Wignall has added another sprinting gold medal to the Caribbean nation’s tally. Scotland’s Chris Baillie has won the silver and England’s Andrew Turner has won the bronze.

Sheri-Ann Brooks has won the Women’s 100m for Jamaica with Geraldine Pillay taking the Silver for South Africa and Delphine Atangana took the bronze for Cameroon.
In the Men’s 100m, Asafa Powell took the Gold for Jamaica just over the 10 second mark. Nigeria’s Soji Fasuba took the silver and Marc Burns has taken the bronze […]

Janus Robberts has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Men’s Shot Put. Dorian Scott from Jamaica has won the silver medal while Scott Martin has won the bronze medal for Australia.

Sunette Viljoen has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Women’s Javelin while Laverne Eve from Bahamas taking the silver and Olivia McKoy from Jamaica taking the bronze medal.

Jamaica’s 100m world record holder Asafa Powell says he’s in good shape and is looking forward to competing at the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
The world’s fastest man, who at one stage, was reported to be in doubt for the Games because of a slow recovery from injury he sustained last season in London, revealed that he […]

In a bizarre twist of events, the Jamaica Netball Association (JNA) yesterday announced that Oberon Pitterson will go to the Commonwealth Games as a player and not as head coach.
Pitterson, who was announced as the senior coach just over a month ago, will be replaced by Maureen Hall, the teams’ long-time coach.
THE SQUAD
Shooters: Elaine Davis […]

Jamaica’s track and field team to next month’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, will be selected rather than be chosen based on results of the National Championships.
According to the official website of the JAAA, www.thejaaaltd.com, four criteria will be used for both the Commonwealth Games and the IAAF World Indoor Champions that will be held […]

Jamaica will be represented by 3 table tennis players at the Commonwealth Games in the form of Nigel Webb, Gavin Hylton and Darryl Strachan who were the top three placed players at the national team trial held by the Jamaican Table Tennis Association at the University of Technology last week.
Webb, Hylton, Strachan book Commonwealth Games […]

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, the 100m world record holder, may not compete at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Melbourne due to injury. 2003 World 100m champion Kim Collins from St Kitts and Nevis is already out of the event.
Powell doubtful, Collins out of Commonwealth Games

Caribbean welterweight champion Courtney Simister made a successful return to the ring on the weekend and has his sites set firmly on Melbourne.
“The Commonwealth box-off is a must,” Simister told journalists after he beat Anthony Williams of Job Walters Gym at ‘Saturday Night at the Fights’, put on by the Jamaica Boxing Board at Oakton […]