Top athletes are confirmed to compete at this week’s Supreme Ventures sponsored Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Senior Championships at the National Stadium.
Asafa Powell of Jamaica competes in the Men’s 100m race at the EAA Premium Meeting Lucerne on July 15, 2014 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell and fellow Jamaican Sherone Simpson have had their doping bans reduced from 18 months to six months. (July 14, 2014 – Source: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Europe)
The event, which serves as a qualifier for a number of senior international meets, such as the IAAF World Championships in Beijing this August, gets under way on Thursday with big names such as Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kaliese Spencer and Novlene Williams-Mills, who all have automatic entries to the World Championships as defending champions in their events or Diamond Race winners from last year, listed to compete.
[/column2][column2_last]
[/column2_last]
Melaine Walker of Jamaica celebrates winning the gold medal in the women’s 400 Metres Hurdles Final during day six of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. (Aug. 19, 2009 – Source: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images Europe)
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won the sprint double in last year’s Diamond Race, is also entered to compete in both events with Fraser-Pryce, who won both sprints at the last World Championships in Moscow in 2013 trumping her wild card.
Click to read more at Jamaica Gleaner
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.