 Jamaica Track And Field Olympian, Lennox Miller passed away on Monday (Nov. 8) of cancer in Pasadena at the age of 58. The 1968 Olympic 100-meter silver medalist and 1972 bronze medalist. Lennox Miller a  member of
the 1964 Kingston College High team and the first Jamaican High
School to run at the
Penn Relays, won the Championship of America 4x110y, on their maiden
entry. Lennox was
also member of the USC team, that establish the
world record for 440-yard.
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Olympian Merlene Ottey. This statue will
be the second for a Jamaican Olympian, and the first for a female
athlete. The first statue is located at
the National Stadium in Kingston. Merlene Ottey has the world indoor record 21.87 for 200 meters since 1993, and as won the most Jamaican yearly Sports Woman award, she is one of Jamaica's leading sprinters from 100 to 400 meters. for more>>>>
athlete to run a sub 45sec (44.60)on a 4x400
relay. Herb has many other first as a Jamaican, setting the a new world
record for 400 meters, making the Penn Relays Wall of Fame, and he was
the key on third leg in defeating the USA in the 1952 Olympics and in
the process giving the Jamaican team(A. Wint, L. Laing & G. Rhoden) an
Olympic and World Record,
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whiskers of running a sub 20sec (20.06) for 200 meters. Asafa owns 75
percent of of sub 10sec by a Jamaican sprinter, Raymond Stewart has two(2)
and Percival Spencer one(1). These performances should place Asafa
up there for the Jamaican Sports Man award, (For More)
Olympians medalist from Athens will be down for this meet Galore, Veronica Campbell, Aleen Bailey, Sherone Simpson, Tayna Lawrence, Michelle Burgher, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke, Mark-Lewis Francis, Felix Sanchez, Usain Bolt, Muna Lee, Lauryn Williams, Monique Hennagan, Sanya Richards....
Relay teams from various countries will be there to attain qualifying times, in addition there will be High Schools relay teams just back from Penn Relays triumphantly to do battle again.
Danny McFarlane the 2004 Olympic 400H Silver medalist, became only the second man to make an Olympic final for both the 400M(Sydney 2000) and 400h(Athens) in 68 years.
Asafa Powell Stats:
Most Sub-10s In A Season:9-Tie for first with M. Greene.
Most Sub-9.95s In A Season:5-Tie for second with 5 others.
Most Sub-9.95s Lifetime:5-Tie for sixth with L. Burrell.
Marion Jones the 2000 Olympic gold medalist
may be strip of the Gold medal, and the second placer Ekaterina Thanou is under a
dark cloud for faking injury prior to the 2004 Olympics, to evade testing for
drugs. An interesting point here, is that domino will place Merlene
Ottey in the Silver medal position.Is Marion's Gold medal tarnished? When Tayna receives the Gold medal, will the medal becomes it pure? For More
| Veronica Campbell
- Will be at the NY/Reebok Meet |
Veronica Campbell The 2005
Olympic 200 meters, 4x100 meters Gold and 100m Bronze medalist
will be at the NY Reebok meet.. This will be Veronica's first
Big Apple appearance. VC will certainly bring out the Jamaican and
Caribbean Massives to the new Ichan Stadium on Randalls Island. Lets
rally around the Black, Green and Gold. VC is currently rank
number one for the 200m |