Bolt, Stewart, Campbell-Brown and Powell head Jamaica's Olympic team
Wednesday July 2, 2008

KINGSTON -- World 100m record holder Usain Bolt, former record holder Asafa Powell, Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and Jamaican women's sprint double champion Kerron Stewart head Jamaica's team for this summer's Beijing Olympic Games.

 

Squad:

FEMALE: Kerron Stewart, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson, Veronica
Campbell-Brown, Sherri-Ann Brooks, Aleen Bailey, Simone Facey, Nickiesha Anderson, Rosemarie White, Novlene Williams-Mills, Shericka Williams, Shareefa Lloyd, Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, Anastasia Le-Roy, Kenia Sinclair, Madrea Hyman, Korine Hinds, Chelsea Hammond, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Delloren Ennis-London, Vonette Dixon, Andrea Bliss, Melaine walker, Nickiesha Wilson, Shevon Stoddart, and Olivia McKoy.

MALE: Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Michael Frater, Marvin Anderson, Dwight
Thomas, Julien Dunkley, Andre Wellington, Christopher Williams, Nesta
Carter, Michael Blackwood, Ricardo Chambers, Sanjay Ayre, Allodin
Fothergill, Marvin Essor, Lansford Spence, Maurice Wignall, Richard Phillips, Danny McFarlane, Markino Buckley, Adrian Findlay, Isa Phiilips, Herbert McGregor, Dorian Scott, Aldwyne Sappleton, Maurice Smith.

Management team
Manager – Ludlow Watts
Assistant managers – Garth Gayle, Gregory Hamilton and Judith Ewart.
Technical leader Donald Quarie
Head coach Glen Mills
Coaches – Berland Cameron, Michael Clarke, Edward Hector and Fitz Coleman.
Medical – doctors Warren Blake, Herbert Elliott and Michael Douglas;
Physiotherapists/masseuse Gaynor Dowener and Everald Edwards.

Sixteen athletes name for CAC

Sixteen athletes have been selected to represent Jamaica at this weekend's CAC Championships (July 4-6) in Cali Colombia.

MALE: Lerone Clark, Davaon Spence (100m), Xavier Brown (200m), Dacosmo Wright (110mH), Isa Phillips (400mH), Claston Bernard (decathlon), Herbert McGregor, Junlian Reid (long jump), Hickel Woolery (discus).

FEMALE: Aleen Bailey (100m/200m), Moya Thompson, Sonita Sutherland (400m), Caltha Seymour, Zara Northover (shot put), Kateema Riettie (javelin) Carol Long (manager); Roy Thomas (assistant manager/coach); Orville Byfield (coach) and Jermaine Shand (coach).