Usain Bolt (left) and Jermaine Gonzales at the announcement of Jamaica's team to the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia at the Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew last night. - ANDREW SMITH/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
ATHENS OLYMPICS 200 metres gold medallist Veronica Campbell, world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell and 2005 World Championships triple jump gold medallist Trecia Smith head the 102-member Jamaican contingent named last night for the 18th Common-wealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
Campbell will compete in the 200 metres and 4x100m while Powell is down for the 100m and 4x100m at the March 15-26 Games in the southern Australian city.
Other leading athletes named in the 47-member track and field squad are 2005 World Champion-ships men's 100m silver medallist Michael Frater, 100m hurdles silver and bronze medallists Delloreen Ennis-London and Brigitte Foster-Hylton and Lacena Golding-Clarke, the 2002 gold medallist in the sprint hurdles. Golding-Clarke missed out on the World Champion-ships last year after losing out to Vonnette Dixon. Dixon won the silver medal in Manchester in 2002, but will not make the trip to Melbourne.
The island will compete in nine sports at the Paraplegic Games in Melbourne. Netball, the only team sport Jamaica will compete in, comprises 12 players headed by captain Oberon Pitterson-Dunn. The other sports are badminton, boxing, cycling, shooting, squash, swimming and table tennis.
Jamaica's athletes to the 18th Commonwealth Games:
ATHLETICS (Women)
BALLETINE, Michelle (800m)
BEAUTLE, Karen (High Jump)
BROOKS, Sheri-Ann (200m, 4x100m)
BROWNING, Daniele (4x100m)
CAMPBELL, Veronica (200m, 4x100m)
DOWDIE, Peta-Gaye (100m 4x100m)
ENNIS-LONDON, Deloreen (100m Hurdles)
FENTON, Lorraine (400m, 4x400m)
FOSTER-HYLTON, Brigitte (100m Hurdles)
GOLDING-CLARKE, Lacena (100m Hurdles)
GOULBOURNE, Elva (Long Jump)
HINDS, Korine (3,000m Steeplechase)
HYMAN, Madrea (3,000m Steeplechase)
MARTIN, Arieta (Marathon)
RICHARDS, Sandie (4x400m)
McKOY, Olivia (Javelin)
SIMPSON, Sherone (200m, 4x100m)
SINCLAIR, Kenia (800m)
SMITH, Ronetta (400m, 4x400m)
SMITH, Trecia-Kaye (Triple Jump)
STODDART, Shavon (400m Hurdles)
WILLIAMS, Novlene (400m, 4x400m)
WILLIAMS, Shellene (400m, 4x400m)
WILLIAMS, Shericka (400m. 4x400m)
ATHLETICS (Men)
BECKFORD, James (Long Jump)
BLACKWOOD, Michael (400m, 4x400m)
BOLT, Usain (4x400m, 200m)
BROWN, Omar O. (200m)
CLARKE, Davian (400m, 4x400m)
CLARKE, Lerone (4x100m)
DAVIS, Lansford (4x400m)
FRATER, Michael (100m, 4x100m)
GONZALES, Germaine (400m, 4x400m Relay)
GUTZMORE, Andrew (Marathon)
GRIFFITHS, Dean (400m Hurdles)
PINNOCK, Christopher (110m Hurdles)
POWELL, Asafa (100m, 4x100m)
SCOTT, Dorian (Shot Put)
SMITH, Maurice (Decathlon)
SPENCE, Lansford (4x400m)
SMITH, Winston (100m, 4x100m)
THOMPSON, Kemel (400m Hurdles)
WAUGH, Ainsley (100m, 4x100m)
WALKER, Wilbert (Triple Jump)
WEAKLEY, Ian (400m Hurdles)
WIGNALL, Maurice (110m Hurdles)
WILLIAMS, Christopher (200m)
ATHLETICS (EAD)
GRANT, Sylvia (Athlete)
MORRISON, Coleen (Athlete)
CAMPBELL, Tanto (Athlete)
HARRIS, Suzanne (Manager)
WILLIAMS, Errol (Coach)
WILLIAMS, Rose (Asst. Personal Care)
BADMINTON
LEWIS, Alya
SAUNDERS, Nigella
PALMER, Garron
PYNE, Charles
ASTWOOD, Audley (Manager)
FORD, Kingsley (Coach)
BOXING
GAVIN, Omar
WALTERS, Nicholas
GOODISON, Kingsley (Manager)
GRAHAM, Barrington (Coach)
CYCLING
WYNTER, Iona
LYNCH, Ricardo
McFARLANE, Horace
SAMUELS, Oneil
TURNER, Tinga
PHANG, Vaughn (Manager)
TENN, Arthur (Coach)
NETBALL
DAVIS, Elaine
FORBES, Simone
THOMAS, Latoya
FFRENCH, Jodiann
BRYAN, Nadine
THOMAS, Peter-Gaye
CAMPBELL, Marion
HYLTON, Tamara
GIBSON, Nichala
AIKEN, Nicole
EVERING, Kasey
PITTERSON-DUNN, Oberon
DONALDSON, Sharon (Management)
KEANE-DAWES, Yvonne (Management)
HALL, Maureen (Management)
SHOOTING
NELSON, Denis J.
RICKMAN, David
KOBAYASHI, Dawn
BLAKE, Warren
BROWN, Ronald
LEE, Denis (Manager)
SMITH, Carl (Coach)
SQUASH
ANDERSON, Karen
RABESS, Marlene
BINNIE, Christopher
WEST, Michael (Manager)
SWIMMING
ATKINSON, Alia
SWABY, Tamara
HAMILTON, Brad
EYRE, John (Manager)
WALTER, Jacqueline (Coach)
TABLE TENNIS
HYLTON, Gavin
STRACHAN, Darryl
WEBB, Nigel (Captain)
GARVEY, Keith (Manager)
ENJIE, Xue (Coach)
