On the occasion when Jamaica celebrates Emancipation Day, Yona Knight-Wisdom delivered a historic feat to earn a silver medal in the one-metre springboard diving competition at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
Jamaica’s junior athletes secured four medals, including a gold won by Lotavia Brown, on day two of the 20th Pan American Under-20 Athletics Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica on Saturday.
Jamaica, playing in their first-ever Women’s World Cup, lost 5-0 against 15th-ranked Italy in a Group C football match at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France on Friday.
Jamaica won two of the six relays at the annual USA versus the World competition on Saturday at the 125 Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.