Jamaica

Best Sports

2023

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 Athletics 300 68.0
2 Football 77 17.5
3 Netball 48 10.9
4 Lacrosse 16 3.6

2022

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 Athletics 246 71.5
2 Football 96 27.9
3 Diving 2 0.6

2021

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 Athletics 230 86.8
2 Football 35 13.2

2019

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 Athletics 654 84.6
2 Football 77 10.0
3 Netball 32 4.1
4 Swimming 10 1.3

Jamaica Positions

2023

Global Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 39
Gender:Men 46
Gender:Women 30
Continent:Americas 6
Per Capita Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 6
Gender:Men 7
Gender:Women 3
Continent:Americas 1

2022

Global Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 37
Gender:Men 73
Gender:Women 27
Continent:Americas 6
Per Capita Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 7
Gender:Men 30
Gender:Women 1
Continent:Americas 1

2021

Global Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 52
Gender:Men 62
Gender:Women 39
Continent:Americas 8
Per Capita Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 14
Gender:Men 25
Gender:Women 7
Continent:Americas 1

2019

Global Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 27
Gender:Men 32
Gender:Women 20
Continent:Americas 4
Per Capita Cup Positions
Category Position
Overall 2
Gender:Men 3
Gender:Women 1
Continent:Americas 1
Sukhee Tserenchimed, Mongolia, world champion in Free Wrestling (60 kg)

Jamaica wins Per Capita title, countries from 4 continents in top 10

The race for the 2015 Per Capita Cup top spots went to the finishing line. Greatest Sporting Nation’s Per Capita Cup&nb...

Jamaica's women 4x100m relay won gold at the Athletics World Championships 2015

Per Capita Cup going to the wire

Greatest Sporting Nation’s Per Capita Cup is the ranking of the world’s sportiest nations: each country’s population figure is divided b...

U. Bolt, Y. Blake and W. Weir of Jamaica dominate 200m

London 2012 Day 13: Jamaica treble in the 200m Men Sprint

Some had doubts that Usain Bolt could clinch a second Olympic double by winning gold in the London 2012 Games 200m sprint, even after his apparently easy defeat of Yohan Blake i...

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce of Jamaica

London 2012: the fastest nation on earth is also the sportiest
Jamaica is the fastest nation on the planet, home to the fastest man and woman: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Usain Bolt have won the 100m Women a...