In a ceremony celebrating Jamaica’s athletic excellence, world champion sprinters Oblique Seville and Tina Clayton were honored as the 2025 National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year at the 65th RJRGleaner Sports Foundation National Awards on Saturday evening.
Oblique Seville, 24, captured his first Sportsman of the Year title following his extraordinary performance at the 2025 World Championships where he claimed the 100m gold medal with a blistering personal best of 9.77 seconds. This victory marked Jamaica’s return to the pinnacle of men’s global sprinting for the first time since Usain Bolt’s sprint double triumph at the 2016 Olympic Games. Seville prevailed over Anthony Johnson, who achieved a historic milestone by winning Jamaica’s first-ever gold medal at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Handgun World Championship in the Production Optics – Grand Senior category with a perfect shooting score.
Tina Clayton, 21, secured her inaugural Sportswoman of the Year award after earning silver in the World Championship 100m final with an impressive personal best of 10.76 seconds. The accomplished junior champion, who previously won two World Under-20 100m titles, has successfully transitioned to elite senior competition, demonstrating her readiness to continue Jamaica’s legacy in women’s sprinting following legends Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah, and Shericka Jackson. Notably, Clayton’s strongest competition may come from her twin sister Tia, with the pair being dubbed “Twin Turbo” by Fraser-Pryce.
Additional honors were presented to Sara Misir, who claimed bronze in Powerboating at the 2025 E1 Series Championship for Team Blue Rising and was named runner-up for Sportswoman of the Year. Misir also received the inaugural Breakthrough Athlete of the Year award, a newly established category.
The ceremony also paid tribute to late athlete Alvin Campbell with the Chairman’s Award, while cricketer Christopher Gayle received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his record-breaking career. Horseracing Derby champion I Dream Again was voted The People’s Choice Performance of the Year.