After years of frustration, Oblique Seville finally delivered the World Championships 100m gold to Jamaica and was rewarded with the National Sportsman of the Year Award for 2025 at the 65th staging of the RJRGleaner Sports Foundation National Awards on Saturday night.

Rising star Tina Clayton, who won two World Under-20 100m titles, has stepped up to the senior ranks and delivered silver at the World Championship, bettering Jamaican legends Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, and duly won the Sportswoman of the Year crown.

The 24-year-old Seville, who was winning his first Sportsman of the Year title following his blistering 9.77 clocking for gold, ended American Noah Lyles’ dominance. It was also Jamaica’s first global title since Usain Bolt won the Rio Olympic gold in 2016 and its first World Championship gold since 2015.

Kishane Thompson, who was second to Seville in the 100m, was beaten into second spot by Anthony Johnson, who won Jamaica’s first-ever gold medal at the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Handgun World Championship in South Africa in September. He competed in the Category Production Optics – Grand Senior and shot 100 per cent.

Meanwhile, the 21-year-old Tina Clayton, who ran a personal best 10.76 on her way to silver in the 100m at the World Championship, easily won the Sportswoman of the Year Award.

Sara Misir, who took bronze in Powerboating in the 2025 E1 Series Championship for Team Blue Rising, was the runner-up ahead of the likes of 200m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson. Misir also won the first Breakthrough Athlete of the Year, a new award added to the categories.

The Chairman’s Award was given posthumously to Alvin Campbell for his sterling work in making the National Awards what they are today.

Christopher Gayle was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding cricket career.

Horseracing Derby winner I Dream Again was voted The People’s Choice Performance of the Year.