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2. Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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   the team of Jamaica at the Opening Ceremony. Jamaica sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.This was, by far, Jamaica's best showing at the Summer Olympics; it was the nation's largest delegation yet, and its athletes nearly doubled its total gold medal count in addition to breaking the nation's record for number of ...

3. Jamaica at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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   Jamaican athletes have won a total of 87 medals, with all but one medal won in athletics, and all but three of those in the individual and relay sprint events. The National Olympic Committee for Jamaica is the Jamaica Olympic Association , and was founded in 1936.

4. Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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   Jamaican Usain Bolt set a new world record of 19.30 seconds in the final, and won by the largest margin of victory (0.66 seconds, after two disqualifications) in an Olympic 200 metres final (previously, Walter Tewksbury had a 0.6 seconds margin of victory in the first Olympic 200 m final in 1900). It was Jamaica's first victory in the event ...

5. Dwight Thomas - Wikipedia

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   Thomas represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together with Michael Frater, Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell. In their qualification heat they placed first in front of Canada, Germany and China. Their time of 38.31 was the second out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and ...

6. Will Team USA cruise to gold in track? Not if the Jamaicans ...

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   But the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics put Jamaica on the map. Although Team USA won gold in the men’s and women’s 4x100 relays in Beijing, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt stole the ...

7. Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

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   The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 16 August at the Beijing National Stadium. [1] 80 athletes from 64 nations competed. [2] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The final was won by Jamaican Usain Bolt in a world record time of 9.69 seconds. It ...

8. Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, a favorite in Olympic 100 meters ...

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   The Olympic track meet starts Friday, highlighted by the opening round for the women’s 100, where Jackson had been listed as the second favorite behind world champion Sha’Carri Richardson.

9. Athletics in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   In 1930, Jamaica entered its first-ever athletics team into an international competition. It was the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games.Joseph Mackenzie, former student at St. George's College, won a silver medal in the high jump with a jump of 1.75 m becoming Jamaica's first ever international medal winner.