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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.
Yohan Blake (born 26 December 1989) is a Jamaican sprinter specialising in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprint races. He won gold at the 100m at the 2011 World Athletics Championships as the youngest 100m world champion ever, and a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the 100m and 200m races for the Jamaican team behind Usain Bolt.
This run was overshadowed by Jamaican rival Blake's unexpected run of 19.26 seconds in the 200 m at the same meeting, which brought him within seven hundredths of Bolt's world record. [176] Although Bolt failed to win the Diamond Race in a specific event, he was not beaten on the 2011 IAAF Diamond League circuit, taking three wins in each of ...
TOKYO — The women's Olympic 100-meter gold medal is staying in Jamaica — all of the medals are, in fact. Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson finished 1-2-3 in a ...
Thompson is a native of Banana Ground in Manchester Parish, Jamaica. [6] Running for Christiana High School and later Manchester High School, she was a good but not outstanding scholastic sprinter; her best result at the Jamaican ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships came in 2009, when she placed fourth in the Class Two 100 metres in ...
Jamaican Championships Kingston, Jamaica [24] Javelin throw: 75.01 m Orrin Powell: 20 February 2016 GC Foster Classic Saint Catherine, Jamaica [25] 77.31 m Elvis Graham: 10 June 2023 JAAA All Comers Meet 4 Kingston, Jamaica [26] Decathlon: 8644 pts Maurice Smith: 31 August–1 September 2007 World Championships: Osaka, Japan [27]
World-record holder Lon Meyers (1858–1899) was the first person to run the 440 in under 50 seconds. [1] [2] In 1947, Herb McKenley of Jamaica set a world record in the event with a time of 46.3 seconds, which he lowered the following year to a new world record of 46.0 seconds. [3]
The prolific writer, producer, and director Steven Knight, best known for the long-running BBC-Netflix period crime drama Peaky Blinders, isn’t exactly on a winning streak.His 2023 adaptation of ...