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Born | 11 September 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprinting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Racers Track Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Glen Mills | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400 m: 44.13 200 m: 20.49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonio Watson (born 11 September 2001) is a Jamaican sprinter. He won the gold medal in the boys' 400 metres event at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Athletics held in Nairobi, Kenya. [1] [2]
In 2018, he won the silver medal in the boys' 200 metres event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [3] He won the 200 m bronze medal and the gold in the 4x100 relay in the 2021 NACAC U23 Championships. [4]
Watson won gold in the 400 m at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Michael Mathieu is a retired Bahamian sprinter from Freeport, Grand Bahama who specialized in the 200 metres and 400 metres. He was part of the Bahamian silver medal-winning team in the men's 4×400 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, running second leg and recording a 44.0 split, and the gold medal-winning team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was also a part of second place relay team at the 2007 World Championships. He won the bronze medal in the 4x400 metres relay in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Shellene Williams is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica. She specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres. Her personal best time in the women's 200 metres was 23.50 seconds, achieved in May 2004, and her 400 m best was 51.94 seconds, set in June 2004. Williams won a bronze medal in the women's 4×100 metres relay at the 2003 Pan American Games, alongside Lacena Golding-Clarke, Judyth Kitson, and Danielle Browning.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Janieve Russell is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 400 metres hurdles and the 400 metres sprint. She won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay in Tokyo 2021, where she also finished fourth in the 400m hurdles final in a personal best of 53.08 secs. She is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, winning the 400m hurdles title in 2018 and 2022, and the 4 × 400 m relay in 2014 and 2018. She has also won two relay silvers at the World Championships and a relay gold at the World Indoor Championships.
Chantel Ellen Malone is an athlete representing the British Virgin Islands who competes in the long jump and sprinting events.
Shericka Jackson, OD is a Jamaican sprinter competing in the 100 m, 200 m, and 400 metres. In 2022, she became the fastest woman alive and second fastest woman of all time in the 200 metres.
Christopher Taylor is a Jamaican 400 metre runner. He won the 400 metres event at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Cali, Colombia in 45.27 seconds, a Jamaica Youth Record. Taylor also won the U-18 400 metres at the 2015 CARIFTA Games in a championship record time of 46.64. On March 19, 2016, Christopher Taylor delivered an extraordinary performance at the ISSA High School Championships in Jamaica, breaking national records and making a massive contribution in bringing his school, Calabar High School, to their 7th consecutive victory. He also won the 2018 Jamaica Senior National Championships with a personal best and NJR of 44.88.
Nethaneel Joseph Mitchell-Blake is a British sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He was the 2013 European Junior Champion and his personal best of 19.95 seconds ranks him as the second-fastest in Britain of all-time in the event. He is only the second Briton, after Adam Gemili to break both 10 seconds for 100 metres and 20 seconds for 200 metres. Part of the Great Britain 4 x 100-metre relay team that won the World title in 2017, he won his first major individual honour, a silver medal, in the individual 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships before claiming another relay title running for Great Britain, the eventual gold medalists, in the heats of the 4 x 100 metres.On 18 February 2022 it was announced that Nethaneel and his teammates CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes and Richard Kilty would be stripped of their 4 × 100 metres relay 2020 Summer Olympics silver medals after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found CJ Ujah guilty of a doping violation.
Rosemary Chukwuma is a Nigerian sprinter. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games as well as a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2019 African Games. In 2018, she won a gold medal in the 100 metres at the Summer Youth Olympics, clocking 11.17 seconds.
Owaab Barrow is a Qatari athlete. He competed in the men's 100 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. He won the Youth Olympic title of 110 m hurdles (91.4cm) at the 2018 Youth Olympics.
Marlene van Gansewinkel is a Dutch Paralympic athlete. In 2021, she won the gold medal in both the women's 100 metres T64 and 200 metres T64 events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's long jump T64 event.
Mateus Evangelista Cardoso is a Brazilian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. He competes in several T37-classification athletics events. He represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he won the silver medal in the men's long jump T37 event. In 2021, he won one the bronze medal in the same event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Fan Xinyi is a Chinese trampoline gymnast. She won the gold medal in the girls' trampoline event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also won the gold medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event.
Yin Dehang is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He won three medals at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the pommel horse event he won the gold medal and in the parallel bars event he won the silver medal. He also won the bronze medal in the rings. In the floor exercise he did not qualify to compete in the final.
Liza Pusztai is a Hungarian fencer. She represented Hungary at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2018, she won the gold medal in the girls' sabre event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event.
Luke Davids is a South African sprinter. He won the gold medal in the 100 metres event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abdelaziz Mohamed is a Qatari sprinter. In 2019, he competed in the men's 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. He set a time of 20.75 seconds and he did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals.
Keisuke Yoshida is a Japanese swimmer. In 2019, he represented Japan at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. He competed in the men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event.
Nataliia Kobzar is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete. She competes in 100, 200 and 400 metres sprinting events for T37-classified athletes. She won the silver medal in the women's 400 metres T37 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir is an Icelandic sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. She won the gold medal in the 200m at the 2018 Youth Olympics Games. Bjarnadóttir claimed gold in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m at the 2018 European Under-18 Championships.