Bovel McPherson

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Bovel McPherson
Personal information
NationalityJamaican
Born (2001-02-25) 25 February 2001 (age 24)
Sport
Sport Athletics
EventSprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 44.51 (Tokyo, 2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
NACAC Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Freeport 4 × 400 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Freeport 4x400m Mixed
Pan American U20 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 San José 400 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 San José4 × 400 m relay

Bovel McPherson (born 25 February 2001) is a Jamaican sprinter. [1]

Career

He attended Holmwood Technical High School in Jamaica. He won the bronze medal in the men’s 400m at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in Costa Rica. [2] At the Championships, he was also part of the was part of the Jamaican 4x400m relay team which broke a 17-year-old age-group national record with a new time of 3:00.99 minutes for the silver medal behind the United States team. [3]

Competing for New Mexico Junior College, he broke the National Junior College (NJCAA) Indoor and Indoor Championships 400m record when he ran an indoor personal best of 45.58 seconds in Lubbock, in March 2025. [2] Later that year, McPherson lowered his personal best in 400m outdoors with a school programme record of 44.78 seconds, again in Lubbock. [4]

He was a gold medalist at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in both the mixed 4x400 metres relay and men's 4x400 metres relay. [5] [6]

He was selected for the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, running a personal best 44.51 seconds to qualify for the 400m semi-finals. [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Bovel McPherson". World Athletics. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Jamaica's former junior athlete McPherson breaks NJCAA meet record". Jamaica Observer. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Holmwood's quarater-miler Bovel shifts focus from track to academics". Jamaica Onserver. 3 April 2000. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  4. ↑ "McPherson lowers personal best in 400m". Jamaica Observer. 1 May 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  5. ↑ "NACAC Championships". World Athletics. 17 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Nacac Championships". World Athletics. 16 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 14 Sep 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "JAAA names 50-member World Champs team, Thomas-Dodd opts out". Jamaica Observer. 30 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
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