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Nationality | British Virgin Islands | |||||||||||||||||
Born | British Virgin Islands | 13 March 2003|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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Jaleel Croal (born 13 March 2003) is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands. He is the national record holder over 200 metres. [1]
Croal is from the island of Tortola on the British Virgin Islands. [2] He won the U17 200 metres at the 2019 CARIFTA Games in the Cayman Islands in April 2019. [3] He lowered his personal best for the 200 metres to 20.93 seconds at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia. [4]
Competing for the University of South Florida he set a national record and meet record for the 200 metres with a time of 20.28 seconds at the 2025 American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships. [5] He ran a new personal best and new national record, and broke the 20-second barrier for the 200 metres for the first time, in running 19.95 seconds in Jacksonville in May 2025. [6] [7] He was a semi-finalist over 200 metres at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon, the following month. [8]
He was selected in the British Virgin Islands team for the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay. [9] At the Games, he won the silver medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres. [10] [11] He was selected in the British Virgin Islands team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [12]