Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JAM
NOC	Jamaica Olympic Association
Website	www.joa.org.jm
in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 (2021-07-23) – August 8, 2021 (2021-08-08)
Competitors	48 in 6 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Ricardo Brown
Flag bearer (closing)	Stephanie Ann McPherson
Medals Ranked 21st	Gold 4 Silver 1 Bronze 4 Total 9
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
British West Indies (1960 S)

Jamaica competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[1] The country's participation marked its seventeenth Summer Olympic appearance as an independent state, although it has previously competed in four other editions as a British colony, and as part of the West Indies Federation.

Medalists

Further information: 2020 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2020 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Elaine Thompson-Herah	Athletics	Women's 100 metres	31 July
Gold	Elaine Thompson-Herah	Athletics	Women's 200 metres	3 August
Gold	Hansle Parchment	Athletics	Men's 110 metres hurdles	5 August
Gold	Remona Burchell Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Shericka Jackson Natasha Morrison Elaine Thompson-Herah Briana Williams	Athletics	Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	6 August
Silver	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Athletics	Women's 100 metres	31 July
Bronze	Shericka Jackson	Athletics	Women's 100 metres	31 July
Bronze	Megan Tapper	Athletics	Women's 100 metres hurdles	2 August
Bronze	Ronald Levy	Athletics	Men's 110 metres hurdles	5 August
Bronze	Junelle Bromfield Shericka Jackson Roneisha McGregor Janieve Russell Stacey-Ann Williams	Athletics	Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	7 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	20	22	42
Boxing	1	0	1
Diving	1	0	1
Gymnastics	0	1	1
Judo	0	1	1
Swimming	1	1	2
Total	23	25	48

Athletics

Main articles: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaican athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): ^{[2] [3]}

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• OR - Olympic record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yohan Blake	100 m	Bye		10.06	2 Q	10.14	6	Did not advance
Oblique Seville		Bye		10.04	2 Q	10.09	4	Did not advance
Tyquendo Tracey		Bye		DNS		Did not advance
Yohan Blake	200 m	DNS		—		Did not advance
Rasheed Dwyer		20.31	1 Q			20.13	2 Q	20.21	7
Julian Forte		20.65	6			Did not advance
Nathon Allen	400 m	46.12	4	—		Did not advance
Demish Gaye		45.49	4 q			45.09	4	Did not advance
Christopher Taylor		45.20	3 Q			44.92	2 Q	44.79 PB	6
Ronald Levy	110 m hurdles	13.17	1 Q	—		13.23	1 Q	13.10
Hansle Parchment		13.23	2 Q			13.23	2 Q	13.04
Damion Thomas		13.54	3 Q			12.39	3	Did not advance
Jaheel Hyde	400 m hurdles	48.54	1 Q	—		127.38	8	Did not advance
Kemar Mowatt		49.06	4 Q			48.95	5	Did not advance
Shawn Rowe		49.18	3 Q			48.83	6	Did not advance
Yohan Blake Julian Forte Jevaughn Minzie Oblique Seville	4 × 100 m relay	37:82	1 Q	—				37.84	5
Nathon Allen Karayme Bartley* Demish Gaye Jaheel Hyde Christopher Taylor	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.29 SB	2 Q	—				2:58.76 SB	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	100 m	Bye		10.84	1 Q	10.73	1 Q	10.74
Elaine Thompson-Herah		Bye		10.82	1 Q	10.76	1 Q	10.61 OR
Shericka Jackson		Bye		11.07	2 Q	10.79	2 Q	10.76
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	200 m	22.22	1 Q	—		22.13	1 Q	21.94	4
Elaine Thompson-Herah		22.86	3 Q			21.66	1 Q	21.53 NR
Shericka Jackson		23.26	4	—		Did not advance
Roneisha McGregor	400 m	51.14	2 Q	—		50.34	3	Did not advance
Candice McLeod		51.09	1 Q			49.51 PB	2 Q	49.87	5
Stephenie Ann McPherson		50.89	1 Q			49.34 PB	1 Q	49.61	4
Natoya Goule	800 m	1:59.83	1 Q	—		1:59:57	1 Q	1:58.26	8
Aisha Praught-Leer	1500 m	4:15.31	13	—		Did not advance
Britany Anderson	100 m hurdles	12.67	1 Q	—		12.40 PB	1 Q	13.24	8
Megan Tapper		12.53 PB	2 Q			12.62	2 Q	12.55
Yanique Thompson		12.74	2 Q			DNF		Did not advance
Leah Nugent	400 m hurdles	DSQ		—		Did not advance
Janieve Russell		54.81	2 Q			54.10	2 Q	53.08 PB	4
Ronda Whyte		DSQ				Did not advance
Remona Burchell* Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Shericka Jackson Natasha Morrison* Elaine Thompson-Herah Briana Williams	4 × 100 m relay	42:14	3 Q	—				41.02 NR
Junelle Bromfield Shericka Jackson Roneisha McGregor Janieve Russell Stacey-Ann Williams	4 × 400 m relay	3:21.45	2 Q	—				3:21.24

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sean Bailey Karayme Bartley Junelle Bromfield* Tovea Jenkins Stacey-Ann Williams	4 × 400 m relay	3:11.76	3 Q	3:14.95	7

Field events

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Tajay Gayle	Long jump	8.14	4 q	7.69	11
Carey McLeod	Long jump	7.75	21	Did not advance
	Triple jump	16.01	24	Did not advance
Fedrick Dacres	Discus throw	62.91	13	Did not advance
Traves Smikle		59.04	25	Did not advance
Chad Wright		62.93	12 q	62.56	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Tissanna Hickling	Long jump	6.22	24	Did not advance
Chanice Porter		6.19	25	Did not advance
Shanieka Ricketts	Triple jump	14.43	6 Q	14.84	4
Kimberly Williams		14.30	9 q	14.51	8
Lloydricia Cameron	Shot put	17.43	22	Did not advance
Danniel Thomas-Dodd		18.37	13	Did not advance
Shadae Lawrence	Discus throw	62.27	12 q	62.12	7

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaica entered one boxer into the Olympic tournament for the first time since 1996. With the cancellation of the 2021 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ricardo Brown finished fourth in the men's super heavyweight division to secure a place on the Jamaican team based on the IOC's Boxing Task Force Rankings. ^[4]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ricardo Brown	Men's super heavyweight	Bye	Kumar  (IND) L 1–4	Did not advance

Diving

Main articles: Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaica entered one diver into the Olympic competition by finishing in the top eighteen of the men's springboard at the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup in Tokyo, Japan. ^[5]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yona Knight-Wisdom	Men's 3 m springboard	411.65	13 Q	362.95	15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Artistic

Jamaica entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. British-born Danusia Francis booked a spot in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing ninth out of the twenty gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. ^{[6] [7]}

Two days prior to the competition Francis learned she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. She therefore withdrew from the balance beam, the vault and the floor exercise. She chose to continue to compete in the uneven bars with her knee bandaged, scoring the lowest of any competitor as the judges deducted 6.5 points for various infractions and gave her only a 0.5 difficulty score. However, her 9.033 execution score was the highest for any athlete on any apparatus. ^[8]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Danusia Francis	All-around	WD	3.033	WD				Did not advance

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

For the first time in history, Jamaica qualified one judoka for the women's middleweight category (70 kg) at the Games. Ebony Drysdale Daley accepted a continental berth from the Americas as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021. ^[9]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ebony Drysdale Daley	Women's –70 kg	Timo  (POR) L 00–10	Did not advance

Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaican swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): ^{[10] [11]}

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Keanan Dols	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:00.25	34	Did not advance
	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:04.29	43	Did not advance
Alia Atkinson	Women's 100 m breaststroke	1:07.70	22	Did not advance

See also

• Jamaica at the 2019 Pan American Games

References

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