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| Born | 19 November 2000 Clarendon, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft (183 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | UTEP Miners Florida Gators | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Davian Clarke (UTEP) Mike Holloway (Florida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jevaughn Powell (born 19 November 2000) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. [1]
Powell won the Jamaican national championships over 400 metres in 2022. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon Powell didn’t qualify from the heats but did run in the 4 x 400 metres relay in which the team won the silver medal. [2]
He competed collegiately for the University of Texas at El Paso before transferring to the University of Florida. [3]
He finished third in the 400 metres at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in June 2024. [4] [5] [6] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 400 metres in August 2024, reaching the semi-final. [7] [8]
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and race in separate lanes for the entire course. In many countries, athletes previously competed in the 440-yard dash (402.336 m)—which is a quarter of a mile and was referred to as the "quarter-mile"—instead of the 400 m (437.445 yards), though this distance is now obsolete.
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. The first leg and the first bend of the second leg are run in lanes. Start lines are thus staggered over a greater distance than in an individual 400 metres race; the runners then typically move to the inside of the track. The slightly longer 4 × 440 yards relay, on an Imperial distance, was a formerly run British Commonwealth and American event, until metrication was completed in the 1970s.
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