John Mair (athlete)

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John Mair
Personal information
Born20 November 1963 (60 years, 152 days old)
Sport
College team West Virginia Mountaineers [1]
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1987 Rome 4×100 m relay
Pan American Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1987 Indianapolis 4×100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990 Auckland 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990 Auckland 4×400 m relay

John Mair (born 20 November 1963) is a Jamaican former track and field sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He won several medals with the Jamaican relay team, taking Jamaica's first World Championships relay medal (a bronze) at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, as well as a bronze medal at the Pan American Games in 1987 and two relay bronze medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

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He set a 100 m personal best of 10.18 seconds in 1992. [2] He was the 1990 Jamaican champion in the 100 m and was the gold medallist at that distance at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in 1991. He represented his country in the 100 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he was also fourth in the relay.

Career

Mair only reached international level of the sport at age twenty-three and did not compete at a high level in his youth. His first major competition was the 1987 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and he came away with three medals: bronze medals in the 100 m and 200 m, and a gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay. [3] This marked the beginning of much success with the Jamaican men's relay team. At the 1987 Pan American Games the following month he was eighth in the 200 m final and claimed a bronze medal in the relay, running the anchor leg in a quartet with Ray Stewart, Andrew Smith and Clive Wright. [4] The team regrouped for the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, with Mair leading off this time, and won another bronze medal – the first time that Jamaican men won a relay medal at the competition. [5]

Mair made him Olympic debut at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and, after being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the individual 100 m, he joined up with Christopher Faulknor, Greg Meghoo, and Clive Wright for the relay. The team came close to their World Championship medal-winning time in the 4×100 m relay final, but ended in fourth behind the French team who were seven hundredths faster. [2] A double bronze medal win came for Mair at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as the Jamaican men took third in both the 4×100 m relay and 4×400 metres relay (Mair and Wright ran in both teams, with Ray Stewart and Wayne Watson being in the 100 m team and Devon Morris and Howard Burnett in the longer sprint quartet). Mair also placed sixth in the semi-finals of the 100 m individually. [6] He was the Jamaican champion over 100 m that year, interrupting a long-running streak of national titles by Ray Stewart. [7]

Four years on from his debut year, he returned to the same competitions. He won the highest individual honour of his career at the 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, taking the 100 m title, and was also a relay silver medallist. [3] The 1991 Pan American Games followed and he placed fifth in the 100 m, but did not take a medal in the relay. The 1991 World Championships in Athletics brought together a team of Dennis Mowatt, Ray Stewart, Michael Green, and Mair on the anchor leg. The group did not reach the heights of four years earlier, but performed well with a time of 38.67 seconds to place sixth in the final. [8]

He set a best of 10.18 seconds for the 100 m in Kingston, Jamaica that year – this was a lifetime best and the only time that he ranked in the top thirty globally for the event in his career. [9] He did not compete at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His final international outings were a run in the early rounds of the 200 m at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships, [10] and appearances at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where he ran in the 100 m heats and was five hundredths short of a relay medal in fourth. [6]

National titles

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
1987 CAC Championships Caracas, Venezuela3rd100 m10.39
3rd200 m20.99
1st4 × 100 m relay39.45
Pan American Games Indianapolis, United States8th 200 m 21.22
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 38.86
World Championships Rome, Italy3rd 4 × 100 m relay 38.41
1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea25th (qf) 100 m 10.41
4th 4 × 100 m relay 38.47
1990 Commonwealth Games Auckland, New Zealand14th (sf) 100 m 10.53
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 39.11
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:04.96
Goodwill Games Seattle, United States 6th 4 x 100 m relay 39.42
CAC Games Mexico City, Mexico 5th 400 m 10.50
– 4 × 400 m relay DQ
1991 CAC Championships Xalapa, Mexico1st100 m10.56
2nd4 × 100 m relay40.33
Pan American Games Havana, Cuba5th 100 m 10.55
World Championships Tokyo, Japan6th 4 × 100 m relay 38.67
1993 World Indoor Championships Toronto, Canada22nd (h) 200 m 21.86
1994 Commonwealth Games Victoria, Canada 4th (h) 100 m 10.41 [11]
4th 4 × 100 m relay 39.44

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References

  1. ↑ "All-Time WVU Olympians". West Virginia University Athletics. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
  2. 1 2 John Mair Archived 2015-11-21 at the Wayback Machine . Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  3. 1 2 Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  4. ↑ John Mair. Brinkster Track and Field. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  5. ↑ IAAF World Championships in Athletics. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-10-03.
  6. 1 2 John Mair. TheCGF. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  7. 1 2 Jamaican Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  8. ↑ Men 4x100m Relay World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Sunday 01.09 Archived 2011-08-24 at the Wayback Machine . Todor66. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  9. ↑ 1992 Men's 100 metres. Mennea. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  10. ↑ John Mair Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-10-10.
  11. ↑ Did not start in the quarterfinals
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