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| Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Leonardo Ledgister (born 27 April 1999) is a Jamaican athlete who competes in the 400m Hurdles. [1]
From Santa Cruz, Jamaica he attended St. Elizabeth Technical High School. [2] He went to Southern University-New Orleans and then to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. [3]
Ledgister was a finalist at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships in the 400m hurdles finishing fourth in Tampere, Finland in a personal best time of 49.93. [4]
On 30 May 2021 he achieved the 400m hurdles Olympic qualifying standard for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics after he ran a personal best 48.79 seconds to place second at the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) West Regionals at his home track of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. [5] In June, 2021 he advanced to the finals of the 400m hurdles at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, finishing sixth overall. He earned All-America First-Team honors, becoming the first Jamaican to do so since Hickel Woolery in 2009 in the discus. [6]
Ledgister had a disappointing run at the Jamaican Olympic trials where he was the fastest man in the field but did not get past the semi-finals, finishing eighth in his race. [7] Ledgister was subsequently named as a reserve in the Jamaican squad for the Tokyo Olympics, however was unable to compete at the event. [8] [9]
Darvis "Doc" Darell Patton is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events. He is a two-time US Champion in the 200-meter dash and won the silver medal in the event at the 2003 World Championships. He is a three-time Olympian and a four-time participant at the World Athletics Championships.
Michael Frater O.D is a Jamaican retired sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres event. He won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships and a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games for the event.
Dalilah Muhammad is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2016 Rio Olympics champion and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then-second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds. Muhammad was second at both the 2013 and 2017 World Championships to take her first gold in 2019, setting the former world record of 52.16 s. She was the second female 400 m hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the Olympic, World titles and broken the world record. At both the 2019 World Championships and Tokyo Games, she also took gold as part of women's 4 × 400 metres relay team.
Trayvon Jaquez Bromell is an American professional track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. He won bronze medals in the 100 meters at the 2015 and 2022 World Championships. Bromell was the 2016 World indoor 60 meters champion, and competed for the United States at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He was the first junior to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters with a time of 9.97 seconds, the former junior world record.
Janieve Russell is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 400 metres hurdles and the 400 metres sprint. She won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay in Tokyo 2021, where she also finished fourth in the 400m hurdles final in a personal best of 53.08 secs. She is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, winning the 400m hurdles title in 2018 and 2022, and the 4 × 400 m relay in 2014 and 2018. She has also won two relay silvers at the World Championships and a relay gold at the World Indoor Championships.
Danielle Gracia Williams is a Jamaican track and field athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles. She is best known for winning gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2023 World Championships. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships, won two medals at Summer Universiades, bronze in 2013 and gold in 2015, won silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2018 NACAC Championships, and represented her country at the 2013 World Championships, all in the 100m hurdles.
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