Born on 6 October 1982, in Manchester, Jamaica, Michael Frater is the younger of two sons of Lyndell Frater, member of Jamaican Parliament, and Monica Frater. He attended the Ulster Spring primary school with brothers Lindel and Ricardo. His elder brother Lindel, was a sprinter who represented Jamaica at the 2000 Olympic Games. Frater stated that his brother was a major influence on his decision to become a track athlete.[3]
Representing Wolmer's Boys School, Frater set two records at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association National Boys & Girls Athletic Championship held at the National Stadium, Kingston. On 22 March, he won the Class 3 100 metres in 11.10 and the Class 3 200 metres in 22.73.[5]
Frater won gold at the CARIFTA Games, winning the Under-17 100m in 11.07.[6]
1998
Frater won a bronze medal at the CARIFTA Games. Competing in the Under-17 100m he recorded 10.85 into a −0.7 m/sheadwind. He also won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay event.[6]
1999
On 9 July Frater won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the Pan American Junior Championships. He ran the second leg for Jamaica, who finished in 40.27 behind the United States team.[7]
Eight days later Frater won a gold medal at the World Youth Championships.[8] He ran the second leg on the 4 × 100m relay, the team's winning time 40.03 setting a new World Youth (under 18) record.[9]
2000
Frater finished second in the 100m with 10.50 at the Jamaica National Junior Championships on 30 June.[10]
Running for Boyd Anderson High School in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, he won the Florida state championship in the 100m, and was selected as the Gatorade Outstanding High School Track Athlete for the state.[11]
In October, Frater finished fifth in the 100m at the IAAF World Junior Championships in a personal best 10.46[12] and again fifth when running the first leg of the 4 × 100m relay in 40.07.[13]
2002
Frater won the 100 m at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships in 10.07.[14] Although wind aided +2.1m/s the time is credited as a meet record, with the "(w-a)" notation for wind assistance.[15] In the preliminaries of the 200 m Frater ran a personal best 20.63 (wind +0.6m/s).[16] He won the 200 m at the same event, in 20.45[17] Again wind assisted (+3.0m/s), the time is credited as a meet record, with the "(w-a)" notation for wind assistance.[15] Frater collected his third win of the meet when TCU won the 4 × 100 m relay in 39.17,[18] setting another meet record.[15]
On 1 June Frater finished fourth in the 100 m at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, running 10.40 in a −2.7 headwind.[19]
In July at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester Frater finished seventh in semi-final 1 of the 100 m event. He then ran the first leg of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team that won a silver medal, the Jamaican team finishing with the same time as England, in 38.62 s.[20]
2003
In February Frater ran 6.66 at the Conference USA Indoor Championships, bettering the previous meet record while finishing second in the 60 m. He also finished second in the 200 m.[21]
In early August at the Pan American Games, Frater finished second in the 100m in 10.21[23] He ran the first leg of the 4 × 100m relay; the Jamaican team finished fourth recording 39.08. Frater was awarded the gold medal for the 100m and the bronze for the 4 × 100m relay a week later[24] when American Mickey Grimes tested positive for the stimulant ephedrine,[25] resulting in the disqualification of Grimes and the US relay team.[citation needed]
Three weeks later at the World Championships in Paris, Frater was eliminated, running in the quarter finals of the 100m heat immediately following Jon Drummond's on-track protest for disqualification, finishing sixth posting 10.25.[26] He helped the 4 × 100m relay team qualify second quickest[27] for the final, running the third leg in the semi-final. In the final the baton exchange was not executed cleanly between Dwight Thomas and Frater, resulting in a DNF for the team.[28]
2004
In May Frater won the 100 m at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships in 10.20. TCU won the 4 × 100 m relay, giving Frater his second win of the meet.[29]
On 12 June Frater finished second in 10.059 to Tyson Gay 10.051 at the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the University of Texas.[30][31] As a member of the TCU relay team he finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m event.[32]
Frater was knocked out in the first semi-final of the 100m sprint at the 2004 Athens Olympics, finishing sixth in 10.29 into a −1.6m/s headwind.[33] He ran the anchor leg on the 4 × 100 m relay in the heats, but did not get the chance to run for a medal as the Jamaican team failed to qualify for the final, with a season best 38.71 fourth-place finish in their heat.[34]
2005
On 16 July Frater won the Meeting de Madrid IAAF Grand Prix event, recording 10.22 into a −0.7m/s headwind.[35]
In the 2005 World Championships, he won the silver medal in the 100m with 10.05, finishing second to American Justin Gatlin,[36] who was subsequently banned from competition in 2006 for four years after testing positive for testosterone or its precursor.[37] The Jamaican 4 × 100m relay team, anchored by Frater, failed to gain a medal in the final, finishing fourth by .001 to the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team.[38]
Frater was disqualified in the semi-finals of the 100m sprint because of a false start at the Commonwealth Games in March.[40]Patrick Johnson was charged with the first false start, which put the entire field under caution. Frater was removed from the field after the second false start, although he had a slower reaction, officially 0.146,[40] to the gun than Jacey Harper in Lane 7. After a third false start Mark Lewis-Francis was also disqualified from the semi-final. Frater ran the first leg of the 4 × 100m relay, earning a gold medal with Jamaica's winning time of 38.36.[41]
Frater withdrew from competing in the Jamaica International Invitational on 6 May, his coach citing financial issues and "disrespect"[42]
In June, Frater won the 100m in 10.18 at the JAAA National Championships, succeeding Asafa Powell as Jamaica National Champion.[43] He and his brother Lindel are the only brothers to win the 100 m event at the national championships.[44]
2007
Frater, 10.13, finished second to Darrel Brown, 10.02, of Trinidad at the Jamaica International Invitational on 5 May.[45]
In June at the National Championships on a day highlighted by Veronica Campbell-Brown's emphatic victory in the female 100m in a world-leading time of 10.89, Frater failed to qualify for the Osaka World Championships when he clocked a less than impressive 10.46. His only chance was left up to the final semi-final of the day but the exploits of talented schoolboy Yohan Blake (10.19) pushed Nesta Carter to run a blistering 10.17 thus making the third heat the fastest heat of the day. This meant that the World Championships silver medalist was out of the finals and as a result did not make the Jamaican team to Osaka.[citation needed]
On 28 July Frater clocked 9.95 at the 4th Gran Premio Internacional de Atletismo Gobierno de Aragon held in Zaragoza, Spain. The wind for the race was an illegal 3.7m/s.[46]
On 28 June 2008, Frater finished third in the Jamaica National Championships (behind Usain Bolt 9.85, Asafa Powell 9.97) in 10.04, and qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.[citation needed]
Frater won a gold medal in Beijing, running the second leg of the 4 × 100 m relay. The relay team of Carter, Frater, Bolt and Powell set a new world record of 37.10, with Frater recording a split time of 9.01 seconds for his leg. (USATF High Performance Registered Split Analysis). The gold medal was later rescinded by the IOC on 25 January 2017, after a retest of Frater's teammate Nesta Carter found the presence of the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.[48]
In a Jamaican sweep of the medal positions led by Asafa Powell and Nesta Carter, Frater again finished third in the 100m at the World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, in 10.10[49]
One week later Frater won the 100 m at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix on 20 September, the first official event of the IAAF 2009 Grand Prix series.[50]
Frater was honoured in a homecoming celebration in Jamaica and received an Order of Distinction (Officer Rank) in recognition of his achievements at the Olympics.[51]
2009
Frater (left) celebrating the world championship relay victory with his teammates
Frater ran the second leg for his MVP 4 × 100m relay team at the Milo Western Relays held at the GC Foster College on 14 February. The team recorded a new meet record and world leading time of 38.72s for the relay event.[52]
On 7 March, Frater was inducted into the Boyd Anderson Ring of Honor.[53]
On 16 April Frater was nominated for the Laureus World Team of the Year award, as a member of the 2008 Jamaica Olympic Sprint Team.[54][55] Two days later Frater ran a leg of the 4 × 100 m at the UTech Track and Field Classic at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. The teams winning 38.46 clocking was a new meet record.[56][57] Frater also ran the 200 m at the event, finishing fourth in 20.96[58]
Frater next competed at the Penn Relays on 25 April. He ran the second leg of the 4 × 100 m relay. Asafa Powell on the fourth leg pulled up and finished ninth in 41.24[59] A report in the Jamaica Observer on the morning of the event indicated that Powell had injured his ankle in training and was not expected to run.[60]
Frater showed a spectacular return to form at the Jamaica National Trials, finishing third in the 100 m in 10.02 (−0.2m/s wind), qualifying for the World Championships in Berlin.[65]
2010
In a surprise upset at the National Championships, Frater was beaten into second place in the 100 m final.[citation needed]
Following the National Championships Frater did not compete in the IAAF Diamond League events.[citation needed]
2011
A Gleaner newspaper report revealed that Frater had suffered a ruptured knee ligament in 2010.[66]
2012
As part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team, setting the world record and Olympic record on 11 August 2012, at the 2012 London Olympics. Frater ran the second leg, and his split was timed at 8.9 seconds, only surpassed that night by Usain Bolt's 8.8 seconds on the anchor leg.
The progression of Frater's 100m seasons' best times, till 2008
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