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| Nationality | Jamaican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus throw: 69.67m (Oklahoma, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ralford Mullings (born 22 November 2002) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. [1]
He attended Kingston College in his homeland where he was coached by Caniggia Raynor. [2] [3] [4]
He joined Arizona State University in 2021. [5] He then studied at the University of Arkansas. [6] He later transferred to the University of Oklahoma. [7]
He threw a junior personal best distance of 66.16m at the Jamaican U20 championships in Kingston, Jamaica in 2021. [8] He was a World U20 Championships silver medallist in the discus throw in Nairobi in 2021, with a new junior personal best 66.68 metres. [9] [10]
Mullings threw a personal best of 65.39m in April 2022, whilst a freshman at Arizona State University. [11]
He became the NACAC U23 champion in the discus throw in Costa Rica in 2023, with a distance of 61.18 metres. [12]
In April 2024, he threw a personal best distance of 69.67 metres in Oklahoma, it placed him second on the Jamaican all-time list, only behind Fedrick Dacres' 70.78m set in June 2019. [13] In July 2024, he was officially selected for the Jamaican team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [14]
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Christopher Taylor is a Jamaican 400 metre runner. He won the 400 metres event at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Cali, Colombia in 45.27 seconds, a Jamaica Youth Record. Taylor also won the U-18 400 metres at the 2015 CARIFTA Games in a championship record time of 46.64. On March 19, 2016, Christopher Taylor delivered an extraordinary performance at the ISSA High School Championships in Jamaica, breaking national records and making a massive contribution in bringing his school, Calabar High School, to their 7th consecutive victory. He also won the 2018 Jamaica Senior National Championships with a personal best and NJR of 44.88.
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