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| Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 July 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | High Jump 2.29m (Chorzów 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Romaine Beckford (born 9 July 2002) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.
From Portland, Jamaica, [1] Beckford attended South Plains College for two years before transferring to the University of South Florida. He set a personal best of 2.21m at the Tom Jones Memorial meet at the University of Florida in April 2022. [2] Later that month, whilst competing at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia in the high jump, he set a new personal best clearance of 2.23 metres. [3] He finished eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in July 2022. [4]
He won the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships high jump title competing for USF. [5] In June 2023, he won the NCAA Outdoor title with a personal best height of 2.27m, in Austin, Texas. [6] In July 2023, he won the Jamaican national title in Kingston, Jamaica. [7] He subsequently competed for Jamaica at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [8] [9] He won the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships in San José, Costa Rica. [10]
He transferred to the University of Arkansas for the 2023-24 season. [11] In February 2024, he set an indoor personal best of 2.27 metres at the Razorback Invitational. [12] He won the high jump at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, doing so with a personal best indoors height of 2.27m. [13] [14] He won the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor title in June 2024, with a clearance of 2.26m in Eugene, Oregon. [15]
In July 2024, he was officially selected for the Jamaican team for the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he qualified for the final, finishing in tenth place overall. [16] [17]
He cleared 2.20 metres to finish fourth in May 2025 at the 2025 Doha Diamond League. [18] The following week he finished in fifth place at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, also part of the 2025 Diamond League, in May 2025. [19] He finished third with a jump of 2.26 metres at the Diamond League event at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025. [20] He won the high jump at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships with a height of 2.25 metres on countback from Raymond Richards. [21] He was third at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in the Diamond League, in Brussels, Belgium, on 22 August. [22] He placed fourth at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August. [23] He was a finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [24]
