 Roshawn Clarke in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 July 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 400m hurdles: 47.34 (Budapest, 2023) WU20R [1] 400m: 45.24 (Kingston, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roshawn Clarke (born 1 July 2004) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. In July 2023, he became the Jamaican national champion over 400m hurdles. [2]
Clarke attended Camperdown High School, in Kingston, Jamaica. [3] He runs for the Swept Track Club. [4]
In April 2022, Clarke ran a new championship record time of 49.50 for the 400m hurdles, to win the title at the Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships held in Kingston, Jamaica. [5]
In 2022, he was a bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships. [6]
Clarke won gold at the 2022 CARIFTA Games in the u-20 boys 400m hurdles, and defended that title at the 2023 CARIFTA Games, running 49.92 at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. [7] He also contributed to the Jamaican team winning the mile relay, and was given the Austin Sealy Award for the most outstanding performer at the Games. [8]
Competing at the Jamaican national championships, Clarke qualified for the 400m hurdles final with the fastest time. [9] In the final, he won the event in 47.85s, a time which tied with Sean Burrell for the world junior record he had set in 2021. [10] He became only the second Jamaican to run under 48 seconds for the event, and the time placed him fourth-fastest in the world for the year. [11] [12]
He lowered his personal best and set a new world under-20 record at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, running 47.34 seconds in his semi-final. He finished fourth overall in the final. [13]
In April 2024, he was selected as part of the Jamiacan team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. [14] In June 2024, he finished second at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in the 400m hurdles in Kingston. [15]
He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, reaching the final of the 400 metres hurdles, but did not finish. [16] [17]
In October 2024, it was announced that he had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track. [18]
The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The games were first held in 1972 and consist of track and field events including sprint races, hurdles, middle distance track events, jumping and throwing events, and relays. The Games has two age categories: under-17 and under-20. Only countries associated with CARIFTA may compete in the competition.
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