 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Roshawn Clarke (born 1 July 2004) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. In 2023 and 2025 he won the Jamaican Athletics Championships 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] In the opening race of the first slam held in Kingston, he finished second over 400m hurdles in 48.20 seconds. [19] In the second 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami he suffered an injury and could not finish the race. [20] He returned from injury to run 48.66 seconds to win the 400m hurdles on 7 June 2025, at the Racers Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Kingston, Jamaica. [21] He won the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in 48.02 seconds. [22] He was selected for the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [23]
| Grand Slam Track results [24] | |||||
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| Slam | Race group | Event | Pl. | Time | Prize money |
| 2025 Kingston Slam | Long hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 2nd | 48.20 | US$50,000 |
| 400 m | 4th | 45.73 | |||
| 2025 Miami Slam | Long hurdles | 400 m hurdles | DNF | ||
| 400 m | DNS | ||||
