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| Born | 20 January 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.30m (Kingston, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Shawn-D Thompson (born 20 January 1997) is a Jamaican long jumper. [1]
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| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.30m (Kingston, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Shawn-D Thompson (born 20 January 1997) is a Jamaican long jumper. [1]
He attended GC Foster College in Spanish Town. [2]
He is coached by Marlon Gayle and has based his run-up style on Ivan Pedroso of Cuba. [3] He was a silver medalist at the 2019 NACAC U23 Championships in Queretaro, Mexico, with a jump of 8.05 metres. [4]
He finished fourth in the long jump at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, jumping 8.05 metres but missing out on bronze by a centimetre. [5] He won a bronze medal at the 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, Bahamas with a jump of 7.75 metres. [6]
In June 2024, he finished second at the Jamaican Athletics Championships long jump with a personal best leap of 8.30 metres. [7] The distance also met the minimum standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8]
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