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| Nationality |  Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 October 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800 m: 1:43.74 (Freeport, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tyrice Taylor (born 31 October 2001) is a Jamaican middle-distance runner. He won the Jamaican national title over 800 metres in 2025, and that year held the national record for the distance before becoming a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. [1]
He attended The Enid Bennett High School in Saint Catherine Parish. In 2018 he won over 800 metres at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletic Championships. [2] He won over 800m in the boys U20 race at the Digicel Grand Prix Final at GC Foster College in 2019. [3] He won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2019 CARIFTA Games in Grand Cayman. [4]
Competing for Indian Hills Community College he won at the 2023 National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Outdoor Championships in New Mexico, defeating compatriot Kimar Farquharson over 800 metres in 1:46.93. [5]
Competing for the University of Arkansas at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas in February 2025 he ran a personal best 1:46.62 to win in the men’s 800m. [6] In doing so, he was only 0.01 seconds outside the Jamaican indoor national record set in 2023 by Tarees Rhoden. [7]
He finished second in the men’s 800m elite invitational race at the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, California in April 2023, running a new personal best time of 1:45.81 to move into the top-ten Jamaican all-time list for the event. [8]
He qualified for the final of the men’s 800m at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in a personal best 1:45.23 in June 2025. [9] In the final he placed eighth in a time of 1:47.44. [10] Later that month, he won the 800 metres final of the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston, Jamaica in a time of 1:45.26. [11] He ran 1:46.46 to finish second behind Canada’s Abdullahi Hassan at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet, on 12 July in Memphis, Tennessee. [12]
Taylor was named in the Jamaican squad for the 2025 NACAC Championships in Nassau, The Bahamas, winning the bronze medal in the 800 metres in a new personal best time of 1:43.74, which broke the Jamaican national record in the event, surpassing the previous mark held by Navasky Anderson. [13] [14] [15] He was a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres alongside Anderson, as for the first time Jamaica had two semi-finalists in the event at the Championships, with Anderson then regaining the Jamaican national record in the semi-final. [16] [17] [18]
