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Born | 26 March 1965 |
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Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprinting |
Wayne Watson (born 26 March 1965) is a Jamaican former athlete who competed as a sprinter. [1]
A product of Ferncourt High School in the town of Claremont, Jamaica, Watson was a college athlete in the United States, first for New York Institute of Technology and then Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, where he twice earned NCAA Division II All-American honors. [2] In 2020 he joined the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame. [3]
Watson's competitive appearances included the 1989 World Indoor Championships, 1990 Goodwill Games, 1991 Pan American Games, 1991 World Championships, 1993 World Championships and two editions of the World University Games. [4] He was third in the 100 metres at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games and also took bronze at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland as a member of the 4 × 100 metres relay team. [3]