Athletics in Jamaica

Wint won another silver in the 800 m. Jamaica finished a remarkable 13th in the medal table ahead of the likes of Japan, Great Britain and Canada.

[citation needed] For the 1960 Olympics, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados entered a joint team known as the British West Indies Federation (BWI).

The Men's 4 × 100 m team of John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright and Raymond Stewart won another bronze to add to the medal tally.

At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul Grace Jackson won one silver in the 200 m.[12] So, too, did the men's 4 × 400 m relay team of Howard Davis (Earl Mellis), Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham and Bert Cameron.

She then won silver in the 100 m. She would return to earn a bronze medal on the women's 4 × 100 m team (Michelle Freeman, Juliet Campbell, Nikole Mitchell, and Ottey).

The women's 4 × 100 m team (Michelle Freeman, Cuthbert, Nikole Mitchell, Ottey, Gillian Russell, and Andrea Lloyd) and the men's 4 × 400 m team (Michael McDonald, Greg Haughton, Roxbert Martin, Davian Clarke, Dennis Blake, and Garth Robinson) both won bronze medals as well, so that Jamaica ended with 1 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze.

Jamaica won no gold medals at the 2000 Olympics but Lorraine Fenton in the 400 m, defending Olympic champion Deon Hemmings in the 400 m hurdles, the women's 4 × 400 m relay team with Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott, Deon Hemmings, and Fenton, and the women's 4 × 100 m team featuring Tanya Lawrence, Veronica Campbell, Beverly McDonald and 40-year-old Merlene Ottey, all won silvers.

The feat was made more remarkable by the fact that around 15–20 metres from the line, Bolt slowed down and started to celebrate early by lowering his hands and slapping his chest.

[22] On Tuesday, 19 August, Shericka Williams won silver in the women's 400 m by passing the favourite Sanya Richards (who herself is Jamaican- born), on the home straight.

The same day, Melaine Walker won the women's 400 m hurdles event in a new Olympic Record time of 52.64 seconds, breaking the old mark set in 1996 by Deon Hemmings.

[24] On 21 August, Jamaica completed a clean-sweep of all the individual sprints (100 and 200 m), and confirmed the nation's dominance when Veronica Campbell-Brown successfully defended her Olympic 200 m title winning the event ahead of Allyson Felix of the United States, and Kerron Stewart who took bronze.

On 21 August double Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown couldn't replicate Bolt's 200 m success as she won silver in the 200 m final behind American Allyson Felix in a time of 22.35.

On day eight of the Championships was the day of the sprint relays and the women's 4 × 100 m was without United States meaning that Jamaica were clear favourites as long as they got the baton round which is what they did as the team of Simone Facey 200 m finalist, Shelly-Ann Fraser 100 m gold medalist, Aleen Bailey 100 m finalist and Kerron Stewart 100 m silver medalist on the final leg ran 42.06 to win Jamaica's 6th gold medal.

Usain Bolt was favourite was defend to his titles from Berlin but in the 100 m Final on 28 August he controversially false started allowing training partner Yohan Blake to win in 9.92 seconds.

Veronica Campbell-Brown finally won the women's 200 m World title on 2 September when she ran a season's best of 22.22 to beat reigning champion Allyson Felix into bronze.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the third woman in history and the first Jamaican to retain the 100m title as she won in 10.75 with Veronica Campbell-Brown winning her 6th Olympic medal as she took bronze.

In the women's 4 × 400 m relay Jamaica (Christine Day, Rosemarie Whyte, Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams-Mills, Shereefa Lloyd*) won bronze behind the US and Russia in a season's best 3:20.95.

Carter, Bolt, Nickel Ashmeade, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Oshane Bailey* formed Jamaica's gold medal-winning Men's 4 × 100 m relay team.

The team consisted of Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart, Schillonie Calvert, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Sheri-Ann Brooks who ran in the heats.

Jamaica also won silver in the Men's 4 × 400 m (Rusheen McDonald, Edino Steele, Omar Johnson, Javon Francis and Javere Bell*), and bronze in the women's 400m (Stephenie Ann McPherson).

Jamaica also won two bronzes in the Women's Triple Jump (Kimberly Williams) and the Men's 4 × 400 m Relay (Errol Nolan, Alodin Fothergill, Akheem Gauntlett, Edino Steele, Dane Hyatt* and Jermaine Brown*).

Jamaica got clean sweeps in the Men's 200m (Rasheed Dwyer – gold, Warren Weir -silver, Jason Livermore – bronze) and Women's 400m (Stephenie Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mills and Christine Day).

The Men's 4 × 100 m gold medal-winning team consisted of Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Nickel Ashmeade, Bolt and Rasheed Dwyer*.

In the Women's 200m, Elaine Thompson won silver in her first ever major championships with a 21.66 PB and the multiple World and Olympic gold medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown took bronze.

He was also part of the gold medal-winning Men's 4 × 100 m Relay team along with Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake, Nickel Ashmeade, Jevaughn Minzie*and Kemar Bailey-Cole*.

Jamaica also won three relay silvers in the games in: the Men's 4 × 400 m (Peter Matthews, Nathon Allen, Fitzroy Dunkley, Javon Francis and Rusheen McDonald*); Women's 4 × 100 m (Christania Williams, Thompson, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Fraser-Pryce, Simone Facey* and Sashalee Forbes*); and the Women's 4 × 400 m (Stephenie Ann McPherson, Anneisha McLaughlin-Whilby, Shericka Jackson, Novlene Williams-Mills, Christine Day* and Chrisann Gordon*).

In the Women's Shot Put Danniel Thomas-Dodd set a Jamaican Record with 19.36m to win Gold ahead of former Olympic and World Champion Valerie Adams.

In the Men's Long Jump Tajay Gayle won a shock gold with a World Lead and Jamaican Record 8.69m, winning Jamaica's first ever title in the event.

Stephen Francis a Jamaican coach created the MVP ("Maximising Velocity and Power") club in 2001 based in University of Technology (UTech), Kingston.

Since then there are several high-profile athletes from all over the Caribbean training there, including triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt, under the tutelage of Jamaican Sprint Guru Glen Mills.