Blake is the inspiration of youth to achieve something at a young age, and he is considered one of the greatest Jamaican athletes by sports fans. As of 23 rd August , Blake ran a personal best time of 9. He was once the youngest athlete to break the second barrier at the age of 19 years and days.
The former test captain of the West Indies Cricket Team from to , Christopher Henry Gayle, is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket. Gayle is the only cricketer to score a triplet of centuries A triple hundred in Tests, a double hundred in ODIs, and a hundred in T20Is. Gayle is also the first batsman ever to hit sixes in T20 cricket. He is the most capped player for the Caribbean in international cricket.
Gayle became the highest run-scorer for the West Indies in one-day international cricket, surpassing Brian Lara's record of 10, runs. Besides, he is widely regarded by cricket fans as one of the most dangerous hard-hitters in the sport. Bolt is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter and greatest Jamaican athlete of all time.
In Olympic meter and meter champion, Bolt has won eight gold medals, including three successes at the same time in , , and And with these feats, he claimed his place among the most successful Olympic athletes of a time. Furthermore, he became the first to win two sprints in world record times since fully automatic time was introduced; he became the first to do so since then.
Bolt has won 34 gold medals, 6 silvers, and one bronze in his career. We hope you liked the list of our greatest Jamaican athletes of all time. We really appreciate having the precious feedback of our readers in the comment box. Leave a Reply. His biography has been translated into 51 different languages. He set the metres world record twice, between June and May with times of 9. Powell has consistently broken the second barrier in competition, with his personal best of 9.
As of 1 September , Powell has broken the ten-second barrier more times than anyone else—97 times. He currently holds the world record for the yard dash with a time of 9. At the Rio Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in the 4 x metres relay.
Powell competed in the m at the , and Olympics, finishing fifth in and and eighth after injuring his groin during the race in At the Osaka World Championships, he won a bronze and a silver medal in the m and 4 x m relay respectively, and he was successful at the Commonwealth Games, winning two golds and one silver medal.
At the World Championships, he won the m bronze and relay gold. Powell had tested positive for the drug oxilofrine in and withdrew from the World Athletics Championships as a result. Powell and fellow Jamaican Sprinter, Sherone Simpson had taken the supplement Ephiphany D1 as part of their training regimen, not knowing it contained oxilofrine. It was later revealed that Acacia was substituted with oxilofrine, and not revealed by the manufacturer.
Both Powell and Simpson reached an out of court settlement for an undisclosed amount in September After the settlement, Simpson released a statement stating: "Both Asafa and I are happy that we were able to settle this out of court. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages. Donald O'Riley Quarrie CD born 25 February is a Jamaican former track and field athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the s.
At the Summer Olympics he was the gold medallist in the Olympic meters and silver medallist in the Olympic meters. In all, he competed in five Olympic Games and won four Olympic medals during his career. He equalled the meters world record in and equalled the metres world record in He has lifetime bests of He was the first male to defend either the m or m title at the Commonwealth Games and a m win at the Commonwealth Games makes him the only person to have won that title three times.
He won nine gold medals in the sprints at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics from to He has received recognition both on and off the field. He was a five-time winner at the Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year and a statue of him is positioned at the entrance to Jamaica's National Stadium.
His biography has been translated into 20 different languages. All in all, Bolt won eight Olympic titles and eleven world crowns. He retired from tracks after the London World Championship, but his records will appear in books for evermore: record in meter dash with an extraordinary time of 9. In an age when so many people cheat by using forbidden substances to improve their performance, Lightning Bolt successfully passed every test and retired with an exemplary record.
Everybody misses his slender figure and permanent smile in the tracks. Ottey collected nine Olympic medals and 14 world medals. She was included on the select list of 13 stars that have competed in five editions of the Olympic Games, in the same sport, and have conquered at least eight medals.
In the Moscow Games, , Merlene made history by becoming the first woman from an English-speaking Caribbean country to be on the Olympic podium. Ottey finished her career representing Slovenia. A statue of this athlete can be presently seen at the Independence Park, next to other Jamaican star like Arthur Wint and Donald Quarrie.
This man have an interesting life, which not only included numerous sports achievements, but he was also a pilot of the British Royal Force in WW2 and, after war, he studied medicine. Four years later, in Helsinki, Wint got his second title, as a member of the 4 x meter relay. Campbell climbed to the highest step of the world podium in Osaka , after winning in meter dash. Davis played for five teams throughout 19 seasons in MLB.
All in all, he won three World Series rings: one with the Twins, in , and two with the Yankees, and McKenley was the first Jamaican athlete to win a scholarship in a U. He was good at running in and meters, although he preferred the last one, where he set a world record in , with He also won silver in m, again coming second to Mal Whitfield.
Don Quarrie competed in five Olympic games. Musical artists have also sung the praises for Don. Her nearly eighteen-year long reign began at the Moscow Olympics. From this beginning, she is the only female track athlete who has dominated the athletics world competing in five Olympic Games.
Also she is the only track athlete to have achieved four medals in the same game. Ottey is the first female Caribbean athlete to win an Olympic medal, the first from the western Hemisphere outside the USA to win two individual medals at the same game. Regardless of male or female and outside of the USA, she has won more Olympic medals than any other athlete from the Western Hemisphere. Ottey is also one of two athletes to win twenty medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
In five World Championships, Ottey has so far won thirteen medals: three gold, four silver and six bronze medals, while at the Olympics she has earned two silver and five bronze medals. Source: Galanis Sports Data. D born 15 May is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica.
A five-time Olympic medallist, she is the reigning World and Olympic metres champion. At the Beijing Olympics, she ran the m in Veronica Campbell-Brown is ranked the second fastest Jamaica woman over 60 meters, fourth fastest over meters and third fastest over meters. Leo Bolt, OJ, C. Born 21 August , is a Jamaican sprinter and a four-time World and three-time Olympic gold medalist.
He is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events. He turned professional in , and although he competed at the Summer Olympics, he missed most of the next two seasons due to injuries. His season began with his first world record performance—a m world record of 9.
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