Lerone Clarke
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Nationality | Jamaican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Trelawny, Jamaica | 7 July 1981|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 60m: 6.47 100m: 9.99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lerone Ephraime Clarke (born 7 July 1981) is a
Career
Early career
Like multiple Olympic champion
His first international appearance for Jamaica came at the
He earned a spot in the 60 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and set a personal best of 6.66 seconds in the semi-finals of the event.[5] Outdoors, he represented Jamaica at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and ran a season's best of 10.28 seconds in the 100 m semi-finals. He was slower in the final, finishing fourth, but led of the relay team to the bronze medals.[6] He had a low key 2007 season, although he achieved a 60 m best of 6.64 seconds at the Millrose Games and a 100 m best of 10.15 seconds in Kingston, Jamaica.[7]
Sub-10 runner
At the start of 2008 he won the 60 m sprint at the Tyson Invitational,[8] but had a poor performance at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, being eliminated in the heats after a slow start.[7] He competed in only two competitions over 100 m that year: he was a semi-finalist at the Jamaican National Championships and was seventh in the 100 m at the 2008 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics.[9]
Driven on by the success of Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he competed extensively in the 2009 outdoor season.[9] He was fifth at the Jamaican Championships and took the 100 m silver medal at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics with a significant personal best of 10.08 seconds. He also led off the Jamaican relay team which finished as runners-up.[10] He was selected as a first heat relay runner at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and received a gold medal as the Jamaican quartet went on to win the title.[7] He competed at a number of smaller meets in the European circuit before going on to set a personal best time of 9.99 seconds at the Weltklasse Zürich in August, becoming the 70th man to have broken the 10-second barrier with an official, legal time.[11] Following this he set a meeting record at Rovereto, Italy, recording 10.11 seconds into a headwind to beat Asafa Powell's previous meet best.[12]
Commonwealth champion
In the 2010 indoor season he won at the
The year after he led off a Jamaican quartet to win the relay gold medal at the
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2002 | NACAC U-25 Championships | San Antonio, Texas, United States
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4th | 100m | 10.50 (wind: +0.3 m/s) |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.86 | |||
Central American and Caribbean Games | San Salvador, El Salvador | 6th | 100m | 10.49 w (wind: 2.1 m/s) |
References
- ^ Kortz, Brian (2010-10-08). Former Blue Tiger Lerone Clarke Takes 100-Meter at Commonwealth Games. Blue Tigers. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2002 NACAC Under 25 T&F Championships Full Results. USA Track & Field. Retrieved on 29 December 2011.
- ^ XX CAC Senior Championships - 2005 Archived 14 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. ATHLECAC (2005). Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2005 World Championships - Men's 4x100 m relay final Archived 21 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2006 World Indoor Championships - Men's 60 metres semi-final. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2006 CAC Games results[usurped] . Mayaguez2010. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ a b c Clarke, Lerone. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2008 Tyson Invitational results. Michigan Go Blues. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ a b c Lerone Clarke. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ 2009 CAC Championships Archived 2 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Inder.cu. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ Bolt wins, Richards stays in hunt for $1 million jackpot Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Track Alerts (2009-08-28). Retrieved on 2009-09-04.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-09-04.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-21.
- ^ Games-Clarke keeps Jamaican flag flying in absence of Bolt. Reuters (2010-10-07). Retrieved on 2010-10-07.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^ Brown, Matthew (2012-02-18). Liu Xiang, Clarke, Ennis and Defar delight Birmingham. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.