Nickel Ashmeade
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Medal record
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Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.
Nickel Ashmeade ran the third leg for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow which won the gold medal. Nickel Ashmeade finished 5th at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the 100 m in Moscow and 4th in the 200 m.
Career
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Ashmeade focused on the 200 m at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and he took the silver medal in the event, narrowly finishing behind France's Christophe Lemaitre. A second silver came in the 4×100 m relay and he departed from his usual oeuvre to help Jamaica to fourth place in the 4 × 400 m relay.[5] The regional CARIFTA Games provided him the opportunity for further junior medals: he won the 200 m title and two relay gold medals at the 2008 edition and almost repeated the feat in 2009, with the sole difference being a 4×400 m relay silver.[6][7] His final international outing as a junior athlete came at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Port of Spain and he won the 200 m gold in a personal best of 20.40 seconds before going on to take a relay bronze medal.[8]
He made the transition to the senior ranks at the
Ashmeade represented Jamaica in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During his first Olympic Games, he finished fifth place in the semifinal rounds of the men's 100 m with a time of 10.05s and fourth in the 200 m semifinals with 20.31s. He earned his first Olympic medal as the third leg of the 4 × 100 m relay team, anchored by Usain Bolt, with a time of 37.27s.[12]
Ashmeade has won a total of five medals representing
Personal bests
| Distance | Time | Date | Venue |
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| 100 m | 9.90 s (+0.4 m/s) | 11 August 2013 | Moscow, Russia |
| 200 m | 19.85 s (+0.0 m/s) | 30 August 2012 | Zurich, Switzerland |
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Jamaica
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| 2006 | Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)
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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 1st | 100 m | 10.60 (1.8 m/s) |
| 2nd | 200 m | 21.30 (1.6 m/s) | |||
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 40.83 | |||
| 2007 | World Youth Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 2nd | 100 m | 10.54 (−0.4 m/s) |
| 3rd | 200 m | 20.76 (−0.2 m/s) | |||
| 3rd | Medley relay (100m x 200m x 300m x 400m) |
1:52.18 | |||
| 2008 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1st | 200 m | 20.16 w (5.2 m/s) |
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.80 | |||
| 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:09.71 | |||
| World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2nd | 200 m | 20.84 (−0.9 m/s) | |
| 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.25 | |||
| 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.58 | |||
| 2009 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia | 1st | 200 m | 20.56 w (2.3 m/s) |
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 40.05 | |||
| 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:11.49 | |||
| 2011 | 2011 World Championships in Athletics | Daegu, South Korea
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5th | 200 m | 20.29 |
| 2013 | 2013 World Championships in Athletics | Moscow, Russia
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5th | 100 m | 9.98 (−0.3 m/s) |
| 4th | 200 m | 20.05 (0.0 m/s) | |||
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.36 | |||
| 2014 | 2014 Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, Scotland
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3rd | 100 m | 10.12 (0.0 m/s) |
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.58 | |||
| 2014 | World Relay Championships | Bahamas
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1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.77 |
| 1st | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:18.63 WR | |||
| 2015 | World Relay Championships | Bahamas
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1st | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:20.97 |
| 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.68 | |||
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China
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14th (sf) | 100 m | 10.06 |
| 8th | 200 m | 20.33 | |||
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.36 | |||
| 2016 | 2016 Olympic Games
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.27 |
| 2017 | World Relay Championships | Bahamas
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3rd | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:21.09 SB |
References
- ^ a b c d "Nickel Ashmeade". tracklifeinternational.com. TrackLife International. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships Archived 31 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ 2007 World Youth Championships Archived 4 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Frank (2009-04-26). Jamaica's next sprint superstar?. The Philly. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ 2008 World Junior Championships Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ Carifta Games 2008 Archived 23 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ Carifta Games 2009 Archived 22 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Archived 23 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ Foster, Anthony (2011-05-08). Jeter and Ashmeade impress in Kingston – IAAF World Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ^ "Bolt wins ninth Olympic gold medal". BBC Sport.
External links
Commonwealth Games champions in men's 4 × 100 metres relay | |
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| 4 x 110 yards (1930–1966) |
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| 4 x 100 metres (1970–present) |
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