Nickel Ashmeade

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Nickel Ashmeade
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Ashmeade during Rio 2016
Personal information
NationalityJamaican
Born (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 33) [1]
Ocho Rios, Saint Ann Parish
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm) [1]
Weight169 lb (77 kg) [1]
Sport
Sport Running
Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m: 9.90 (Moscow 2013)
200 m: 19.85 (Zurich 2012)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
World Relay Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Nassau 4×200 m relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Nassau 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Nassau 4×200 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2014 Glasgow 100 m
World Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Bydgoszcz 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Bydgoszcz 4×100 m relay
World Youth Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Ostrava 100 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Ostrava 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Ostrava Medley relay

Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.

Contents

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

A St. Jago High School teammate of Yohan Blake, [1] Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone McKenzie over 200 m, and teamed up with the pair to bring Jamaica the 4×100 meter relay title. [2] Another medal haul came for the young Jamaican at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where he was second to Lee in the 100 m, ran a 200 m best of 20.76 seconds for the bronze medal, and helped the national team to another bronze in the sprint medley relay. [3] He competed at the Penn Relays in 2008 and represented his school, St. Jago High School – an institution renowned for producing track and field athletes. [4]

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 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, where he won the 200 m race ahead of Rondel Sorrillo. [9] After a quiet 2010, he made significant improvements at the start of the 2011 outdoor season. In May 2011, he completed his first 200 m in under 20 seconds in Kingston, running 19.96 seconds to surprise the more established Wallace Spearmon and improve upon his previous best by almost half a second. [10] Ashmeade made similar progress in the 100 m at the Ponce Grand Prix later that month, setting a meet record to beat Justin Gatlin, 2004 Olympic and 2005 World champion, with a time of 10.05 seconds (an improvement of 0.24 seconds). [11] Ashmeade competed in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 World Championships. After finishing 5th in the 100 m and narrowly coming 4th in the 200 m, Ashmeade was part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team which won gold.

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 Jamaica at the IAAF World Relays. The most recent being at the 2017 edition of the event in which he won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m relay. At the 2014 edition, Ashmeade won two gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay and the 4 × 200 m relay running the first and second leg respectively. At the 2015 edition Ashmeade won a gold and silver. The gold was won in the 4 × 200 m relay whilst running the first leg and the silver was won in the 4 × 100 m relay running the third leg.

Personal bests

DistanceTimeDateVenue
100 m9.90 s (+0.4 m/s)11 August 2013 Moscow, Russia
200 m19.85 s (+0.0 m/s)30 August 2012 Zurich, Switzerland

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 1st100 m10.60   (1.8 m/s)
2nd200 m21.30   (1.6 m/s)
1st4 × 100 m relay40.83
2007 World Youth Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 2nd100 m10.54   (−0.4 m/s)
3rd200 m20.76   (−0.2 m/s)
3rdMedley relay
(100m x 200m x 300m x 400m)		1:52.18
2008 CARIFTA Games (U-20) Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1st200 m20.16 w  (5.2 m/s)
1st4 × 100 m relay39.80
1st4 × 400 m relay3:09.71
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 1st200 m20.56 w  (2.3 m/s)
1st4 × 100 m relay40.05
2nd4 × 400 m relay3:11.49
2011 2011 World Championships in Athletics Daegu, South Korea 5th200 m20.29
2013 2013 World Championships in Athletics Moscow, Russia 5th100 m9.98   (−0.3 m/s)
4th200 m20.05   (0.0 m/s)
1st4 × 100 m relay37.36
2014 2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 3rd100 m10.12   (0.0 m/s)
1st4 × 100 m relay37.58
2014 World Relay Championships Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4 × 100 m relay 37.77
1st 4 × 200 m relay 1:18.63 WR
2015 World Relay Championships Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4 × 200 m relay 1:20.97
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 37.68
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 14th (sf)100 m 10.06
8th200 m 20.33
1st 4 × 100 m relay 37.36
2016 2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1st 4 × 100 m relay 37.27
2017 World Relay Championships Nassau, Bahamas, Bahamas 3rd 4 × 200 m relay 1:21.09 SB

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References

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  2. ↑ 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships Archived 31 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
  3. ↑ 2007 World Youth Championships Archived 4 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
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  5. ↑ 2008 World Junior Championships Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
  6. ↑ Carifta Games 2008 Archived 23 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
  7. ↑ Carifta Games 2009 Archived 22 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
  8. ↑ Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Archived 23 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine . WJAH. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
  9. ↑ Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2009-07-06). Culson prevails over Sanchez as six more records fall – CAC Champs Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
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