Dwight Thomas

Dwight Thomas

Dwight Thomas during the 2010 FBK-Games
Personal information
Nationality	Jamaica
Born	(1980-09-23)23 September 1980
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres,200 metres,110 metres hurdles
College team	Clemson University
Club	Adidas Sports
Achievements and titles
Personalbest(s)	100m:10.00 s (Linz 2005) 200m:20.29 s (Bydgoszcz 2007) 110m hurdles:13.15 s (Oslo 2011)
Medal record Men’sAthletics RepresentingJamaica Olympic Games Disqualified 2008 Beijing 4×100 m relay World Championships 2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg 4×100 m relay CAC Junior Championships(U20) 1998 George Town 110 m hurdles 1998 George Town 4x100 m relay CAC Junior Championships(U17) 1996 San Salvador 4x100 m relay 1996 San Salvador 110 m hurdles CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) 1997 Bridgetown 4×100 m relay 1998 Port of Spain 100m 1998 Port of Spain 100m hurdles 1999 Fort-de-France 100m 1999 Fort-de-France 200m

Dwight ThomasO.D(born 23 September 1980) is aJamaicansprinter,mainly competing in the100 metresevent and more recently the110 m hurdles.

Career

He won thebronze medalat the IAAF World Junior Championships in 1998 at the 100 m andgold medalin the4 × 100 m relay,competed in the2000and2004 Summer Olympicsand finished 5th at the2005 World Championships.Later in 2005 he placed third at theIAAF World Athletics Final;he was ranked #4 in the world that year byTrack & Field News.

Thomas representedJamaica at the 2008 Summer OlympicsinBeijing.He competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together withMichael Frater,Nesta CarterandAsafa Powell.In their qualification heat they placed first in front ofCanada,GermanyandChina.Their time of 38.31 was the second out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. Thomas was replaced byUsain Boltfor the final race and they sprinted to a newworld recordtime of 37.10 seconds, claiming the gold medal.The gold medal was later vacated by the IOC in 2017 when a retest of teammate Nesta Carter found the presence of the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.

Thomas started athletics at an early age, competing forCalabar High School.He won gold medals at theCARIFTA Gamesin both1998and1999.

At the1998 World Junior ChampionshipsinAnnecy,France,Thomas competed for Jamaica winning a bronze medal in the 100 m, the first in his country's history in the event at the time.Three days later Jamaica won the 4 × 100 m relay.

In 1999 Thomas competed at theJunior Pan American GamesinTampa,Florida,winning the 100 m in 10.37 and the 200 m in 20.66; he was also a part of the winning4 × 400 m relayteam, running the second leg in the finals.

While Thomas attendedClemson Universityhe was the ACC Athlete of the year winning the60 mand the60 m hurdlesindoor, 100 m and the 200 m outdoor at the ACC Championship and an All American at the NCAA indoor Championship 2002. Thomas was the runner up at theNCAAChampionship in the 100 m and the 200 m outdoor, held at LSU inBaton Rouge,toJustin Gatlin,who two years later would become the Olympic Champion in the 100 m.

Thomas transferred to theUniversity of Floridain the fall of 2002 to continue his studies and coached by Mike Holloway, the Head Track & Field coach of the Gators. Thomas opted to go pro instead after finding out, he had to sit out his first year after arriving at Florida under a partial release from Clemson University. He would continue his studies at Florida, while being coached and mentored by Coach Holloway.

Personal bests

• 100 metres- 10.00 (2005)
• 200 metres- 20.29 (2007)
• 110 metres hurdles- 13.15 (2011)

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
RepresentingJamaica
1996	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	San Salvador,El Salvador	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.69 (2.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.39
1997	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Bridgetown,Barbados	1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.87
1998	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m	10.46
			1st	110 m hurdles	14.53 (-3.0 m/s)
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	George Town,Cayman Islands	1st	110 m hurdles	14.40 (0.5 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.84
	World Junior Championships	Annecy,France	3rd	100 m	10.40(1.6 m/s)
1999	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Fort-de-France,Martinique	1st	100 m	10.47 (-0.4 m/s)
			1st	200 m	20.79 (1.3 m/s)
2000	NACAC U-25 Championships	Monterrey,Mexico	—	100m	DNF
	Olympic Games	Sydney,Australia	5th (qf)	200 m	20.58(0.0 m/s)
2001	World Championships	Edmonton,Canada	6th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	40.05
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester,England	4th	100 m	10.15(0.2 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	38.62
2003	World Championships	Paris,France	4th (sf)	100 m	10.19(0.6 m/s)
				4 × 100 m relay	DNF
2004	Olympic Games	Athens,Greece	7th (sf)	100 m	10.28(0.2 m/s)
			4th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	38.71SB
2005	World Championships	Helsinki,Finland	5th	100 m	10.09(0.4 m/s)
2007	World Championships	Osaka,Japan	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	38.02(h)WL
2009	World Championships	Berlin,Germany	7th	110 m hurdles	13.56(0.1 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.60(h)
2011	World Championships	Daegu,Korea	4th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.56(-1.6 m/s)

External links

• Dwight ThomasatWorld Athletics
• Dwight ThomasatTilastopaja(registration required)
• Dwight ThomasatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)