Dwight Thomas
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Nationality | Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 23 September 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres,200 metres,110 metres hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Clemson University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Adidas Sports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personalbest(s) | 100m:10.00 s (Linz 2005) 200m:20.29 s (Bydgoszcz 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dwight ThomasO.D(born 23 September 1980) is aJamaicansprinter,mainly competing in the100 metresevent and more recently the110 m hurdles.[1]
Career
[edit]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.[2]
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.[1]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.[3]
Thomas started athletics at an early age, competing forCalabar High School.[citation needed]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.[citation needed]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.[4]
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
[edit]- 100 metres- 10.00 (2005)
- 200 metres- 20.29 (2007)
- 110 metres hurdles- 13.15 (2011)
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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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) |
References
[edit]- ^ab"Athlete biography: Dwight Thomas".Beijing2008.cn.Archived fromthe originalon 2 September 2008.Retrieved29 August2008.
- ^"World Rankings - Men's 100"(PDF).Track & Field News.Retrieved20 May2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^"Usain Bolt loses gold medal after relay teammate found guilty of doping".25 January 2017.
- ^1999 Pan Am Junior Championship, Tampa, Florida - Friday July 9, 1999 to Sunday July 11, 1999,C.F.P.I. Timing & Data,retrieved25 October2011
External links
[edit]- Dwight ThomasatWorld Athletics
- Dwight ThomasatTilastopaja(registration required)
- Dwight ThomasatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Jamaican male sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Jamaica
- Clemson Tigers men's track and field athletes
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Jamaica
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at Calabar High School
- Jamaican Athletics Championships winners