Jamaican Track and Field Athletes

Progression - Outdoor
	Season	Performance	Wind	Place	Date
100 Metres	2012	9.85	0.6	Oslo (Bislett)	07/06/2012
	2011	9.78	1.0	Lausanne	30/06/2011
	2010	9.82	0.6	Roma	10/06/2010
	2009	9.82	1.4	Szczecin	15/09/2009
	2008	9.72	0.2	Lausanne	02/09/2008

Asafa Powell

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Asafa Powell CD (born 23 November 1982) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 m world record between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively. Powell has consistently broken the 10-second barrier in competition, with his personal best of 9.72 s being the fifth fastest time in the history of the event.  As of 2 May 2012, Powell has broken the ten-second barrier legally more times than anyone else; 74 times in total.

Powell competed in the 100 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics but failed to convert his success to the world stage, finishing fifth both times. However, in Beijing with the Jamaican team he won a gold medal and set the world and Olympic record in the 4 × 100 metres relay. At the 2007 Osaka World Championships he won a bronze and a silver medal in the 100 m and 4 x 100 m relay respectively and he has been successful at the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold and one silver medal. At the 2009 World Championships he won 100 m bronze and a relay gold. Powell has won five times at the IAAF World Athletics Final and is the 100 m record holder for the event.

Powell also holds the record for the fastest 100 metres run to place third. In August 2009, he ran 9.84 seconds in the World Athletics Championships from Berlin, Germany.

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Saturday 23 June 2012

London 2012 Olympics: Asafa Powell ready to show the world he can conquer Usain Bolt and the enemy within

The athletics world may have given up on Asafa Powell, track’s great riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Yet the sprinter who believes — with some justification – he has a gift which no one can match insisted here that he still possesses the talent to down Usain Bolt in Olympic year.

As Rome remained abuzz about Bolt’s potential vulnerability following his slowest ever 100 metres final run in Ostrava last Friday, the great Jamaican’s unquestionably brilliant but underachieving compatriot, Powell, was left reflecting that if the triple Olympic champion runs as badly again in Thursday night at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting, he will be ready to inflict his first individual sprint defeat for 18 months.