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The range and significance of variation in the human skeleton

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Dwight Thomas

Dwight Thomas

Dwight Thomas during the 2010 FBK-Games
Personal information
Nationality  Jamaica
Born September 23, 1980 (1980-09-23) (age 31)
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 82 kg (180 lb)
Sport
Sport Running
Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres, 110 metres hurdles
College/university team Clemson University
Club Adidas Sports
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)

100m: 10.00 s (Linz 2005)
200m: 20.29 s (Bydgoszcz 2007)

110m hurdles: 13.16 s (Zürich 2009)

Dwight Thomas O.D (born September 23, 1980) is a Jamaican sprinter mainly competing in the 100 metres event and more recently the 110m hurdles.[1]

He won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 1998 at the 100m and Gold medal in the 4x100m relay, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics and finished 5th at the 2005 World Championships. Later in 2005 he won a bronze medal at the 3rd IAAF World Athletics Final and rank number 3 in the world.

Thomas represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Michael Frater, Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell. In their qualification heat they placed first in front of Canada, Germany and China. 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 by Usain Bolt for the final race and they sprinted to a new World Record time of 37.10 seconds, claiming the gold medal.[1]

Dwight started athletics at an early age competing for Calabar High school in Kingston Jamaica winning the 100m and the 200m and set two records at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association National Boys & Girls Athletic Championship held at the National Stadium, Kingston. On March 22, he won the Class 2 100 metres in 10.80sec and the Class 2 110 metres hurdles in 14.08.[3]

Thomas won the 100m at CARIFTA Games, winning the Under-20 100 m in 10.42second.

At the 1998 World junior Championship in Annecy France Thomas competed for Jamaica winning a Bronze medal in the 100m the first in his country history in the event at the time. Three days later winning the 4x100m relay.

In 1999 Thomas Competed at the Junior Pan American Games in Tampa bay Florida winning the 100m in 10.37sec and the 200m in 20.65sec and was apart of the winning 4x400m relay team running the second leg in the finals.

While Thomas attended Clemson University he was the ACC Athlete of the year winning the 60m and the 60mh indoor 100m and the 200m outdoor at the ACC Championship and a All American at the NCCA indoor Championship 2002. Thomas was the Second Place runner up the NCAA Championship in the 100m and the 200m outdoor held at LSU in Baton Rouge to Justin Gatlin who will two years later became the Olympic Champion in the 100m.

Thomas transferred to the University of Florida in the fall of 2002 to continue his studies and coached by Mick 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

Referenced

  1. ^ a b Athlete biography: Dwight Thomas, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 29, 2008

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