Jason Young (sprinter)
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Nationality | ![]() | |||||||
Born | Jamaica | 21 March 1991|||||||
Sport | ||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres | |||||||
College team | UWI Mona | |||||||
Club | Racers Track Club | |||||||
Coached by | Glen Mills | |||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100 metres: 10.06 (+1.0 m/s) (Luzern 2012) 200 metres: 19.86 (+1.5 m/s) (Luzern 2012) | |||||||
Medal record
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Jason Young (born 21 March 1991) is a Jamaican sprinter, competing in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
Jason is a student at University of the West Indies, Mona and won a joint silver medal in the 200 m at the 2011 Summer Universiade.
Young attracted attention in July 2012 when he set a massive new personal best of 19.86 s in the 200 metres at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meeting in Lucerne, beating Warren Weir. Earlier in the evening he had set a new personal best of 10.06 s in the 100 metres.[1]
References[]
- ^ Reid, Paul. "Young's 19.86 excites veteran coach Mills". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
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Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Jamaican male sprinters
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade silver medalists for Jamaica
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs