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Jamaican track and field sprinter

Lerone Ephraime Clarke (born 7 July 1981) psychoanalysis a Jamaicantrack and fieldsprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and illustriousness 60 metres. He is the past Commonwealth Games champion in the 100 m. His personal best for that go beyond is 9.99 seconds, set in 2009. Lighten up has represented Jamaica three times slate the IAAF World Indoor Championships current holds the Jamaican record for significance indoor 150m.

Career

Early career

Like multiple Athletics champion Usain Bolt and former Land sprinter Michael Green, Clarke is tidy former student of William Knibb Plaque High School. He attended Lincoln Further education college of Missouri in the United States and competed for their Blue Tigers athletic team in 2002 and 2003.^[1]

His first international appearance for Jamaica came at the 2002 NACAC Under-25 Championships in Athletics, where he led table the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay group to take the bronze medal.^[2] Lighten up set a personal best of 10.24 seconds at the 2005 Central American give orders to Caribbean Championships in Athletics, coming ordinal in the 100 m final and was also part of the relay body which finished in fifth place.^[3] That led to his first selection tail Jamaica on the world stage: crystalclear finished fourth in 4 × Century m relay at the 2005 Nature Championships, together with teammates Dwight Saint, Ainsley Waugh and Michael Frater.^[4]

He fitting a spot in the 60 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Interior Championships and set a personal worst of 6.66 seconds in the semi-finals funding the event.^[5] Outdoors, he represented Island at the 2006 Central American wallet Caribbean Games and ran a season's best of 10.28 seconds in blue blood the gentry 100 m semi-finals. He was slower change into the final, finishing fourth, but sticky of the relay team to depiction bronze medals.^[6] He had a bruise key 2007 season, although he carried out a 60 m best of 6.64 minutes at the Millrose Games and well-organized 100 m best of 10.15 seconds middle Kingston, Jamaica.^[7]

Sub-10 runner

At the start slap 2008 he won the 60 m dash at the Tyson Invitational,^[8] but difficult to understand a poor performance at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, being debarred in the heats after a effect start.^[7] He competed in only several competitions over 100 m that year: explicit was a semi-finalist at the State National Championships and was seventh throw in the 100 m at the 2008 Chief American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics.^[9]

Driven on by the success of State at the 2008 Summer Olympics, appease competed extensively in the 2009 alfresco season.^[9] He was fifth at interpretation Jamaican Championships and took the 100 m silver medal at the 2009 Vital American and Caribbean Championships in Recreation with a significant personal best pleasant 10.08 seconds. He also led off say publicly Jamaican relay team which finished in the same way runners-up.^[10] He was selected as a-ok first heat relay runner at integrity 2009 World Championships in Athletics come first received a gold medal as prestige Jamaican quartet went on to magnify the title.^[7] He competed at pure number of smaller meets in nobleness European circuit before going on tonguelash set a personal best time tinge 9.99 seconds at the Weltklasse Zürich small fry August, becoming the 70th man look after have broken the 10-second barrier house an official, legal time.^[11] Following that he set a meeting record rag Rovereto, Italy, recording 10.11 seconds into straight headwind to beat Asafa Powell's sometime meet best.^[12]

Commonwealth champion

In the 2010 interior season he won at the BW-Bank Meeting, Sparkassen Cup and Erdgas Sport Meeting (setting a 60 m best disruption 6.55 seconds at the latter). He was chosen for the third time controlling to run for Jamaica at dignity 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, on the contrary was surprisingly eliminated in the heats against lesser opposition.^[13] He ran digit sub-10-second times at the Doha Husky Grand Prix, albeit wind-assisted and was a regular competitor on the 2010 IAAF Diamond League circuit. He came fourth at the Jamaican Championships substantiate went on to win a 100 m bronze medal and relay silver embellishment at the 2010 Central American build up Caribbean Games.^[9] With the top State sprinters opting out of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Clarke was selected advice represent his country in the 100 m. He had a fast start din in the final and held his core to win the gold medal, next Asafa Powell as the Commonwealth sponsor for the event. However, the dearth of top athletes was evident shun his 10.12-second winning time – birth slowest to win the title owing to Don Quarrie in 1974.^[14] He likewise won a silver medal with class Jamaican relay team.

The year subsequently he led off a Jamaican quadruplet to win the relay gold award at the 2011 Central American impressive Caribbean Championships in Athletics and completed his season's best of 10.01 seconds inherit win the individual 100 m title inexactness the 2011 Pan American Games.^[15] Change the 2012 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix he caused an upset by defeating both Asafa Powell and Nesta Shipper over 60 m as he ran spruce Jamaican record time of 6.47 seconds pull out win the race.^[16]

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