Kemar Bailey-Cole
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Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1992-01-10) 10 January 1992 (age 32) St. Catherine, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Glen Mills | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100 m: 9.92 (London 2015) 200 m: 20.66 (Kingston 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kemar Bailey-Cole (born 10 January 1992) is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who mainly competes in the 100m. He is the 2014 Commonwealth Games 100 metres champion.
Career
He qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics running a personal best 10.00 sec at the Jamaican Olympic trials over 100m coming 5th earning him a spot on the 4×100 relay for Jamaica at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He later improved his time to 9.97 in Brussels on September 7, 2012. He is coached by Glen Mills who also coaches Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. In 2013 he once again improved his 100m personal best to 9.96 seconds. In the 100m final of the 2013 Jamaican National Championships, Bailey-Cole finished the race in 9.98 seconds, second only to Usain Bolt's 9.94, despite a 1.5 m/s headwind, where he earned a qualification to the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow. He set a personal best in the semi-final of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics of 9.93 seconds where he came second to teammate Nickel Ashmeade, however he could only manage 4th in the final, just outside the medal positions.[1]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Bailey-Cole ran the 100 m final in 10.00 seconds to take the gold medal,[2] beating England's Adam Gemili who took silver, and fellow countryman Nickel Ashmeade who took bronze. He was also part of the Jamaican team who won the 4 x 100 m relay in a Games record.[3]
He was a part of the Jamaican relay team which won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, running only in the heats.
Personal bests
Event | Time | Venue | Date |
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100 m | 9.92 | London, United Kingdom | 24 July 2015 |
200 m | 20.83 | Kingston, Jamaica | 19 May 2012 |
References
- ^ "Kemar Bailey-Cole 10.09 PB (+2.0m/s) 100m Jamaica ..." trackalerts.com. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "England's Gemili takes 100m silver". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Athletics 4 x 100m Relay - Men Glasgow 2014 | Commonwealth Games Federation". thecgf.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
External links
- Kemar Bailey-Cole at World Athletics
- Pace Sports Management Profile
- London Olympic Profile
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- 1912: David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh, Victor d'Arcy, Willie Applegarth (GBR)
- 1920: Charley Paddock, Jackson Scholz, Loren Murchison, Morris Kirksey (USA)
- 1924: Loren Murchison, Louis Clarke, Frank Hussey, Al LeConey (USA)
- 1928: Frank Wykoff, James Quinn, Charley Borah, Henry Russell (USA)
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- 1960: Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, Martin Lauer (EUA)
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- 1968: Charles Greene, Mel Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith, Jim Hines (USA)
- 1972: Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker, Eddie Hart (USA)
- 1976: Harvey Glance, Lam Jones, Millard Hampton, Steve Riddick (USA)
- 1980: Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin, Andrey Prokofyev (URS)
- 1984: Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis (USA)
- 1988: Viktor Bryzhin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov, Vitaliy Savin (URS)
- 1992: Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis, James Jett (USA)
- 1996: Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey, Carlton Chambers (CAN)
- 2000: Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene, Tim Montgomery, Kenny Brokenburr (USA)
- 2004: Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis (GBR)
- 2008: Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson, Aaron Armstrong (TTO)
- 2012: Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt, Bailey-Cole (JAM)
- 2016: Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake, Nickel Ashmeade, Usain Bolt, Jevaughn Minzie, Kemar Bailey-Cole (JAM)
- 2020: Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Fausto Desalu, Filippo Tortu (ITA)
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