Jermaine Gonzales

Jermaine Gonzales

Jermaine Gonzales at the 2012 London Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Jamaica
Born	(1984-11-26) 26 November 1984 (age 40) Kitson Town, Saint Catherine Parish
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event	400 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best	400m: 44.40 s (Monaco 2010)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Jamaica World Championships 2011 Daegu 4×400 m relay World Junior Championships 2002 Kingston 400 m World Youth Championships 2001 Debrecen 400 m Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne 400 m 2006 Melbourne 4×400 m relay CAC Junior Championships (Junior) 2002 Bridgetown 400 m 2002 Bridgetown 4×400 m relay CARIFTA Games (Junior) 2002 Nassau 400 m 2002 Nassau 4×400 m relay

Jermaine Gonzales (born 26 November 1984) is a retired Jamaican 400 metres runner. He was being coached by Glen Mills and Bertland Cameron.

He had a successful start to international athletics in the young age categories, taking the 400 m bronze at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics and stepping up a level for another bronze at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He missed large parts of the 2003 and 2004 seasons due to injury. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics with the Jamaican 4x400 metre relay team, which was disqualified. He won his first senior medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a new personal best time of 45.16 seconds.

He improved his personal best to 44.79 seconds with a win at a meeting in June in Sotteville-lès-Rouen – the first time he had run under 45 seconds since 2006.^[1] The following month he broke Roxbert Martin's Jamaican record to win the Herculis Diamond League meeting with a time of 44.40 seconds—setting a world-leading mark.^[2]

References

1. Vazel, Pierre-Jean (2010-06-13). Sub-45 for Gonzales, Stewart injured in Sotteville. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-14.
2. Gonzales delivers – Smashes J’can 400m record in Monaco Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Jamaica Observer (2010-07-23).

External links

• Jermaine Gonzales at World Athletics