Jamaica Sports 876 Digizine - Blazing in Budapest

2023 BLAZING IN BUDAPEST

HUBERT’S TOP 5 1. Bolt’s world‐record 100/200m double in Berlin 2009 

2. Men’s 4x100m world‐record 37.04 in Daegu 2011

3. Melaine Walker’s 2009 400m hurdles win with what was then the second‐fastest me ever, 52.42, with the world record just 0.03 away

4. Women’s 1‐2‐3 in the 100m in Eugene 2022

5. Tajay Gayle’s 2019 long jump upset with a naonal record of 8.69m – number 10 all‐me

HONOURABLE MENTION 6. Oey’s big anchor leg is Jamaica’s first world 4x100m gold and first sub‐42 in 1991 7. Trecia Smith winning the 2005 triple jump despite an injured ankle. It is Jamaica’s first field event gold medal at the WC or the Olympic Games. 

ALL‐TIME WC MEDALS 1983‐2022

JAMAICA WC MEDALS YEAR G S B TOTAL 1983 1 1 1 3 1987 0 1 3 4 1991 1 1 3 5 1993 1 1 3 5 1995 1 4 2 7 1997 0 4 3 7 1999 0 2 4 6 2001 1 3 2 8 2003 0 4 2 6 2005 1 5 2 8 2007 1 6 3 10 2009 7 4 2 13 2011 4 4 1 9 2013 6 2 2 10 2015 7 2 3 12 2017 1 0 3 4 2019 3 5 3 11 2202 2 2 7 11

TOP 10 COUNTRIES COUNTRY G

S

B TOTAL

1 USA

183 126 105 414

2 Kenya

62 55 44 161

3 Russia

42 52 48 142

8. Shericka Jackson’s 21.45, 2022

4 Germany

39 36 48 123

9. Bolt comes off his sick bed and beats Gatlin in the 100 2015

5 Jamaica

37 56 44 137

6 Ethiopia

33 34 28 95

10. Bert Cameron beats the Finland chill to win Jamaica’s first WC gold in the men’s 400 in 1983. 11. The upset win by Jamaica in the 2015 women’s 4x400 with Novlene Williams‐Mills coming from behind to secure the gold.

7 Great Britain 31 37 43 111

8 USSR

23 27 28 78

9 China

22 26 25 73

10 Cuba

22 24 14 60

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