Odyssey to Oregon

2022 ODYSSEY TO OREGON

fastest Jamaican in history at 43.94 seconds. Rasheed Dwyer 33 yrs. SB: 20.35, Kingston PB: 19.80, Toronto Ranking: 17 Rasheed Dwyer is a seasoned campaigner for Jamaica at major global championships in the men’s 200 metres. To date, his biggest successes are winning gold in 200 metres at the 2011 Summer Universiade and at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2015, he was second to the current Olympic champion, Andre deGrasse, at the Pan‐ American Games. In those semi, he set his personal best of 19.80 seconds. Dwyer, who studied at the G.C Foster College in Spanish Town, represented Jamaica in the 200 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in which he placed

champion and is currently ranked no.1 in the world in the event. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, Parchment took the silver medal in the final of the event. In addition, at the 2012 London Olympics, he won the bronze medal in a then Jamaican record of 13.12 seconds. Parchment is a former University of the West Indies, Mona athlete who won a gold medal at the 2011 Summer Universiade running a then‐personal best of 13.24 to win the title for Jamaica. Orlando Bennett 22 yrs. SB: 13.27, Kingston PB: 13.27, Kingston Ranking: 55 Orlando Bennett, who is a former Calabar High standout is no stranger to the World Championships stage having reached the semi‐finals in 2019. Just one year earlier, Bennett placed second at the World Under 20 Championships. Bennett won gold in the 110 metre hurdles at the 2021 NACAC U23 Championships held in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Rasheed Broadbell 21 yrs. SB: 13.20, Kingston PB: 13.10, Kingston Ranking: 39 Fast‐rising sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell is one of Jamaica's most promising athletes in the event. Last year, he was ranked fourth in the world after clocking a personal best of 13.10 seconds in Kingston, Jamaica. Broadbell clocked a season’s best of 13.20 to book his spot to his first major championship for Jamaica. Damion Thomas (Alt) 23 yrs. SB: 13.36, Kingston PB: 13.11, Kingston Ranking: 26 Damion Thomas is a former Louisiana State University athlete. He was also an Olympic 110 metres hurdles semi‐finalist at the 2020 Tokyo Games last year with a time of 13.39 seconds. In 2018, he equaled Wilhem Belocian’s 110m hurdles junior world record of 12.99 seconds to win the Junior national

seventh in the final. 110M Hurdles Hansle Parchment

32 yrs. SB: 13.09, Birmingham PB: 12.94, Paris Ranking: 1 Hansle Parchment is the Olympic 110 metres hurdles

Parchment (left) was a surprise winner of the Tokyo Olympic 110-metre hurdles over the USA’s Grant Holloway, but he has been ranked at world #1 during the 2022 season.