Odyssey to Oregon

2022 ODYSSEY TO OREGON TEAM JAMAICA

800M Navasky Anderson 22 yrs. SB: 1:45.02, Oregon PB: 1:45.02,Oregon Ranking: 73 Navasky Anderson is the new national record holder in the event with a time of 1 minute 45.02 seconds. The previous national record was 1:45.21 set by Olympian Seymour Newman on June 21, 1977 in Helsinki. Anderson is formerly of St. Jago High School and is the 2022 Outdoor Individual SEC champion and the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Championships runner‐up in the 800 metres. Long Jump Tajay Gayle 25 yrs. SB: 7.97m, Kingston PB: 8.69m, Doha Ranking: 4 Tajay Gayle is the defending long jump champion as he claimed the world title at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. In addition, Gayle is the first Jamaican male athlete to win the event at a

National discus record-holder Fedrick Dacres is searching for form as he enters the 2022 World Championships.

world championships. Gayle is a former Papine High School and University of Technology athlete, who in 2018, won a silver medal at the NACAC Championships in Toronto, Canada. Wayne Pinnock 21 yrs. SB: 8.14m, Kingston PB: 8.14m, Kingston Ranking: 23 Wayne Pinnock is the current NCAA Division 1 Indoors and Outdoors champion in the men’s long jump while representing the University of Tennessee. Pinnock won his first national title in a personal best jump of 8.14 metres. While at Kingston College, Pinnock also competed in the 110 metres hurdles where he won the Class 1 Boys finals at 2019 the ISSA/ Grace Kennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics

Championships in record time. In addition, he claimed the bronze medal in the long jump at the World Under‐20 Championships in Tampere, Finland in 2018.

World champion Tajay Gayle picked up a fresh leg injury at the 2022 national trials and will have an uphill task to retain his title.

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