Allodin Fothergill

Allodin Fothergill medal table
sprinter
Jamaica
World championships
bronze	2011 Daegu	4 × 400 m relay

Allodin Fothergill (born February 7, 1987 in Saint Catherine , Jamaica ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Career

In 2006 he finished sixth in the 400-meter final of the Junior World Athletics Championships in Beijing with a time of 46.68 s.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he started in the run-up to the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay team , which reached the final in third place. However, Fothergill was not used in the final run, where the Jamaicans only came in eighth.

In late June 2009, Fothergill tested positive for the stimulant methylxanthine at the Jamaican Championships in Kingston . First, he was acquitted because the substance is not on the prohibited list of WADA stood, but was later occupied by a three-month ban because the substance has a similar structure to a banned doping substances. Its start at the World Athletics Championships 2009 in Berlin was withdrawn because of this.

On August 27, 2010 he was third at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels over 400 meters in a time of 45.44 s.

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu he started together with Jermaine Gonzales , Riker Hylton and Leford Green for the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay in the final and won the bronze medal with a time of 3: 00.10 min.

Personal bests

• 200 meters: 20.91 s, June 4, 2006, Spanish Town , Jamaica
• 400 meters: 45.24 s, July 26, 2010, Mayagüez , Puerto Rico

Web links

• Allodin Fothergill in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Allodin Fothergill in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jamaicans given three-month ban , BBC Sport, September 14, 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
2. ↑ Belgacom Memorial Van Damme, Official Results - Men - 400 Meters , www.iaaf.org. Retrieved September 4, 2011.