Bershawn Jackson
Bershawn Jackson 
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| birthday | 8th May 1983 (age 37) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Miami ( Florida ), USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 173 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Sprint , relay race , hurdles race | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 45.45 s ( 400 m ) 47.30 s ( 400 m hurdles ) |
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| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bershawn Jackson (born May 8, 1983 in Miami , Florida ) is a former American track and field athlete who became world champion in the 400-meter hurdles in 2005 .
Bershawn Jackson won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Kingston , Jamaica in 2002 and made his international breakthrough in the 2005 summer season. He was one of the favorites for the finals at the Helsinki World Championships in 2005 , despite his US rivals James Carter and Kerron Clement were rated stronger. He was able to fight Carter down in the final sprint, and Clement had started from the unfavorable first lane, so that he fell out as a serious competitor early in the final. Jackson won the gold medal with a personal best of 47.30 seconds.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he won the bronze medal behind Kerron Clement (47.98 s) and Angelo Taylor (47.25 s) with a time of 48.06 s .
At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , he won the bronze medal behind Clement and Javier Culson from Puerto Rico .
At the end of the 2018 summer season, Jackson ended his sporting career and wanted to work as a youth coach.
Bershawn Jackson is 1.73 m tall and has a competition weight of 69 kg.
Personal bests
- 400 m: 45.45 s
- 400 m hurdles: 47.30 s
Web links
- Bershawn Jackson in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Bershawn Jackson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuart Weir: Bershawn Jackson on 'the next chapter' , on: athleticsweekly.com, September 19, 2018, accessed September 26, 2018 (English)
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| SURNAME | Jackson, Bershawn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami , Florida |