Jarred Rome

Jarred Rome
Full name	Jarred Daniel Rome
nation	United States
birthday	December 21, 1976
place of birth	Seattle , United States
size	193 cm
Weight	143 kg
job	Athletics coach
date of death	September 21, 2019
Place of death	Tulalip Bay , United States
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	68.76 m (August 6, 2011 in Chula Vista )
society	Nike
Trainer	Art Venegas, Bud Rasmussen
Medal table
Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Pan American Games silver Guadalajara 2011 61.71 m
last change: July 25, 2020

Jarred Daniel Rome (born December 21, 1976 in Seattle , † September 21, 2019 in Tulalip Bay ) was an American athlete and later coach who specialized in discus throwing.

Athletic career

Jarred Rome gained his first international experience in 2000 when he won the silver medal in the shot put at the NACAC U23 championships in Monterrey with a distance of 19.50 m and also won the silver medal in the discus competition with 58.08 m. The following year he took part in the Summer Universiade in Beijing , where he finished eighth with 59.59 m. In 2004 he took part in the Olympic Games in Athens , but retired there with 61.55 m in qualification . The following year he finished seventh at the World Championships in Helsinki with 64.22 m and in 2006 he was fifth at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 62.80 m. In 2007 he was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Osaka with 61.87 m and then reached sixth place at the world finals with 62.05 m. In 2009 he qualified again for the World Championships in Berlin and reached the final there, in which he finished eleventh with 62.47 m. Two years later he retired from the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, with 62.22 m in qualification, but then won the silver medal behind Cuban Jorge Fernández at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with a width of 61.71 m . In 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games in London for a second time , but did not reach the final there with 59.57 m . In 2013 he played his last competition at the US Championships in Des Moines and ended his career as an active athlete at the age of 36.

In 2004 and 2011, Rome became the American discus thrower.

After his time as an active track and field athlete, he worked as a throwing coach at Boston University .

Private

Jarred Rome grew up in Marysville , Washington state and graduated from Marysville Pilchuck High School in 1995. He then attended Boise State University in Idaho , which he graduated in 2000 and was inducted into the Boise State Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2017 he married the former national hockey player Pamela Spuehler . He died in September 2019 as a result of a fentanyl overdose .

Web links

• Jarred Rome in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jarred Rome in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Profile at USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caleb Hutton, Zachariah Bryan: Medical examiner: Olympian Jarred Rome died from fentanyl. The Everett Herald, November 13, 2019, accessed July 25, 2020 .