Kevon Pierre

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sprinter

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World championships
silver 2005 Helsinki 4 × 100 m

Kevon Pierre (born March 30, 1982 in Trinidad ) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago .

He grew up in St. Kitts and Nevis . When his application for naturalization there was rejected in 2005, he decided to start internationally for his country of birth. With effect from July 25, 2005, his starting authorization for Trinidad and Tobago came into effect.

He celebrated his greatest successes with the 4 x 100 meter relay in Trinidad and Tobago. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he won the silver medal with her. Kevon Pierre, Marc Burns , Jacey Harper and Darrel Brown improved the national record to 38.10 s and were only two hundredths of a second behind the French relay. In the 200-meter run , however, Pierre failed in the first lap.

Kevon Pierre is 1.83 m tall and has a competition weight of 94 kg.

Top performances

  • 100 m : 10.22 s, June 25, 2005, Port of Spain
  • 200 m: 20.47 s, June 26, 2005, Port of Spain

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T & T's Pierre dumps St Kitts / Nevis . In: Trinidad Guardian . June 30, 2005.
  2. IAAF.org: Changes of Allegiance 1998 to 2005 ( Memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 90 kB)