Lerone Clarke

Lerone Clarke (born December 6, 1981 in Trelawny Parish ) is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100-meter run .

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he finished fourth in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Dwight Thomas , Ainsley Waugh and Michael Frater . In 2006 and 2008 he started at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in the 60-meter run , but missed the finals in each case.

At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin , he was a member of the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay that won the title. Clarke himself was only used in the qualifying round. In the final, he and Dwight Thomas were replaced by Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell . One week after the world championship, Clarke ran the 100 m with 9.99 seconds for the first time in his career under ten seconds at the world class athletics meeting in Zurich .

In 2010, Clarke won the 100 meters at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay. The following year he secured the title in the 100-meter run at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara .

At the indoor meeting in Birmingham on February 18, 2012, he won the 60 meters in 6.47 s ahead of Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell, setting a new Jamaican record. Four days earlier he had also set a new world best for the year in the 50 meters, in Liévin ran 5.63 s and was a hundredth of a second faster than Asafa Powell in January. At the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, however, he could not build on his good performance and retired with 7.04 s in the heats.

Top performances

• 100 m: 9.99 s, August 28, 2009, Zurich
• 60 m (indoor): 6.47 s, 18th February 2012, Birmingham
• 50 m (hall): 5.63 s, February 14, 2012, Liévin

Web links

• Lerone Clarke in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liu Xiang duped Robles in Birmingham , Die Zeit, February 18, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2012.