Michael Frater

Michael Frater
Michael Frater 2009 in Berlin
nation	Jamaica
birthday	October 6, 1982
place of birth	Manchester Parish , Jamaica
size	175 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 4 × 100 m relay
society	Racers Track Club
Trainer	Glenn Mills
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Youth World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 2012 London 4 × 100 m  World championships silver 2005 Helsinki 100 m gold 2009 Berlin 4 × 100 m gold 2011 Daegu 4 × 100 m  Youth World Championships gold 1999 Bydgoszcz 4 × 100 m
last change: January 25, 2013

Michael Frater (born October 6, 1982 in Manchester Parish ) is a Jamaican sprinter who focuses on the 100-meter run .

Career

At the 2003 World Championships in Paris, his first world championship, he was eliminated in the quarter-finals. The following year he advanced to the semi-finals of the Olympic Games in Athens .

Frater celebrated the greatest success of his career so far at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. In the final over 100 meters, he won the silver medal in 10.05 seconds behind the US Olympic champion Justin Gatlin . The success was all the more surprising when Frater's personal best was just 10.03 seconds.

In 2008 he was sixth at the Olympic Games in Beijing in his personal best of 9.97 s. With the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay with the cast Nesta Carter , Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell , he won Olympic gold in the world record time of 37.10 s. The medal was subsequently withdrawn from the Jamaican squadron by the IOC in January 2017 after follow-up tests revealed doping abuse in starter Carter.

A year later, the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay with the cast Steve Mullings , Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell won the world title in 37.31 s.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , he was sixth in the semifinals with a time of 10.23 s and could not qualify for the final run. But he was together with Nesta Carter, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt world champion in the 4 x 100 meter relay. The Jamaican relay team set a new world record with a time of 37.04 s. In the overall ranking of the Diamond League in 2011 he came fourth behind his compatriots Powell, Blake and Carter.

When he was only fourth in the final of the Jamaican Trials with 9.94 s on June 29, 2012 , he did not qualify for the individual start at the Olympics , but was confirmed as the fourth relay runner for the national team. There he won gold with Bolt , Blake and Carter and at the same time set a new world record with 36.84 s.

In January 2013 he announced that he was moving from his club, MVP Track & Field Club , to which he had been a member since 2005, and his coach Steven Francis to the rival Racers Track Club and Glenn Mills, who coached Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake , among others . As a reason, he gave differences between him and his trainer Francis. At the same time, he reported that he had developed well since the operation on his left knee in October last year and that he would be fully back in training at the end of January. However, his comeback was delayed and he was only able to contest his first race after the injury in February 2014. He made his debut for his new team in a 4 x 100 meter relay race, which the Racers team won in 38.13 seconds.

In addition to his active sports career, he is also the third vice-president of the Jamaican athletics association JAAA.

statistics

Wind legal 100 meter times under 10 seconds (maximum legal wind = 2 m / s) Time (s) Wind (m / s) date place 9.88 1.0 June 30, 2011 Lausanne 9.94 1.1 June 29, 2012 Kingston 9.94 1.3 0June 4, 2011 Eugene 9.97 0.0 Aug 16, 2008 Beijing 9.98 0.6 June 24, 2011 Kingston 9.98 0.9 29 Aug 2010 Rieti 9.98 1.4 0Sep 7 2008 Rieti

Development of the season's best performance over 100 meters

Personal best

• 60 m: 6.62 s, February 14, 2012, Liévin
• 100 m: 9.88 s, June 30, 2011, Lausanne
• 200 m : 20.63 s, May 9, 2002, Louisville

Awards

• 2008: " World Team of the Year " - 4 x 100 meter relay with Usain Bolt , Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )

Web links

Commons : Michael Frater  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Frater in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , January 25, 2017, accessed April 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130104/sports/sports1.html
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.