Traves Smikle

Traves Smikle
Full name	Traves Jamie Smikle
nation	Jamaica
birthday	7th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Kingston , Jamaica
size	193 cm
Weight	126 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	67.72 m
Trainer	Julian Robinson
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 × CAC games 0 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 63.98 m  Pan American Games silver Lima 2019 65.02 m Central America and Caribbean Games bronze Barranquilla 2018 64.68 m  Youth World Championships bronze Brixen 2009 61.22 m
last change: September 8, 2019

Traves Jamie Smikle (born May 7, 1992 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican discus thrower .

Athletic career

Traves Smikle gained his first international experience at the 2009 Youth World Championships in Bressanone , where he won the bronze medal with 61.22 m, as well as at the Pan-American Junior Championships in Port of Spain with 57.18 m a few weeks later. At the CARIFTA Games 2010 in George Town he won bronze again with 58.24 m and also at the Central America and Caribbean Games (CAC) in Santo Domingo he was third with 57.20 m. He then took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , where he finished seventh with 59.59 m. At the CARIFTA Games 2011 in Montego Bay , he won the silver medal in the shot put with 18.58 m and gold in the discus throw with 62.84 m. Then he also won the Pan American Junior Championships in Miramar with a new championship record of 66.58 m.

In 2012, Smikle won the gold medal at the U23 NACAC Championships in Irapuato with 62.11 m and also qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated with 61.85 m in the qualifying round. In 2013 he originally took part in the Summer Universiade in Kazan , but was subsequently disqualified. Shortly thereafter, it was tested for an unpublished banned substance and then banned until 2015. In 2017, he qualified for the first time for the World Championships in London, where he finished eighth in the final with 64.04 m. In 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , winning the silver medal with 63.98 m behind his compatriot Fedrick Dacres and ahead of the Cypriot Apostolos Parellis . He then won the bronze medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla with 64.68 m and the silver medal behind Dacres at the NACAC Championships in Toronto with 65.46 m. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , he won the silver medal with 65.02 m.

In 2011, 2012 and 2019, Smikle was the Jamaican champion in discus throw.

Personal best

• Shot put: 16.28 m, March 9, 2013 in Spanish Town
• Discus throw: 67.72 m, January 20, 2018 in Kingston

Web links

• Traves Smikle in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Traves Smikle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://fansided.com/2013/07/18/jamaican-discus-thrower-traves-smikle-caught-doping/