Warren Weir

Warren Weir
Weir at the London 2012 Olympics
nation	Jamaica
birthday	October 1989
place of birth	Trelawny , Jamaica
size	180 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	200 m
society	Racers Track Club, Kingston, Jamaica
Trainer	Glen Mills
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 1 × World Relays 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2012 London 200 m  World championships silver 2013 Moscow 200 m  Commonwealth Games silver 2014 Glasgow 200 m bronze 2018 Gold Coast 4 × 100 m  IAAF World Relays gold 2014 Nassau 4 × 200 m gold 2015 Nassau 4 × 200 m
last change: May 7, 2018

Warren Weir (born October 1989 in Trelawny ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 200-meter run .

Career

Weir started his career in hurdles, where he qualified for the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2008 .

It was not until 2011, after he had joined the Racers Track Club and now trained under Glenn Mills, that he began to compete in international competitions over the 200-meter distance: in Barcelona he set his personal best with 20.43 s. On August 6th I was invited to a Diamond League meeting for the first time . At the London Grand Prix he finished second behind Walter Dix with another 20.43 seconds .

The following year he was able to increase his best performance, only on May 5th in Kingston with 20.21 s and a few days later on the Kayman Islands with 20.13 s. At the Adidas Grand Prix in New York it improved further to 20.08 s. At the Jamaican Olympic Trials in 2012, he ran a new personal best of 19.99 s in the 200-meter semifinals , in the final he was third behind Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake with a time of 20.03 s , which he did qualified for the London 2012 Olympics. In London he reached the final in the 200-meter run and won the bronze medal with a further improved personal best of 19.84 s. There, too, he only had to admit defeat to his compatriots Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. After the Olympics, he still took part in the Diamond League meetings in Lausanne , Zurich and Brussels , where he neither got on the podium nor was able to run under 20 seconds. Only with the Jamaica relay did he come in second behind the USA in Zurich with 38.19 seconds.

Weir at the 2013 World Championships

In 2013 he started his season at the Camperdown Classics in Kingston with the 400-meter run, which was unusual for him . He improved his personal best to 46.21 s and finished first. He started the international season at the Invitational, which is also taking place in the Jamaican capital . At the meeting on May 4th he had to admit defeat to compatriot Ashmeade with 20.14 seconds . In May he was able to achieve two victories at Diamond League meetings. In Shanghai and New York he won in 20.18 s and 20.11 s. He started at a local meeting on June 8th over the 100 meters, which he rarely ran. He improved his personal best by almost half a second to 10.02 s. At the Jamaican Championships he qualified with a new personal best of 19.79 seconds behind Usain Bolt for the World Championships in Moscow . This also won the duel at the Paris meeting two weeks later. On July 10, Weir won with 20.01 s ahead of Jason Young in Budapest, before two weeks later in London again in front of Young with a time of less than 20 seconds. In the relay competition at the London Meeting, he and his teammates from the Racers Track Club won in 37.75 s. At the World Championships in Moscow he won the silver medal behind Usain Bolt with an equalized best of 19.79 s. At the end of the season, he won the 200 meter race in Brussels ahead of Ashmeade and secured first place in the Diamond Race classification, endowed with 40,000 US dollars.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.02 s, June 8, 2013, Kingston , Jamaica
• 200 meters: 19.79s, June 23, 2013, Kingston , Jamaica
• 400 meters: 46.21 s, February 9, 2013, Kingston , Jamaica
• 110 meter hurdles: 13.65 s, June 24, 2007, Kingston , Jamaica

statistics

Wind legal 200 meter times under 20 seconds (maximum legal wind = 2 m / s)

Time (s)	Wind (m / s)	date	place
19.79	0.9	June 23, 2013	Kingston
19.79	0.0	17th Aug 2013	Moscow
19.84	0.4	0Aug 9, 2012	London
19.87	−0.2	06 Sep 2013	Brussels
19.89	0.2	July 26, 2013	London
19.92	0.2	0July 6, 2013	Paris
19.99	1.7	June 30, 2012	Kingston

Web links

• Warren Weir in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the 2012 Olympics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/richards-ross-sizzles-4966-in-london-day-tw
2. ↑ http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120614/sports/sports2.html
3. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/bolt-and-blake-open-their-seasons-over-400m-i