Winthrop Graham

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Winthrop Graham (born November 17, 1965 in Westmoreland Parish ) is a retired Jamaican track and field athlete who won two Olympic silver medals.

In 1986, Graham's best performance in the 400-meter hurdles was 50.03 seconds. In 1987, Graham improved to 48.49 seconds. He won the hurdles at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis and was third with the Jamaican team in the 4-by-400-meter relay . At the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 , he was eliminated with 48.64 seconds in the semi-finals; the Jamaican relay took sixth place. In 1988 he improved the Jamaican national record to 48.04 seconds and was fifth at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Together with Howard Davis , Devon Morris and Bert Cameron , he won silver with the season behind the season from the United States.

In 1990 Winthrop Graham won the 400-meter hurdles at the Goodwill Games . After improving his best performance by a hundredth of a second in 1989 and 1990, he achieved a significant increase in 1991 and, like in 1988, he did so in the most important race of the year. In the final of the 1991 World Cup in Tokyo, Graham improved to 47.74 seconds and thus won the silver medal behind the Zambian Samuel Matete . In the relay race, Seymour Fagan , Devon Morris, Patrick O'Connor and Graham won bronze behind the British and the Americans.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Graham won silver in 47.66 seconds behind the American Kevin Young . The following year, Graham finished third behind Young and Matete at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart in 47.62 seconds. Two weeks earlier he had won against both opponents when he improved his personal best to 47.60 seconds at the Weltklasse Zürich meeting . At the 1995 World Championships, Graham was eliminated in the semifinals, and the 1996 Olympic Games were already over in the preliminary stages.

Winthrop Graham married the German middle distance athlete Yvonne Mai in early 1992 . He is 1.78 m tall and weighed 72 kg at competition times.

Personal bests

literature

  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 98. The Association of Track & Field Statisticians Year Book. SportsBooks, Surbiton 1998, ISBN 1-899807-03-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Graham, Winthrop
BRIEF DESCRIPTION jamaican hurdler and sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Westmoreland Parish