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Nickel Ashmeade

Ashmeade during Rio 2016
Personal information
Nationality	Jamaican
Born	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 34) Ocho Rios, Saint Ann Parish
Residence	Clermont, Florida
Height	6 ft 0 in
Weight	169 lb
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 9.90 (Moscow 2013) 200 m: 19.85 (Zurich 2012)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Jamaica Olympic Games Gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay World Championships Gold 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay Gold 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay World Relay Championships Gold 2015 Nassau 4×200 m relay Silver 2015 Nassau 4×100 m relay Bronze 2017 Nassau 4×200 m relay Commonwealth Games Gold 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay Bronze 2014 Glasgow 100 m World Junior Championships Silver 2008 Bydgoszcz 200 m Silver 2008 Bydgoszcz 4×100 m relay World Youth Championships Silver 2007 Ostrava 100 m Bronze 2007 Ostrava 200 m Bronze 2007 Ostrava Medley relay

Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.

Nickel Ashmeade ran the third leg for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow which won the gold medal. Nickel Ashmeade finished 5th at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the 100 m in Moscow and 4th in the 200 m.

Career

A St. Jago High School teammate of Yohan Blake, Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone McKenzie over 200 m, and teamed up with the pair to bring Jamaica the 4×100 meter relay title. Another medal haul came for the young Jamaican at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where he was second to Lee in the 100 m, ran a 200 m best of 20.76 seconds for the bronze medal, and helped the national team to another bronze in the sprint medley relay. He competed at the Penn Relays in 2008 and represented his school, St. Jago High School – an institution renowned for producing track and field athletes.

Ashmeade focused on the 200 m at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and he took the silver medal in the event, narrowly finishing behind France's Christophe Lemaitre. A second silver came in the 4×100 m relay and he departed from his usual oeuvre to help Jamaica to fourth place in the 4 × 400 m relay. The regional CARIFTA Games provided him the opportunity for further junior medals: he won the 200 m title and two relay gold medals at the 2008 edition and almost repeated the feat in 2009, with the sole difference being a 4×400 m relay silver. His final international outing as a junior athlete came at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Port of Spain and he won the 200 m gold in a personal best of 20.40 seconds before going on to take a relay bronze medal.

He made the transition to the senior ranks at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, where he won the 200 m race ahead of Rondel Sorrillo. After a quiet 2010, he made significant improvements at the start of the 2011 outdoor season. In May 2011, he completed his first 200 m in under 20 seconds in Kingston, running 19.96 seconds to surprise the more established Wallace Spearmon and improve upon his previous best by almost half a second. Ashmeade made similar progress in the 100 m at the Ponce Grand Prix later that month, setting a meet record to beat Justin Gatlin, 2004 Olympic and 2005 World champion, with a time of 10.05 seconds (an improvement of 0.24 seconds). Ashmeade competed in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 World Championships. After finishing 5th in the 100 m and narrowly coming 4th in the 200 m, Ashmeade was part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team which won gold.

Ashmeade represented Jamaica in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During his first Olympic Games, he finished fifth place in the semifinal rounds of the men's 100 m with a time of 10.05s and fourth in the 200 m semifinals with 20.31s. He earned his first Olympic medal as the third leg of the 4 × 100 m relay team, anchored by Usain Bolt, with a time of 37.27s.

Ashmeade has won a total of five medals representing Jamaica at the IAAF World Relays. The most recent being at the 2017 edition of the event in which he won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m relay. At the 2014 edition, Ashmeade won two gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay and the 4 × 200 m relay running the first and second leg respectively. At the 2015 edition Ashmeade won a gold and silver. The gold was won in the 4 × 200 m relay whilst running the first leg and the silver was won in the 4 × 100 m relay running the third leg.

Personal bests

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Jamaica
2006	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m	10.60   (1.8 m/s)
			2nd	200 m	21.30   (1.6 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	40.83
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	2nd	100 m	10.54   (−0.4 m/s)
			3rd	200 m	20.76   (−0.2 m/s)
			3rd	Medley relay (100m x 200m x 300m x 400m)	1:52.18
2008	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis	1st	200 m	20.16 w   (5.2 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.80
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:09.71
	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	2nd	200 m	20.84   (−0.9 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	39.25
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:08.58
2009	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia	1st	200 m	20.56 w   (2.3 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	40.05
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:11.49
2011	2011 World Championships in Athletics	Daegu, South Korea	5th	200 m	20.29
2013	2013 World Championships in Athletics	Moscow, Russia	5th	100 m	9.98   (−0.3 m/s)
			4th	200 m	20.05   (0.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.36
2014	2014 Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, Scotland	3rd	100 m	10.12   (0.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.58
2014	World Relay Championships	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.77
			1st	4 × 200 m relay	1:18.63 WR
2015	World Relay Championships	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	4 × 200 m relay	1:20.97
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	37.68
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	14th (sf)	100 m	10.06
			8th	200 m	20.33
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.36
2016	2016 Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.27
2017	World Relay Championships	Nassau, Bahamas, Bahamas	3rd	4 × 200 m relay	1:21.09 SB

See also

In Spanish: Nickel Ashmeade para niños