JÃ©rÃ´me Romain

Jérôme Romain ( born June 12, 1971 St. Martin ) is a former track and field athlete, who competed internationally mainly in the triple jump. He was born on the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint- Martin, however, was of international routes to the island nation of Dominica, before he received French citizenship in 1999. However, in 2008 he again took to the African dominica.

Sports career

First international successes came first in the junior level when he was in Bridgetown won the silver medal in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump at the CARIFTA Games 1989. After he was still failed at the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo in the triple jump in the qualification, he soon began to establish itself in the adult area. At the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993, he finished in the same discipline already the eleventh. In 1994 he finished second in the long jump at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Paris.

The final breakthrough came Romain 1995. At the Track Central America and Caribbean Championships in Guatemala City he won the title in the triple jump and the silver medal in the long jump. Another silver medal he won in the triple jump at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. However, by far the most important of his career, he celebrated at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. With a width of 17.59 meters he won the bronze medal in the triple jump behind the Briton Jonathan Edwards ( 18.29 m, world record) and Brian Wellman of Bermuda ( 17.62 m). It was the first medal win at World Athletics Championships for a dominica African athletes. In qualifying Romain had also issued with a 17.48 m personal best. Its distance from the final list is not best able to because of strong back wind.

Romain started at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in the triple jump and qualified for the final. There, however, he could not compete due to injury. In 1997, he defended his title in the triple jump at the Central Marika and Caribbean Championships. In addition, he was ninth at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris and sixth in the World Athletics Championships in Athens. After changing his citizenship in 1999, he won the French league title in the triple jump. In the following World Athletics Championships in Seville, he finished starting for France to seventh place in this discipline.

At the end of his career in 2001 Romain took at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Ottawa the silver medal in the triple jump. In the Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna in 2002, he failed to qualify.

Others

Romain Jerome attended the University of Arkansas and earned a master's degree there in 2000 in kinesiology. He then worked for four years in the jump area as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin- Madison and was then assistant coach at Brown University. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Romain oversaw the dominica African athletics team and accompanied them at the opening ceremony as flag bearers. He is 1.83 m tall and weighed 76 kg to his playing days.

Bests

Triple Jump: 17,48 m, August 5, 1995, Gothenburg
Long jump: 7,90 m, May 21, 1993 Odessa ( Texas)

Saint Martin 1991 World Championships in Athletics 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1995 Pan American Games 1995 World Championships in Athletics 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1997 World Championships in Athletics 1999 World Championships in Athletics 2002 European Athletics Indoor Championships Odessa (Texas)

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