Lerone Clarke

Lerone Clarke ( born December 6, 1981 in Trelawny Parish ) is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100 -meter run.

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he took along with Dwight Thomas, Ainsley Waugh and Michael Frater in fourth place in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. 2006 and 2008 he competed at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 60 - meter race, but missed each the final.

At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 he was a member of the Jamaican 4 x 100 - meter relay team that won the title. However, Clarke himself came only in the qualifying round for use. In the final, he and Dwight Thomas were replaced by Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell. A week after the World Cup Clarke ran the athletics meeting world-class Zurich the 100 m with 9.99 s for the first time in his career under ten seconds.

2010 Clarke won at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in the 100 meters and won in the 4 x 100 meters relay silver medal. The following year he secured at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara the title in the 100 -meter run.

When Hall Meeting in Birmingham, he won on February 18, 2012 on the 60 meters in 6.47 s before Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell, setting a new Jamaican record. Four days earlier, he had also placed on the 50-meter a new Weltjahresbestleistung, in Liévin ran 5.63 s and was a hundredth of a second faster than Asafa Powell in January. However, at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, he was unable to repeat his good performance and was eliminated with 7.04 s in the heats of.

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