Nickel Ashmeade
Ashmeade (right) at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu
Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter.
Career
Ashmeade won at the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships in Ostrava silver in the 100 - meter race and bronze over the 200 meters. A year later he was at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz Second on the 200 meters.
In June 2011, he presented at the National Training Centre in Clermont Sprint Series with 9.96 s, a new personal best time over 100 meters, and thus became the eleventh Jamaicans that has run under 10 seconds per 100 meters.
At the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, he reached the final of the 200 meters and came with a time of 20.29 seconds to fifth place.
In the Memorial Van Damme, he presented with 19.91 s over 200 meters his new personal best and came third behind Blake and Dix to the finish.
In the fourth Diamond League meeting in Eugene in 2012 he presented second behind Justin Gatlin with his new personal best to 9.93 s. At the Jamaican Trials, he could not qualify for the 200 - meter distance at the Olympics on July 1. After a strong cornering he could not keep his pace on the straight and was only fourth with 20.16 s. In the Herculis Monaco on July 20, he won in 20.02 seconds before Martina and Spearmon. On August 23, he was at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne with 19.94 s only third, three days later he was able to increase and won in Birmingham with 20.12 s at the season finale of the Diamond League 200m he arrived in Zurich as the runner-up and therefore won the prize of $ 40,000 overall standings Usain Bolt. But to this he was beaten in the race despite s new personal best of 19.85.
In 2013 he made directly to its good performance. On May 4, he played at the Jamaican Invitational in his first race, he s with 20.00 ahead of compatriot and rival Warren Weir, who secured last year at the Trials before Ashmeade third place for the Olympics, won. On May 25, in New York, he competed in the Adidas Grand Prix in the 100 meters. On a wet track, he qualified in the semifinals with 10.20 s and the first place in his run for the finals, where he finished sixth but only with 10.30 s. On 1 June, he won the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene with 20.14 s In the Jamaican Championships, he was in the 100 -meter final with 9.99 s third and was thus able to qualify for the World Championships in Moscow. Also about 200 meters, he secured a second place to the World Cup. In the final he came to 20,06 s behind Warren Weir to the finish, he had beaten in the semifinals. In the two Diamond League meetings in Lausanne and Paris at the beginning of July, he was only fifth. In Lausanne he was about 100 meters, started in Paris over 200 meters. At the World Championships he placed first in the semi-finals with 9.90 s, a new personal best and moved as Fastest time to the final. He was fifth in 9.98 s. In the 200-meter competition, he missed a medal by one hundredth of a second. With 20.05 s he came behind the Americans Curtis Mitchell to the finish. His awaited medal he won then together with the 4 x 100 - meter relay in the occupation Carter, Bailey - Cole and Bolt. In Zurich he showed with a second place finish in 9.94 s behind Usain Bolt and before Justin Gatlin a good race in the season finale, before he improved his season best with 19.93 in Brussels and with a second place behind Warren Weir also second in the Diamond Race rating was.