Warren Weir

Weir at the 2012 Olympic Games in London

Warren Weir ( born October 31, 1989 in Trelawny ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 200 -meter run.

Career

Weir began his career in hurdling, where he qualified for the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz.

Only in 2011, after he had joined the Racers Track Club and now trained under Glenn Mills, he began to compete in international competitions over the 200 - meter distance to compete: in Barcelona, he presented his personal best to 20.43 s. On 6 August, was invited for the first time at a Diamond League meeting. In the London Grand Prix he came again with 20.43 s behind Walter Dix in second place.

The following year he was able to increase its Best Performance, only on May 5 in Kingston later in the Cayman Islands with 20.13 s with 20.21 s and a few days when Adidas Grand Prix in New York, he continued to improve to now 20.08 s in the Jamaican Olympic Trials in 2012 he ran in the 200-meter semifinals a new personal best of 19.99 s in the final he was s third behind Usain Bolt and Yohan with a time of 20.03 Blake, thus he qualified in London for the Olympic Summer Games in 2012. In London, he reached the finals in the 200 - meter race and won again with an improved personal best of 19.84 s the bronze medal. There he was beaten only his countrymen Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake again. After Olympics, he still took the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Zurich and Brussels, in part, but where he was not on the podium, could still run under 20 seconds. Only with the Jamaican relay team he came to Zurich with 38.19 s behind the U.S. in second place.

In 2013 he began his season at the Camperdown Classics in Kingston with the unusual for him 400 -meter run. He improved his best performance of 46.21 seconds and finished first. In the international season, he started at also taking place in the Jamaican capital Invitational. At the meeting on May 4, he was beaten with 20.14 s compatriot Ashmeade. In May, he was then able to enter two wins at Diamond League meetings. In Shanghai and New York, he won in 20.18 s and 20.11 s About rarely overflowed from him 100m he went to a local meeting on June 8 at the start. His personal best he improved it by almost half a second to 10.02 s In the Jamaican Championships, he qualified with a new personal best of 19.79 s behind Usain Bolt for the World Championships in Moscow. This also won the duel at the Paris meeting two weeks later. On July 10, Weir won with 20.01 s before Jason Young in Budapest before it in London again before Young was two weeks with a time of less than 20 seconds first. In the relay competition of the London meeting, he won together with his teammates from the Racers Track Club in 37.75 s at the World Championships in Moscow, he brought with egalisierter personal best of 19.79 s the silver medal behind Usain Bolt. End of the season he won the 200 - meter race in Brussels Ashmeade and secured endowed with $ 40,000 first place in the Diamond Race standings.

Personal Best

Statistics

Wind -legal 200-meter times under 20 seconds ( maximum legal wind = 2 m / s)