Winthrop Graham

Winthrop Graham ( born November 17, 1965 in Westmoreland ) is a former Jamaican athlete who won two Olympic silver medals.

By 1986 the Best Graham in the 400 - meter hurdles in 50.03 seconds. In 1987, Graham improved to 48.49 seconds. He won the hurdles at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis and was awarded the Jamaican team in the 4 x 400 - meter relay team of third parties. At the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome, he retired with 48.64 seconds in the semi-finals; the Jamaican relay finished sixth. In 1988, he improved the Jamaican national record to 48.04 seconds and was with this time fifth in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Along with Howard Davis, Devon Morris and Bert Cameron, he won silver in the relay behind the relay from the United States.

In 1990, Winthrop Graham the 400 - meter hurdles at the Goodwill Games. After he had improved his best performance in the years 1989 and 1990 to a hundredth of a second, he succeeded in 1991 and a significant increase as in 1988 he succeeded in the most important race of the year. In the final of World Cup 1991 in Tokyo Graham improved to 47.74 seconds and thus won the silver medal behind the Zambians Samuel Matete. In the relay race Seymour Fagan, Devon Morris, Patrick O'Connor and Graham won bronze behind the British and the Americans.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 Graham won in 47.66 seconds behind the silver American Kevin Young. The following year, Graham took at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart in 47.62 seconds for third place behind Young and Matete. Two weeks earlier, he had won against both opponents, as he improved his personal best to 47.60 seconds at the meeting world-class Zurich. At the 1995 World Championships Graham eliminated in the semi-finals, was at the 1996 Olympic Games already in the supply circuit.

Winthrop Graham married in early 1992, the German middle distance runner Yvonne May He is 1.78 m tall and weighed about 72 kg competition times.

Personal Best

  • 400 m: 45.59 s, September 3, 1988, Westwood
  • 400m hurdles: 47.60 s, August 4, 1993, Zurich
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