Kemar Bailey-Cole (born 10 January 1992) is a male
track and field
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athlete from
Jamaica
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, who mainly competes in the
100m. He is the
2014 Commonwealth Games
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100 metres
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champion.
Career
He qualified for the
2012 Summer Olympics
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running a personal best 10.00 sec at the Jamaican Olympic trials over 100m coming 5th earning him a spot on the 4×100 relay for
Jamaica at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Jamaica competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was Jamaica's most successful performance in the Summer Olympics; it was approximately the same size from the previous games with a delegation of 50 athle ...
. He later improved his time to 9.97 in
Brussels
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on September 7, 2012. He is coached by
Glen Mills
Glen Mills OD (born 14 August 1949) is a sprinting athletics coach from Jamaica. He was the head coach of the Jamaican Olympic athletics team between 1987 and 2009. He is currently head coach of the Racers Track Club which includes world and Oly ...
who also coaches
Usain Bolt
Usain St. Leo Bolt, , (; born 21 August 1986) is a retired Jamaican sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He is the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay.
An eight- ...
and
Yohan Blake
Yohan Blake (born 26 December 1989) is a Jamaican sprinter specialising in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprint races. He won gold at the 100 m at the 2011 World Athletics Championships as the youngest 100 m world champion ever, and a silver m ...
. In 2013 he once again improved his 100m personal best to 9.96 seconds. In the 100m final of the 2013 Jamaican National Championships, Bailey-Cole finished the race in 9.98 seconds, second only to Usain Bolt's 9.94, despite of a 1.5 m/s headwind, where he earned a qualification to the
2013 World Championships in Athletics
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in
Moscow
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. He set a personal best in the semi final of the
2013 World Championships in Athletics
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of 9.93 seconds where he came second to teammate
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.
Nickel Ashmeade ran the third leg for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow which won the gold medal. Nick ...
, however he could only manage 4th in the final, just outside the medal positions.
At the
2014 Commonwealth Games
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Bailey-Cole ran the
100 m
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final in 10.00 seconds to take the gold medal,
beating England's
Adam Gemili
Adam Ahmed Gemili (born 6 October 1993) is a British sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, and 4 x 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold in the 2017 World Championships in the same event. He ...
who took silver, and fellow countryman
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.
Nickel Ashmeade ran the third leg for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow which won the gold medal. Nick ...
who took bronze. He was a part of the Jamaican relay team which
won the gold medal at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
, running only in the heats.
Personal bests
References
External links
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Pace Sports Management ProfileLondon Olympic Profile
1992 births
Living people
Jamaican male sprinters
Olympic athletes of Jamaica
Olympic gold medalists for Jamaica
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
People from Saint Catherine Parish
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
World Athletics Championships winners
20th-century Jamaican people
21st-century Jamaican people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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