Michael Green (born 7 November 1970) is a retired

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n sprinter who specialized in the

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. Michael Green was born in Trelawny. He attended

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Memorial High and graduated in May 1989 where he dominated the 100m. Green's nickname at William Knibb was 'Roach'. After graduating from William Knibb as the fastest male in 1989, Green was awarded a scholarship to attend

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. Michael Green and 100m World Record setting sprinter

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are former students at

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. His personal best time is 10.02 seconds, achieved in April 1997 in

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. With 6.49 over the

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during the 1997 indoor season he was the world top performer that year, together with

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and Randall Evans. Green still holds the fastest first 40m split ever recorded during a 100m race- albeit by just 0.01s- ahead of none other than Usain Bolt's famous 9.58s world record performance at Berlin in 2009. Thus William Knibb High can boast the 2 fastest 40m performers ever among its alumni.

International competitions

References

* 1970 births Living people People from Trelawny Parish Jamaican male sprinters Olympic athletes of Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Jamaica Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Clemson Tigers men's track and field athletes 20th-century Jamaican people 21st-century Jamaican people {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub