- Omar Brown
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Medal record Competitor for 
JamaicaMen’s athletics Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne 200 m Omar Brown (born 21 June 1982 in Trelawny) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres.
He was successful as a junior athlete, winning the silver and bronze medals in the 200 m and 100 metres races at the 1999 World Youth Championships. The following year he finished fourth at the World Junior Championships. He ran collegiately for the University of Arkansas.
He won the 200 metres race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and was ranked ninth in the world for the 200 metres that year by Track and Field News magazine.
In 2007, he married Jamaican Olympian Veronica Campbell.[1] He suffered a setback that year in the form of an ankle injury. He returned at the 2008 Jamaican trials but suffered a hamstring injury, caused by a faulty technique due to pain in his ankle. He underwent surgery in September 2008 to remove a bone spur, but the scar tissue from the surgery hampered his track comeback.[2] He did not return until the end of the 2009 season, taking fourth place in the 200 m at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix.[3][4]
Personal bests
Event Time (sec) Venue Date 60 metres 6.72 Lexington, Kentucky, United States 28 February 2004 100 metres 10.27 Kingston, Jamaica 21 July 2000 200 metres 20.33 Carson, California, United States 21 May 2006 400 metres 46.00 Walnut, California, United States 17 April 2005 - All information taken from IAAF profile.
References
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- ^ Williams, Gordon (2009-01-20). Sprinter takes it slow - Omar Brown coming back from injury layoff. The Jamaica Star. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
- ^ Campbell-Brown, Veronica (2009-10-07). Veronica Campbell Brown named Unesco Ambassador - IAAF Online Diaries. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
- ^ Shanghai Golden Grand Prix Results. ESPN (2009-09-20). Retrieved on 2009-10-07.
External links
- IAAF profile for Omar Brown
Commonwealth Champions in Men's 200 m 1930 – 1966: 220 yards • 1970 – present: 200 metres 1930: Stanley Engelhart (ENG) • 1934: Arthur Sweeney (ENG) • 1938: Cyril Holmes (ENG) • 1950: John Treloar (AUS) • 1954: Don Jowett (NZL) • 1958: Tom Robinson (BAH) • 1962: Seraphino Antao (KEN) • 1966: Stanley Allotey (GHA) • 1970 – 1974: Don Quarrie (JAM) • 1978: Allan Wells (SCO) • 1982: Mike McFarlane (ENG) and Allan Wells (SCO) • 1986: Atlee Mahorn (CAN) • 1990: Marcus Adam (ENG) • 1994: Frankie Fredericks (NAM) • 1998: Julian Golding (ENG) • 2002: Frankie Fredericks (NAM) • 2006: Omar Brown (JAM) • 2010: Leon Baptiste (ENG)
Categories:- 1982 births
- Living people
- Jamaican sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica
- Arkansas Razorbacks track and field athletes
- People from Trelawny Parish
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs
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