Yohan Blake (born December 26, 1989), is Jamaica's fast runner from the 100m and 200m race. He won gold in the 100m at the 2011 World Championships as the youngest world champion of 100m, and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics in London in the 100m and 200m race for the Jamaican team.
Blake is the second fastest man ever to be in both 100 m and 200 m. Together with Tyson Gay, he is the second fastest man along with ever more than 100 m with a personal best of 9.69 seconds, behind just Usain Bolt. Personal best for 200 m (19.26 sec) is the second fastest time after Bolt. He holds the junior Jamaican national record for 100 meters, and was formerly the youngest runner who broke the 10 second barrier (at 19 years, 196 days).
He was trained by Glen Mills and his training partners were Usain Bolt and Daniel Bailey.
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Blake attended St. Jago High School in Spanish Town where his first sporting love was cricket. Blake was a quick bowler, and it was only after the Headmaster saw how quickly he ran into the goal he was urging to try to run fast.
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Careers
Junior
Blake set the fastest time with a junior Jamaican sprinter over 100 m with 10.11 seconds. The record was set at CARIFTA Games 2007 held in the Turks and Caicos Islands where he also led his team to gold in the 4 Ã- 100 meters relay. On this occasion, he was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athletes of CARIFTA Games 2007.
In 2008 when Usain Bolt was asked in an interview whether a runner could challenge him, Bolt named his Blake training partner, saying "Watch out for Yohan Blake, working like a beast, he's there with me step by step in training. "The nickname" Beast "stalled.
Blake won the 100m "B" race at the Reebok Grand Prix 2009. His exploits at Golden Gala in July represented a significant increase. He established himself as a serious contender at the senior level: he finished third behind Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell and improved his top quality by running 10 seconds from 9.96 seconds, becoming the youngest athlete ever to do so. He increased to 9.93 seconds soon after, taking third place behind training partner Bolt and Daniel Bailey at the Areva Meeting.
Drug ban
Prior to the 2009 World Championships, Blake (along with Marvin Anderson and Sheri-Ann Brooks) tested positive for a 4-methyl-2-hexanamine stimulant. A disciplinary panel hosted by the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) freed him from a doping offense on the grounds that the drug is not on the banned list of the World Anti-Doping Agency. However, JADCO appealed against their own panel decision, stating that athletes should be disciplined because the drug was similar in structure to the tuaminoheptane prohibited substance. When the panel will solve the problem after the World Championships, the Jamaican Amateur Athlete Association takes precautionary withdrawal of Blake from the relay race. The appellate court ruled that the ban would be appropriate, and Blake and three other runners each received a three-month ban from the competition.
World Championships
At the 2011 World Championships, Blake comfortably reached the final. After disqualifying compatriot Usain Bolt, Blake won the Gold Medal in 9.92 seconds. At the age of 21, 245 days, Blake also became the youngest world champion 100 meters, surpassing Carl Lewis, who won this tournament at the 1983 World Championships at the age of 22, 38 days. Together with Bolt and other Jamaican colleagues in Daegu, Blake won the 4 Æ' 100m relay final and broke the world record (set by the Jamaican team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008) with a time of 37.04 seconds.
At the IAAF Diamond League 2011 meeting in Zurich, Blake beat Asafa Powell in the 100m with a personal best time of 9.82 seconds. The following week in Brussels, Blake set the 2011 world time in 200 m with the best personal time of 19.26 seconds, the second fastest time of all time of the event with an increase of over half a second (0.52 seconds). ) from its first set of 19.78 sets at Monaco in 2010.
2012
Blake started the 2012 season very strongly, registering the first sub-10-second time of the season (9.90 seconds) at UTech Classic in April. He went on to register a 9.84 second run on the Cayman Invitational before the Jamaican Olympic trials, where he beat Usain Bolt over 100 meters in 9.75 seconds. He also won 200 yards with a time of 19.80 seconds ahead of Bolt in 19.83 seconds.
London 2012 Olympics is the first Olympics that Blake followed. It comes as a serious threat to the 100m Bolt title. In the 100m final he put the second in Bolt in 9.75 seconds. He also followed Bolt home in the 200m final where he won a silver medal in 19.44 seconds, the fastest time that did not win in history.
In the final 4ÃÆ' â € "100 m, Blake ran third leg when Jamaica won gold, setting a new world record time of 36.84 seconds.
On August 23, 2012, at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Blake ran 100 meters in 9.69 seconds, tying it with Tyson Gay as the second fastest man in history, behind Bolt.
2013
Blake suffered a hamstring injury in April 2013. After running 20.72 seconds over 200 m in Jamaica Nationals on June 8, thus failing to qualify for the 200m event at the 2013 World Championships of Moscow, Blake pulled out of the 100m event of the World Championships, at where he has an automatic entry as a surviving world champion.
2014
Blake tries to compete again in 2014, but occupies the 6th position in the 200m Lausanne Diamond League, with a time of 20.48 seconds. He then suffered another hamstring injury and fell on the 40-meter mark during the Glasgow Diamond League 100m race shortly after, ending his season.
2015
Blake decided he was ready to race again in 2015 after recovering from injury in 2013 and 2014. He failed to advance from the Jamaican Open semi-national championship at 100 meters, placing the ninth with a time of 10.36 seconds, with the top 8. progress to the final. He did not participate in the 200m experiment after that.
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Blake finished fourth at 100m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with 9.93 seconds. He failed to reach the final from 200m, finishing sixth in the semi-finals. However, Blake won his second Olympic gold medal in the 4ÃÆ'â € "100m relay.
Personal bests
- All information retrieved from the IAAF profile
Achievements
- National Junior Championships: 2006 (1st, 100m & amp; 200m)
Other interests
Away from athletics, Blake continues to be an enterprising cricketer, having once had ambitions to play in the West Indies. Playing for Kingston Cricket Club in off-season athletics and specializing as a bowler, Blake has taken four wickets for ten games.
On August 16, 2012, Blake rang the bell at Lord's Cricket Ground, London to mark the start of the third Investec test match between England and South Africa. He was the first non-professional cricketer to do this.
Blake is also a fan of the Royal Challengers IPL Bangalore (RCB) team and has expressed a desire to play for them as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Like compatriot Usain Bolt, Blake is a Manchester United supporter.
Blake also attended the Formula One Grand Prix in 2014.
References
External links
- Yohan Blake's profile at IAAF
- Official website
- Jamaican Flavor - Yohan Blake features speed, talent at Penn Relays SI.com, May 1, 2007
- Do you know Yohan Blake Windies Sports, March 29, 2008
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