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 Winthrop Graham

DATE OF BIRTH

Wednesday, 17th November 1965

PLACE OF BIRTH

St. Elizabeth

EVENT(S):

400m Hurdles, 4x400m

CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCES:

Olympics: 1988 silver 4x400m, 1992 silver 400m Hurdles. Worlds: 1991 silver 400m Hurdles, bronze 4x400m, 1993 bronze 400m Hurdles.

During 1992, Winthrop Graham and Samuel Matete (Zambia) had waged an intriguing battle for supremacy in the 400m hurdles, although they had both been clearly overshadowed by Kevin Young (USA) who had won the Olympic gold medal in world record time ahead of Graham in second place. Young continued this superiority over his rivals into the following season, eventually building a winning streak of 25, before Matete narrowly defeated him at London on 23 July. Young's favouritism for the World Championships at Stuttgart took another jolt in his final two races before the biggest meet of the year. In the first, at Zurich on 4 August, Graham won from Matete and Young in a new Jamaican record and career best time of 47.60sec. Three days later at Monaco, Matete defeated Young again, with Graham third. This clearly made the three athletes the favourites to share the medals at Stuttgart, where Graham easily won his first round heat on 16 August. The expectation for an exciting final increased when Graham, Matete and Young were the respective winners of the three semi-finals the following day. In the final, Young produced the fastest time of the year to win the gold medal, while Graham only narrowly lost the battle for silver with Matete, clocking his second fastest time ever of 47.62sec. Although Graham was still competitive in the following years, he never again regained the level he had enjoyed in 1992 and 1993. He was the third fastest performer in 1994 with his time of 48.05sec recorded at Linz on 4 July, but in the following year's World Championships in Gothenburg, he was disqualified due to a trailing leg violation in his semi-final. His last Olympic appearance at Atlanta in 1996 was not a happy one, as he was eliminated during the first round heats. (Ron Casey) 

Winthrop Graham Winning Silver at the Barcelona Olympics

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New York Diamond Winners' Circle

Steve Mullings

Official Results - Men - 100 Metres - Race 1 - Wind : -3.4 m/s

Pos	Athlete	Nat	Mark	Pts
1	Steve Mullings	JAM	10.26	4
2	Tyson Gay	USA	10.26	2
3	Keston Bledman	TRI	10.33	1
4	Nickel Ashmeade	JAM	10.36
5	Mike Rodgers	USA	10.38
6	Trell Kimmons	USA	10.51
	Monzavous Edwards	USA	DQ
	Travis Padgett	USA	DQ
	Richard Thompson	TRI	DQ

Kenia Sinclair

Official Results - Women - 1500 Metres

Pos	Athlete	Nat	Mark	Pts
1	Kenia Sinclair	JAM	4:08.06	4
2	Morgan Uceny	USA	4:08.42	2
3	Kalkidan Gezahegne	ETH	4:08.46	1
4	Gelete Burka	ETH	4:09.84
5	Anna Pierce	USA	4:10.38
6	Treniere Clement Moser	USA	4:10.40
7	Malindi Elmore	CAN	4:10.48
8	Brianna Felnagle	USA	4:11.85
9	Sally Kipyego	KEN	4:11.89
10	Molly Huddle	USA	4:12.03
11	Lidia Chojecka	POL	4:13.00
12	Shannon Rowbury	USA	4:13.11
13	Marina Muncan	SRB	4:17.57
	Karen Shinkins	IRL	DNF

Heat Wave in New York Diamond League

The temperature will definitely rise this Saturday inside the ICAHN Stadium, New York, set off by some heated sprint battles at the Adidas Grand Prix, the 6th Diamond League contest of the season.

Women's 200m

It is the Battle of the 100m Specialists and the 200m Specialist

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Men's 100m

Mullings

 The battle of the Fast and Furious

Carter

Gay

"Bigga" Time for Thomas in Oslo - National Record 13:15s

Dwight "Bigga" Thomas

Congratulations to Dwight Thomas on breaking his own 110m Hurdles National Record of 13:16s, lowering it to 13:15s.  He also improved his season's best of 13:18s and judging from his execution of the race it seems he could have ran a faster time.  The season is still young and Thomas has enough time to get his technique together and  lower the record even further before the end of the season.

It would be a real distinction for Thomas' career if he can take Jamaica's sprint hurdling into the sub 13 seconds realm.  

Official Results - Men - 110 Metres Hurdles - Wind : +0.1 m/s

Pos	Athlete	Nat	Mark	Pts
1	Aries Merritt	USA	13.12	4
2	Dwight Thomas	JAM	13.15	2
3	Joel Brown	USA	13.20	1
4	Andrew Turner	GBR	13.32
5	Tyrone Akins	USA	13.34
6	Ryan Wilson	USA	13.36
7	Dominic Berger	USA	13.39
8	Jason Richardson	USA	13.78

Oslo Diamond Winners' Circle

Usain Bolt

Official Results - Men - 200 Metres - Wind : +0.7 m/s

Pos	Athlete	Nat	Mark	Pts
1	Usain Bolt	JAM	19.86	4
2	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	NOR	20.43	2
3	Mario Forsythe	JAM	20.49	1
4	Kim Collins	SKN	20.56
5	Christian Malcolm	GBR	20.57
6	Sebastian Ernst	GER	20.70
7	Patrick van Luijk	NED	20.73
8	Brian Dzingai	ZIM	20.88

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