See also: Powell
Asafa Powell (born the November 11th 1982 with St Catherine in Jamaica) is a athlete jamaïcain, specialist in the 100 meters and 200 meters.
Author of a beginning of the season 2005 impressive, it carries out 9" 84 the May 7th with Kingston then with Eugene the June 4th and 9" 85 the June 9th with Ostrava on a softened track.
Tuesday June 14th, it beats the world records hitherto property of Tim Montgomery (of which the performance was retroactively cancelled in December 2005 due to doping) while running the 100 meters in 9" 77 using a favorable wind of 1,6 m/s. It carries out this performance during the meeting of Athens which counts for the Super Grand Prix on a very fast considered track. It is in this same stage, also site of the Olympic Games of 2004 (where Powell finishes 5th), that Maurice Greene had established on June 1st 1999 its own world records which will remain thus its property during 6 years.
A few weeks only after his world records, the athlete is wounded with the supply mains and is thus drawn aside from the championships of the world of Helsinki 2005. Since, Asafa flies over its discipline.
Jamaïcain carries out its return to the competition in March 2006 while gaining, the 21, the finale of the 100 meters of the 18th Plays of the the Commonwealth to Melbourne in a stopwatch of 10" 03.
June 11th, 2006, with Gateshead, Asafa Powell equalizes her own world records in 9" 769 (9" 77) thanks to a favorable wind of 1,5 m/s. The August 18th 2006, with the Weltklasse Zurich, it equalizes its world records in 9" again; 762, rounded with 9" 77 according to the rules of IAAF, with a favorable wind of 1,0 m/s.
It finishes unconquered at the time of the meetings of the Golden League 2006. This performance, like its two equalized world records, also enables him to be appointed athlete of the year 2006 by the IAAF. In 2007, at the time of the Championnats of the world of athletics has Osaka, it loses its duel very awaited face has Tyson Gay: after having carried out 85 m, it releases foot and finishes 3rd in 9" 96.
At the time of the international meeting of Rieti (Italy), the September 9th 2007, in semi-final, it erases its own world records while running the 100 m in 9" 74, with a fast reaction time (0" 137), a favorable wind of 1,7 m/s but on a track however considered slow. It confirms finally by signing 9" 78 by null wind (2nd better stopwatch of the year).
See too
Physical characteristics
- Size: 188 cm
- Weight: 87 kg
Progression
100 m
Prize list
60m
100m
200m
Others
- Victorious of the League Golden delicious 2006
- Athlete of the year 2006
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