Davian Clarke

Davian Clarke
Personal information
Born	30 April 1976; Spanish Town, Jamaica
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Jamaica
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Commonwealth Games
Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games
CAC Championships
World Junior Championships
CARIFTA Games ; Junior (U20)
CARIFTA Games ; Youth (U17)

Davian Clarke (born 30 April 1976) is a Jamaican former athlete, who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in Spanish Town, St. Catherine and went to St. Catherine Primary & Kingston College HS won the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1996 Olympics,^[1] and many relay medals followed, before he won his first individual medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Davian Clarke is also a graduate of University of Miami Patti & Allan Herbert Business School with Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Jamaica
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:06.58
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	19th (qf)	200 m	21.51 (wind: +0.6 m/s)
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.12
1996	Summer Olympics	Atlanta, Georgia	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.42
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:56.75
1998	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	4th	400 m	45.31
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.26
	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.03 CR
1999	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	400 m	45.49
	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.82
	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Canada	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:57.97
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.34^[2]
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, UK	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.21
	World Championships	Paris, France	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.60
	Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, DR	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.81
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	400 m	45.92
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:05.21
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	2:58.07
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	4th	400 m	45.93
2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.94

Personal bests

200 metres – 20.72 s (1999)
400 metres – 44.83 s (2004)

References

^ olympics.com https://olympics.com/en/athletes/davian-clarke. Retrieved 4 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ The Jamaica 4 × 400 team won originally the bronze medal, but the USA 4 × 400 team, which originally finished first in 4 × 400 m relay, was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

External links

Davian Clarke at World Athletics
Davian Clarke at Olympedia
Davian Clarke at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Bio at U. Miami Sports Hall of Fame

[1] olympics.com https://olympics.com/en/athletes/davian-clarke. Retrieved 4 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[Pettigrew-2] The Jamaica 4 × 400 team won originally the bronze medal, but the USA 4 × 400 team, which originally finished first in 4 × 400 m relay, was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

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