Rasheed Dwyer

Rasheed Dwyer
Medal record

Men's Athletics
Representing Jamaica
World Championships
	2015 Beijing	4×100m relay

Rasheed Dwyer (born 29 January 1989) is a Jamaican athlete specializing in the sprinting events. His two biggest successes to date are winning the gold in 200 metres at the 2011 Summer Universiade and also winning the gold (200 metres) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He studied at the G.C. Foster College in Spanish Town.^[1]

Athletics Men's 200 Final - 27th Summer Universiade 2013 - Kazan (RUS) Dwyer takes second

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Jamaica
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd (h)^[2]	4×100m relay	39.62
2009	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Havana, Cuba	2nd	4x100 m relay	39.31
2010	NACAC U23 Championships	Miramar, Florida, United States	3rd	200m	20.64 (wind: +2.8 m/s) w
	NACAC U23 Championships	Miramar, Florida, United States	2nd	4x100m relay	39.36
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	2nd	200 m	20.49 (PB)
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	2nd	4x100 m relay	38.78
	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	9th (sf)	200 m	21.13
	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	2nd	4x100 m relay	38.79
2011	Universiade	Daegu, South Korea	1st	200 m	20.20 (PB)
2013	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	2nd	200 m	20.23
2014	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	1st (h)	4x200 m relay	1:20.15
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	1st	200 m	20.14
2015	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	4x200 m relay	1:20.97
	2015 Pan American Games	Toronto Canada	2nd	200 metres	19.90 (+0.3)^[3] Set Pan Am Games Record 19.80 (+2.0) in semis
	NACAC Championships	San Jose, Costa Rica	1st	200 m	20.12 +1.8
	World Championships	Beijing, China	1st	4×100 m relay	37.36

Personal bests

100 Metres – 10.10 (Kingston 2016)
200 Metres – 19.80 (Toronto 2015)

References

Rasheed Dwyer profile at IAAF

↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Rasheed-Dwyer/1367388029
↑ Competed only in the heat.
↑ http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/athletics/results-men-s-200m-1-01.htm

Commonwealth Games champions in men's 200 metres

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) 2014: Rasheed Dwyer (JAM)

Summer Universiade champions in men's 200 metres

1959: Livio Berruti (ITA)
1961: László Mihályfi (HUN)
1963–1965: Edvīns Ozoliņš (URS)
1967: Tommie Smith (USA)
1970: Martin Reynolds (GBR)
1973–1975: Pietro Mennea (ITA)
1977: Clancy Edwards (USA)
1979: Pietro Mennea (ITA)
1981: Yuriy Naumenko (URS)
1983: Innocent Egbunike (NGR)
1985: Leandro Peñalver (CUB)
1987: Wallace Spearmon, Sr. (USA)
1989: Robson da Silva (BRA)
1991: Jon Drummond (USA)
1993: Bryan Bridgewater (USA)
1995: Anthuan Maybank (USA)
1997: Gentry Bradley (USA)
1999: Coby Miller (USA)
2001: Marcin Urbaś (POL)
2003–2005: Leigh Julius (RSA)
2007: Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud (EGY)
2009: Ramil Guliyev (AZE)
2011: Rasheed Dwyer (JAM)
2013: Anaso Jobodwana (RSA)
2015: Hua Wilfried Koffi (CIV)

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