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Rohan Watson
Jamaican athlete From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rohan Watson (born 29 April 2002) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In July 2023, he became Jamaican national champion over 100 metres.[1]
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Watson is a member of the MVP Club in Jamaica,[2][3] where he is a training partner of Shericka Jackson.[4] Watson won the Jamaican national 100m title at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on 7 July 2023, running 9.91 seconds.[5] The victory was considered an upset, with Oblique Seville and Ackeem Blake entering the competition as the favourites.[6] Earlier in the week, Watson had dipped below the 10-second barrier for the first time, running 9.98s in the heats.[7]
He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, where he reached the semi-finals of the 100m.[8][9][10]
In January 2025, he set a 60 metres personal best of 6.61 seconds at the Central Hurdles, Relays & Field Events Meet at the GC Foster College in St. Catherine. The was recorded into a -2.1m/s headwind.[11] He set a new personal best of 6.60 for the 60 metres at the Gibson McCook Relays on February 22, 2025 at the National Stadium in Kingston. On 1 March 2025, he won the 60 metres final at the Jamaican World Athletics Indoor Championships qualifier at GC Foster College with a new personal best 6.50 seconds, just ahead of Nishion Ebanks.[12] He was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he finished in fifth place in the final of the 60 metres race with a time of 6.59 seconds.[13][14] He finished ninth in the 100 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025.[15] He finished sixth in the 100 metres at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025, in a new seasons best time of 10.18 seconds.[16]
He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China in the Men's 4 × 100 metres relay in May 2025.[17][18]
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