Tyrice Taylor

Tyrice Taylor (born 31 October 2001) is a Jamaican middle-distance runner. He won the Jamaican national title over 800 metres in 2025, and that year held the national record for the distance before becoming a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.^[1]

Tyrice Taylor

Personal information
Nationality	Jamaica
Born	(2001-10-31) 31 October 2001 (age 23)
Sport
Sport	Track and Field
Event	Middle-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	800 m: 1:43.74 (Freeport, 2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Jamaica NACAC Championships 2025 Freeport 800 m Carifta Games Junior (U20) 2019 George Town 800 meters

Early life

He attended The Enid Bennett High School in Saint Catherine Parish. In 2018 he won over 800 metres at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletic Championships.^[2] He won over 800m in the boys U20 race at the Digicel Grand Prix Final at GC Foster College in 2019.^[3] He won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2019 CARIFTA Games in Grand Cayman.^[4]

Career

Competing for Indian Hills Community College he won at the 2023 National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Outdoor Championships in New Mexico, defeating compatriot Kimar Farquharson over 800 metres in 1:46.93.^[5]

Competing for the University of Arkansas at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas in February 2025 he ran a personal best 1:46.62 to win in the men’s 800m.^[6] In doing so, he was only 0.01 seconds outside the Jamaican indoor national record set in 2023 by Tarees Rhoden.^[7]

He finished second in the men’s 800m elite invitational race at the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, California in April 2023, running a new personal best time of 1:45.81 to move into the top-ten Jamaican all-time list for the event.^[8]

He qualified for the final of the men’s 800m at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in a personal best 1:45.23 in June 2025.^[9] In the final he placed eighth in a time of 1:47.44.^[10] Later that month, he won the 800 metres final of the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston, Jamaica in a time of 1:45.26.^[11] He ran 1:46.46 to finish second behind Canada’s Abdullahi Hassan at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet, on 12 July in Memphis, Tennessee.^[12]

Taylor was named in the Jamaican squad for the 2025 NACAC Championships in Nassau, The Bahamas, winning the bronze medal in the 800 metres in a new personal best time of 1:43.74, which broke the Jamaican national record in the event, surpassing the previous mark held by Navasky Anderson.^[13][14][15] He was a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres alongside Anderson, as for the first time Jamaica had two semi-finalists in the event at the Championships, with Anderson then regaining the Jamaican national record in the semi-final.^[16][17][18]