Edino Steele

Edino Steele (born 6 January 1987) is a Jamaican sprinter. He is known for winning a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships; and for his controversial failed appearance on the 2012 Jamaican Olympics 4 x 400 team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He competed in the 4x400 metres relay event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, winning a silver medal.

World junior circuit

He represented Jamaica at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics and placed 5th after coming a close 3rd in his Semi-Final, but left with a certainty that this was the career he wanted for the rest of his life. That same year he went back to the drawing board for the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships and clocked 46.29 to take the bronze behind Allodin Fothergill (46.17) and the winner Renny Quow (46.14). And also claiming gold for Jamaica in the 4 x 400 relay over Trinidad & Barbados.

Professional athletic career

After his success with the Jamaican team and his mentor, Coach Glen Mills, Steele decided in June 2007 to become a Professional Track Athlete for Jamaica. He quickly relocated to the island and joined the revered Racers Track Club under the guidance of Mills & Bertland Cameron. The following year he made Jamaica's National Team for the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Representing in the 4 x 400 metres relay he and teammates Michael Blackwood, Adrian Findlay and DeWayne Barrett took home the silver medal with a time of 3:07.69.

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IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships were inaugurated as the World Indoor Games in 1985 in Paris, France and were subsequently renamed in 1987 as they are known today.

History

They have been held every two years except for when they were held in consecutive years 2003 and 2004 to facilitate the need for them to be held in alternate years to the main IAAF World Championships (outdoors) in the future.

Championships

Events

The events held have remained more or less the same since they originated with the main alterations coming in the earlier years.

The 4 x 400 m relay race for both men and women was added to the full schedule in 1991 as was the women's triple jump, but only as an exhibition event before gaining full status at the following championships.

1993 saw the last of the racewalking events included and a 1600 m medley relay was tried but dropped for future games. This same year a men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon were successfully introduced as non-championship events and have remained in place since.

Racers Track Club

Racers Track Club is a sprint training group based in Kingston, Jamaica established by Glen Mills with the stated aim of producing a greater number of world champions than any other track club. The club is known for training some of the world's best sprinters, world champions currently training with the group include Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake.

Current athletes

Athletes currently training with Racers Track Club include:

Men

Kemar Bailey-Cole

Yohan Blake

Usain Bolt

Daniel Bailey

Michael Frater

Mario Forsythe

Zharnel Hughes

Jevaughn Minzie

Kimmari Roach

Warren Weir

Delano Williams

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Grace Jackson

Grace Jackson (born 14 June 1961 in St. Ann, Jamaica, West Indies Federation ) is a retired Jamaican athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres.

Jackson reached the 100 and 200 m finals in the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympic Games and the 200 m final in Barcelona in 1992.

Her breakthrough performance was at the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea. She won a silver medal over 200 m behind Florence Griffith-Joyner, defeating then 200 m World Champion Silke Moller, Heike Drechsler and team mate Merlene Ottey. She also won a bronze medal at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

A detailed biography was published.

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