Donald Thomas (athlete)
Donald Thomas celebrating in Osaka 2007
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Nationality | Bahamian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Freeport, Bahamas |
1 July 1984 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | High jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Auburn Tigers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Donald Thomas (born 1 July 1984) is a Bahamian high jumper from Freeport, Bahamas.
Biography
Thomas took up the sport in early 2006, having previously played basketball at Lindenwood University.[1] He cleared 2.22 metres in his first meet, and just months later he placed second at the 2006 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships with a height of 7-01.75 and finished fourth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a 2.23 m jump.
In the 2007 indoor season he cleared 2.30 metres for the first time, and eventually jumped 2.33 metres in March in Fayetteville, Arkansas.[2] In July 2007 he cleared 2.35 metres on the world record track in Salamanca, Spain. The result was a new personal best and the world season's best at the time.[1][3] He then won the World Championships in Osaka, again with a 2.35 jump. He also won gold at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final.[4] That year, he also won the IAAF Newcomer of the Year, and the Bahamas Amateur Athletic Association Athlete of the Year.[5]
The Olympic competition in 2008 however, turned out a major disappointment for Thomas, who only made 2.20 in the qualifying round and finished 21st overall.[6]
Competition record
References
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External links
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Achievements | ||
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Preceded by | Men's High Jump Best Year Performance alongside Stefan Holm, Yaroslav Rybakov and Kyriacos Ioannou 2007 |
Succeeded by Andrey Silnov |
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- 1984 births
- Living people
- Bahamian high jumpers
- Auburn Tigers track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes of the Bahamas
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for the Bahamas
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the Bahamas
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the Bahamas
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Bahamas
- Pan American Games competitors for the Bahamas
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Commonwealth Games competitors for the Bahamas
- Lindenwood Lions basketball players
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for the Bahamas
- People from Freeport, Bahamas