Athlete Profile

Nesta Carter

DOB — Octopber 11, 1985

Sport — Track and Field

Event — 100m, 4x100m

Personal Best — 9.78

Honours — A resourceful runner Carter had his best season in 2010 when he consistently lowered his personal best three times to 9.78 joining the sub-10 club. He won a gold medal as part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea and claimed his first individual world medal when he claimed silver in the 60m at the 2012 world Indoor Championships in Istanbul

Olympic Dossier — Carter led Jamaica’s relay team which won the gold medal in the 4x100m relay in a world record time

at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.