Jason Young | |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 100 metres, 200 metres |
Club: | Racers Track Club |
Coach: | Glen Mills |
Collegeteam: | UWI Mona |
Pb: | 100 metres: 10.06 (+1.0 m/s) (Luzern 2012) 200 metres: 19.86 (+1.5 m/s) (Luzern 2012) |
Birth Date: | 21 March 1991 |
Birth Place: | Jamaica |
Jason Young (born 21 March 1991) is a Jamaican sprinter, competing in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
Jason is a student at University of the West Indies, Mona and won a joint silver medal in the 200 m at the 2011 Summer Universiade.
Young attracted attention in July 2012 when he set a massive new personal best of 19.86 s in the 200 metres at the Spitzen Leichtathletik meeting in Lucerne, beating Warren Weir. Earlier in the evening he had set a new personal best of 10.06 s in the 100 metres.[1]