| Rajindra Campbell | |
| Nationality: | Jamaican |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Shot put |
| Birth Date: | 29 February 1996[1] |
| Birth Place: | Ocho Rios, Jamaica |
| Height: | 1.78/5'10 |
| Pb: | Shot put: 22.22m (Madrid, 2023) |
Rajindra Campbell (born 29 February 1996) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. In 2023, he became the Jamaican national champion and Jamaican national record holder in the shot put. In 2024, he won a bronze medal in Paris at the Olympic Games.
Campbell attended Ferncourt High School and Kingston College in his native Jamaica before attending Cloud County Community College in Kansas and then Missouri Southern State University.[2]
Campbell won the Jamaican national title in 2023 having improved his personal best to 21.31, in May 2023.[3] Campbell set a new Jamaican national shot put record when he threw 22.22 metres in Madrid, Spain in July 2023.[4] [5] He was selected to represent Jamaica at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023 where he qualified for the final but did not register a legal throw.[6] [7]
In February 2024, he competed for Jamaica at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow but did not register a legal throw.[8] [9]
In July 2024, he was officially selected for the Jamaican team at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[10] At the Games, he qualified for the final with his single legal throw in qualification of 21.05 metres.[11] He improved that in the final to 22.15 metres and won the bronze medal. American Joe Kovacs equalled Campbell's effort of 22.15 metres but was awarded silver for having the longest second-best effort. Campbell had two legal throws in the final, with a second-best throw of 20.00m.[12] [13]