Colin Bradford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Colin Bradford

Jamaican sprinter

Date of Birth: 30-May-1955

Place of Birth: Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica

Profession: sprinter

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Colin Bradford

  • Colin Bradford (born 30 May 1955) is a former Jamaican track and field athlete who specialised in sprinting events.
  • He represented Jamaica at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980. Born in Saint Catherine, he gained his first honours at the 1974 CARIFTA Games, where in the under-20s section he claimed bronze medals over 100 metres and 200 metres.
  • He was selected to contest these events at the 1976 Summer Olympics – he reached the 200 m final, coming in seventh, while his teammate Don Quarrie took the gold medal.
  • Bradford also ran in the 4×400 metres relay and came fifth in the final alongside Quarrie, Leighton Priestley and Seymour Newman.
  • He represented Jamaica at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and secured the 200 m bronze medal.He competed over 400 metres individually and in the relay at the 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and took gold medals in both events.
  • Bradford was chosen for the 200 m as well as both the 100 and 400 m relays at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but was eliminated in the heats stages of all three events.
  • The following year he won the 100 m title at the 1981 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and formed part of the Americas 4×400 m relay team for the 1981 IAAF World Cup.
  • His final global competition was the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, where he ran in the heats of the 200 m and anchored a Jamaican team of George Walcott, Ray Stewart and Leroy Reid to seventh place in the 4×100 metres relay final.His personal bests were 10.15 seconds for 100 m, 20.66 over 200 m and a 400 m time of 45.94 seconds.

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