WeJamaicans.com » asafa powel http://www.wejamaicans.com Online Community for Jamaicans at Home and Abroad! Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 World Championship http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/08/27/jamaica-world-championship/ http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/08/27/jamaica-world-championship/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:47:46 +0000 admin.WJ http://www.wejamaicans.com/jamaica/123 By Kadian Grant Ten Jamaican athletes will be representing us as, the nine days of intense athletics competition get going in Japan’s water capital, Osaka.

World 100-metre record-holder Asafa Powell will be seeking to win his first world gold medal, but also to become the first Jamaican sprinter to win in the 22-year history of the championships first staged 1983 in Helsinki.

Only Raymond Stewart (10.08secs) in 1987 and Powell’s MVP teammate Michael Frater (10.05secs) in 2005, have ever made it to the

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