Julien Dunkley (born 20 December 1975) is a retired
Jamaica
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n
track and field
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athlete who specialised in
sprint events.
He first began competing for Jamaica internationally in 2001. At the
he won the
silver medal
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over the
100 metres
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in a time of 10.35 seconds behind
Kim Collins
Kim Collins (born 5 April 1976) is a former Saint Kitts and Nevis, Kittitian track and field sprint (running), sprinter. In 2003, he became the World Championships in Athletics, World Champion in the 100 metres. He represented his country at the ...
. He was selected to compete at the
2001 World Championships in Athletics
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, forming part of the men's relay team. However, the team including
Dwight Thomas
Dwight Thomas O.D (born 23 September 1980) is a Jamaican sprinter, mainly competing in the 100 metres event and more recently the 110 m hurdles.
Career
He won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 1998 at the 100 m and ...
,
Christopher Williams and
Ricardo Williams finished last in their heat.
Dunkley began studying at
East Carolina University
East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of universities in North Carolina by enrollment, fourth largest university in North Carolina and the only one in the state with s ...
in the
United States
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. At the age of 28 he won the
60 metres dash at the
NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship
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in 2003, beating
Pierre Browne
Pierre Browne (born January 14, 1980) is a Canadian sprinter of Barbadian descent. He represented Canada for the 100 and the 200 meters dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.[ECU Pirates
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men's track and field team. However, he was stripped of his title soon after as he was ruled ineligible as a
student-athlete
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(although the specific reason for the disqualification was not disclosed).
He turned professional that year and began training with sprint coach
Trevor Graham
Trevor Graham (born 20 August 1963) is a Jamaican-born American former sprinter and athletics coach. Following the BALCO scandal, the US Olympic Committee barred him indefinitely from all its training sites.
Athletics career
Graham was ...
, who also trained
Justin Gatlin
Justin Alexander Gatlin (born February 10, 1982) is a retired American sprinter who competed in the 60 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters. He is the 2004 Olympic Champion in the 100 meters, the 2005 and 2017 World Champion in the 100 meters, the ...
,
Shawn Crawford
Shawn Crawford (born January 14, 1978) is a retired American sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. In the 200 meter sprint, Crawford won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2008 Summer O ...
and
Duane Ross
Randolph Duane Ross (born December 5, 1972) is an American collegiate track and field coach, and former athlete, specializing in the 110 meters hurdles. He is currently the Director of Track and Field programs for the University of Tennessee and ...
among others. He improved his 100 m personal best to 10.09 seconds in
La Chaux-de-Fonds
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that August.
[Dunkley, Julien]
IAAF
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. Retrieved on 2010-09-13. Later that month he ran at the
2003 World Championships in Athletics
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in
Paris
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, and aided the Jamaican team into the final. He was replaced by
Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell (born 23 November 1982) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008 with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consistently ...
for the final race but the team did not finish the race.
After low-key 2006 and 2007 seasons, he re-emerged in 2008 with a new personal best of 10.07 seconds in
Provo, Utah
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.
[ At the 2008 ]Jamaican Athletics Championships
The Jamaican Athletics Championships is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Jamaica.[2008 Summer Olympic
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relay team, what would have been his first Olympic competition. However, his test from the championships came back positive for the anabolic steroid
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Boldenone
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thus he was dropped from the squad and received a two-year ban from the sport for the doping violation.[Kessel, Anna (2009-07-24)]
IAAF confirms five Jamaican athletes have tested positive for drugs
''The Guardian
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''. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.
See also
*List of doping cases in athletics
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References
External links
*
Jamaica Athletics profile
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1975 births
Living people
Doping cases in athletics
Jamaican male sprinters
East Carolina Pirates men's track and field athletes
Jamaican sportspeople in doping cases
Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games