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Justyn Warner, (born June 28, 1987) is a Canadian track athlete specializing in the
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. He is the former Canadian Junior record holder at that distance with a time of 10.26. He anchored the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team to a third-place finish at the
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, but they were later disqualified for a teammate stepping out his lane. In 2013 he anchored Canada to a bronze in the same event at the
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. He was coached by Kevin Tyler.


Career

Warner is a graduate of Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute in
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. He was a double-sport athlete playing football and running track, where he was an outstanding sprint athlete. In 2005, his senior year he won four provincial O.F.S.A.A titles on the track: 100m, 200m, 4 × 100 m, and 4 × 400 m. On July 30, 2005, he finished second in the
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at the 2005 Pan Am Junior Games, held in Windsor, Ontario, in a time of 10.26, a new Canadian Junior record. A year later on August 16, 2006, he claimed the silver medal in the 100 m at the
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, held in
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, China, in a time of 10.39. Warner received a full scholarship to
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where he competed in the
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as a Horned Frog under Darryl Anderson. He was a three-time All-American. He graduated TCU in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology. In 2012, Warner qualified in the 100m for the
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by winning his first Canadian championship in 10.15s. That also qualified him to be a member of the 4 × 100 m relay team. At the Olympic Games, Warner finished 13th overall running a personal best of 10.09s twice in both the heat and the semi-final. Next up was the 4 × 100 m relay with
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, Oluseyi Smith,
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& Warner anchoring. In the final, the Canadian relay team arrived in third place and initially believed they had won bronze but they were disqualified when officials judged that Connaughton had stepped on the lane line just before passing the baton. The relay team from
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were awarded the bronze. In August 2013 Warner anchored his Canadian teammates
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, Aaron Brown and Dontae Richards-Kwok to a bronze in the same men's sprint relay event at the
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in Moscow, after Great Britain was disqualified for a baton exchange infraction.


Personal life

Warner trains in Phoenix, Arizona. His hometown is
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, Ontario, Canada. Warner has a younger brother Ian who graduated from
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. His younger brother finished right behind him at the 2012 Canadian Olympic Trials with a time of 10.20. Warner has a son, Kaedence, with Canadian hurdler Nikkita Holder.


Statistics


Personal bests


References


External links


Official Website
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Profile at Athletics Canada
{{DEFAULTSORT:Warner, Justyn 1987 births Living people Track and field athletes from Toronto Black Canadian sportsmen Black Canadian track and field athletes TCU Horned Frogs men's track and field athletes Olympic track and field athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canadian male sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Canada World Athletics Championships medalists 21st-century Canadian sportsmen