Kemar Bailey-Cole (born 10 January 1992) is a retired

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athlete from

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, who mainly competed in the

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. He is the

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champion.

Career

He qualified for the

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running a personal best 10.00 sec at the Jamaican Olympic trials over 100 m coming 5th earning him a spot on the 4 × 100 relay for Jamaica at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He later improved his time to 9.97 in Brussels on 7 September 2012. He is coached by Glen Mills who also coaches

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and

Yohan Blake Yohan Blake (born 26 December 1989) is a Jamaican sprinter specialising in the 100 metres, 100-metre and 200 metres, 200-metre sprint races. He won gold at the 100 m at the 2011 World Athletics Championships as the youngest 100 m world champion ...

. In 2013 he once again improved his 100 m personal best to 9.96 seconds. In the 100 m final of the 2013 Jamaican National Championships, Bailey-Cole finished the race in 9.98 seconds, second only to Usain Bolt's 9.94, despite a 1.5 m/s headwind, where he earned a qualification to the

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in Moscow. He set a personal best in the semi-final of the

of 9.93 seconds where he came second to teammate Nickel Ashmeade, however he could only manage 4th in the final, just outside the medal positions. At the

Bailey-Cole ran the

final in 10.00 seconds to take the gold medal, beating England's Adam Gemili who took silver, and fellow countryman Nickel Ashmeade who took bronze. He was also part of the Jamaican team who won the relay in a Games record. He was a part of the Jamaican relay team which won the gold medal at the

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, running only in the heats.

Personal bests

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1992 births Living people Jamaican male sprinters Olympic athletes for Jamaica Olympic gold medalists for Jamaica Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes from Saint Catherine Parish Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics World Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Jamaican sportsmen Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub