Rajindra Campbell (born 29 February 1996) is a Jamaican

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athlete. In 2023, he became the Jamaican national champion and Jamaican national record holder in the

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. In 2024, he won a bronze medal in

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at the

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Early life

Campbell attended Ferncourt High School and Kingston College in his native Jamaica before attending Cloud County Community College in Kansas and then

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Career

Campbell won the Jamaican national title in 2023 having improved his personal best to 21.31, in May 2023. Campbell set a new Jamaican national shot put record when he threw 22.22 metres in

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, Spain in July 2023. He was selected to represent Jamaica at the

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in August 2023 where he qualified for the final but did not register a legal throw. In February 2024, he competed for Jamaica at the

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but did not register a legal throw. In July 2024, he was officially selected for the Jamaican team at the

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. At the Games, he qualified for the final with his single legal throw in qualification of 21.05 metres. He improved that in the final to 22.15 metres and won the bronze medal. American

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equalled Campbell's effort of 22.15 metres but was awarded silver for having the longest second-best effort. Campbell had two legal throws in the final, with a second-best throw of 20.00m. In September 2024 in

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, he extended the Jamaican national record for the shot put to 22.31 metres. He was named in the Jamaican team for the

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in March 2025. In May 2025 he finished second at the

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, with a throw of 21.95 metres. He finished third at the Diamond League event at the

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in Rome on 6 June 2025.

References

1996 births Living people Jamaican male shot putters 21st-century Jamaican sportsmen Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica Missouri Southern Lions men's track and field athletes People educated at Kingston College (Jamaica) Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Jamaica Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic athletes for Jamaica Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Pan American Games {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub