Jamaica_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics

Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Jamaica competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The country's participation marked its seventeenth Summer Olympic appearance as an independent state, although it has previously competed in four other editions as a British colony, and as part of the West Indies Federation.

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Medalists

Further information: 2020 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2020 Summer Olympics medal winners
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Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

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Athletics

Main articles: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaican athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[2][3]

Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • OR - Olympic record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Track & road events
Men
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Women
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Mixed
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Field events
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Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaica entered one boxer into the Olympic tournament for the first time since 1996. With the cancellation of the 2021 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ricardo Brown finished fourth in the men's super heavyweight division to secure a place on the Jamaican team based on the IOC's Boxing Task Force Rankings.[4]

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Diving

Main articles: Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaica entered one diver into the Olympic competition by finishing in the top eighteen of the men's springboard at the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup in Tokyo, Japan.[5]

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Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Artistic

Jamaica entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. British-born Danusia Francis booked a spot in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing ninth out of the twenty gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.[6][7]

Two days prior to the competition Francis learned she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. She therefore withdrew from the balance beam, the vault and the floor exercise. She chose to continue to compete in the uneven bars with her knee bandaged, scoring the lowest of any competitor as the judges deducted 6.5 points for various infractions and gave her only a 0.5 difficulty score. However, her 9.033 execution score was the highest for any athlete on any apparatus.[8]

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Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

For the first time in history, Jamaica qualified one judoka for the women's middleweight category (70 kg) at the Games. Ebony Drysdale Daley accepted a continental berth from the Americas as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021.[9]

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Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jamaican swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[10][11]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. [2]
    "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  3. [3]
    "IAAF Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Jamaican boxer qualifies for Tokyo Olympics". Television Jamaica. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. [5]
    Levy, Leighton (6 May 2021). "Jamaican diver Knight-Wisdom qualifies for Olympics with top-12 finish at 2021 FINA Diving World Cup". SportsMax. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  6. [6]
    "Francis Qualifies to 2020 Olympic Games". UCLA. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019: Day 2 - as it happened". Olympic Channel. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  8. [8]
    Apstein, Stephanie (25 July 2021). "Jamaican Gymnast Danusia Francis Makes Olympic Dream Come True". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  9. [9]
    Messner, Nicolas (22 June 2021). "Tokyo 2020: Official Olympic Qualification List". International Judo Federation. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  10. [10]
    "FINA – Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Qualification". FINA. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  11. [11]
    "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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