Patrick Jarrett

Education

Afterwards, he attended Saint John"s University and starred on the track team from 1991 until he dropped out in 1993, academically ineligible.

Career

He represented Jamaica at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He received a doping ban for two years in 2001, after testing positive for stanozolol at the Jamaican Championships. Jarrett originally started out running for Farmingdale High School in Long Island, New York where he was ranked #1 in the 100 m in New York state from 1990-1991.

After a modest but short career at Saint John"s, he moved to New York Technical to continue running.

He was Jamaica"s only representative in the 100 m at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and he reached the quarter-finals stage but was knocked out as he finished fifth in his race. Regardless, his time of 10.22 seconds was a new personal best.

Along with Garth Robinson, Christopher Williams and Ray Stewart, he finished fifth (upgraded to fourth after Nigeria was disqualifed) in the heats of the 4×100 metres relay in his second competition of the championships. He improved his personal best to 10.14 seconds at the National Championships in 2000, and his third place behind Williams and Lindel Frater finish guaranteed him a place in the Jamaican Olympic team

He reached the second round of the 100 m, along with his compatriots, at the 2000 Sydney Olympics but he finished last in his race, pulling up before the finish line.

He was not selected for the relay at the Olympics and the Jamaican team of Frater, Dwight Thomas, Williams and Llewellyn Bredwood set a national record in the final. At the 2001 Penn Relays Jarrett helped the Jamaican team including Donovan Powell, Byron Logan and Chris Williams to third place with a time of 38.68 seconds. He also improved his 100 m best to 10.12 seconds, ahead of Mark Lewis-Francis.

He finished second at the Jamaican National Championships that year but his doping test from the competition was positive for the banned steroid stanozolol.

He contested the test but the IAAF upheld the decision and he was banned from athletics for a period of two years. He returned from the ban in 2003 and his next major appearance came at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

He did not earn an individual spot, but was chosen for the relay and a team comprising Dwight Thomas, Jarrett, Winston Smith and Michael Frater recorded a time of 38.71 seconds for fourth in the heats (which was not enough to make the final). In 2005 he was fifth at both the IAAF Meeting Zagreb and the Tsiklitiria meeting in Athens (where he ran a season"s best of 1015 seconds).

All information taken from IAAF profile.

Achievements

• He was also the 1999 Jamaican 100 m champion and a quarter-finalist at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. He won the 100 m bronze at the 1999 CAC Championships and helped the Jamaican relay team to the bronze at the 1999 Pan American Games. He came to prominence in 1999 when he won the bronze medal in the 100 m at the 1999 CAC Championships, finishing behind Obadele Thompson and Kim Collins. He was selected for the 4×100 metres relay team at the 1999 Pan American Games and the squad won the bronze in at time of 38.82 seconds. He won the 100 m at the Jamaican Championships that year, running a time of 10.30 seconds.