Brathwaite is Barbados first World champion
When 17-year-old Shane Brathwaite completed the Boys Octathlon here in Ostrava with a new personal best record of 6261 points he became not only Barbados’ first World Youth champion but his country’s first ever athletics gold medal winner in a global competition at any level.
The Caribbean island’s best result at a senior outdoor global competition was sprinter Obadele Thompson’s bronze medal winning performance in Sydney 2000 Olympic Games where he clocked 10.04 to finish third in the men’s 100m final.
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I though that female sprinter won gold already at a world champs?! Looks like I was wrong – congrats to BIM!