Jamaica’s Highest Medal Count was at this Olympics
Jamaicans are anticipating the events that Jamaican athletes will be performing in at the Paris 2024 Games. Supporters are in particular looking forward to the medals, with Gold medals being the most desirable.
As usual, Athletes who win gold medals are lauded when they return to the island after the Olympics while the others who don’t medal are sometimes frowned upon, this was something Yohan Blake recently alluded to in an interview.
“Jamaica love winners and once you not winning they not supporting you,” he stated. Understandable, Blake believes he should be shown more respect locally given the fact that he was a part of Jamaica‘s most successful medal haul at the Olympics in history.
Jamaica’s best medal haul at the Olympic Games was in London 2012, 13 medals were won, consisting of 4 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze, during Jamaica’s best era of track and field which consisted of names such as Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Veronica Campbell-Brown. As a result of the medals, Jamaica was ranked 18th at that event.
Notably, Jamaica won 6 gold medals, the island’s highest amount ever, at the 2016 Olympics that was hosted by Brazil, a total of 11 medals were won. On the other hand, Jamaica won 9 medals at the last Olympics in 2020 hosted by Japan.
Despite, the Paris Olympics, starting on July 26, Jamaican’s first participation at the tournament will come on August 2, when Tia Clayton, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson will compete in the Women’s 100 Metres Preliminary Round.
The semi-finals and the final for the Women’s 100 Metres are scheduled for Saturday, August 3.
The island first participated in the Olympic Games back in 1948. To date, Jamaican athletes have won a total of 87 medals over the years. This year, many Jamaicans are hoping that the total will go up to 100 and beyond.
As per one established local track and field coach, “14 medals for Jamaica in Paris.”
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