2008 Beijing Olympics: Germaine Mason soars to surprise Olympic high jump silver in Beijing - Olympics - Telegraph Advertisement Germaine Mason soars to surprise Olympic high jump silver in Beijing A high jumper who was axed from the Lottery funding programme last year because his performances were not measuring up was the unlikely source of Britain's first athletics medal of the 2008 Games. Shining example: Germaine Mason proudly shows off his Olympic high jump silver medal Photo: AFP By Simon Hart in Beijing 9:25PM BST 19 Aug 2008 Germaine Mason, who won a junior world bronze for Jamaica six years ago but who had failed to hit the heights since switching allegiance in 2005, equalled his personal best of 2.34 metres to win a surprise silver medal behind Russia's Andrei Silnov. "I am a bit speechless, very happy and overwhelmed," he said, before underlining his British credentials by adding: "I am so super-duper right now." Although Mason's defection caused outrage in Jamaica, the Union Jack that he draped around his shoulders to celebrate is not a mere flag of convenience.

Confusingly, he has a British father who lives in Jamaica and a Jamaican mother who lives in west London. He has also held a UK passport all his life and when he was struck by a serious knee ligament injury in 2004 he took the opportunity to serve out the obligatory two-year period of ineligibility for any athlete wanting to switch countries. Before making his British debut in the 2006 European Cup, he declared that it was his aim to win an Olympic medal for his new country. Related Articles Images of the day 19 Aug 2008 "I feel very British," he said yesterday. "Britain is my home and that is where it is going to be forever." Well, almost. The 25-year-old actually still spends six months of the year in Jamaica training with his old high school coach, Steven Francis, Asafa Powell's coach. And judging by the warm hug he received from Usain Bolt, who finished his 200 metres semi-final just as Mason was celebrating his medal, his Jamaican connections still run deep. Bolt said: "We've been friends since 2002 and I'm very happy for him.

He had knee surgery and he's coming back now, so I'm happy for him. To me, it doesn't really matter who he runs for." Mason said his loss of Lottery funding had hit him hard. "That is one of the things that motivated me. Track and field is not a sport that pays a lot. It was very tough." Andy Baddeley faded in the final of the 1500m and finished ninth, behind winner Rashid Ramzi, of Bahrain. Sarah Claxton was eighth in the final of the women's 100m hurdles, in which American favourite Lolo Jones stumbled over the penultimate hurdle and went from first to seventh. Dawn Harper claimed the gold. Martyn Rooney produced a personal best of 44.60sec to reach the final of the 400m, with Christian Malcolm making the final of the 200m. Andy Turner and Allan Scott failed to make the semi-finals of the 110m hurdlers, while Jo Pavey pulled out of the 5,000m heats with a stomach problem.

Germaine Mason - Olympic High Jump Silver Medallist Germaine Mason - Olympic High Jump Silver Medallist News and opinions from athletics home and away FACTS Date of Birth: January 20, 1983 Place of Birth: Kingston, Jamaica Height: 1.94 metres (6 feet, 3 inch) Weight: 87 Kg (191.4 pounds) Residence: Kingston, Jamaica Club (s) : Maximizing Velocity and Power (MVP)/Birchfield Harrier Track and Field Clubs Coach: Stephen Francis Personal Best(s): 2.34 metres (outdoor), 2.30 metres (indoor) Parents: Father David was born in London. Mother Carol was born in Jamaica.

Sibling: Three brothers Andre,Maradona and Damion.Sister Simone International medals: - Silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (competing for Great Britain) - Bronze at the 2006 (27th) Spar European Cup Super League in Malaga, Spain (competing for Britain) - Bronze at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary (competing for Jamaica) - Gold at 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (competing for Jamaica) - Bronze at the 2002 IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica (competing for Jamaica) - Silver at the 2000 IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile (competing for Jamaica) World Ranking: 2.24 metres (outdoor) BIO Germaine Mason has the distinction of winning global medals for two countries. The 26-year-old captured two medals at the World Junior Championships in Chile (silver 2000) and Jamaica (bronze 2002), as well as a bronze at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Hungary.

He also claimed a coveted silver medal for Britain at the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, China, having switched allegiance to the home land of his father, David, in 2006. However, Mason’s trek to international acclaim has not been a bed of roses. The affable high jumper, who was introduced to the event at the tender age of 13 in 1996 by his physical education teacher (Mr. Henry) at Windward Road All-Age School, has had to fight adversity after suffering a career-threatening knee injury in 2004. Mason was playing basketball when Henry approached and convinced him to turn out for high jump training. “I broke the school record the first day I started and I went to the (Institute of Sports) All-Age Championships where I met Christopher Harley, the assistant coach of Wolmer’s Boys School and he asked if I wanted to attend Wolmer’s. I thought about it for some time because I was considering whether I should go to the school (St. Andrew Technical High School) for which I passed my technical entrance exams and then my grandmother Merlyn Mason persuaded me to attend Wolmer’s, where I met Stephen Francis,” Mason recalled.

Prior to Windward Road Junior All-Age, Mason attended Harbour View Primary School between 1989 and 1995, where he participated in football, basketball, as well as track and field. “He (Francis) took me under his wings and taught me the proper technique and how to high jump really good, but I still wasn’t taking it seriously until the year 2000 when I went to the World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile and won a silver medal. Before that, I was still winning medals at the National Boys’ and Girls’ School Championships, as well as the CARIFTA Games (Caribbean) and Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships,” Mason said, noting that he started to harbour thoughts of making a career as a higher jumper, following his success in Chile at age 17. “Even though I looked at it as a profession and a way out, there was still distractions around me; I had a year (2001) when I did not do any track and field at all and then I went to my second World Junior Championships in my hometown at the time, Kingston, and I won a bronze medal.

At that point my coach Stephen Francis and I sat down and had a long talk about taking it to the other level, moving from being a junior to a senior,” Mason related. “So I came up to UTech (The University of Technology) where I studied the Art and Science of coaching (between 2001 and 2003), which I got a certificate in, then I went to Excelsior Community College to do a prerequisite course for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, which I only did for one year before stopping because of how my track and field career was beginning to develop,” he said. “So then in 2003, I had one of my best seasons where I broke the Jamaican national record five times, once indoor and four times outdoor before going to the World Championships in Paris, where I placed fifth. After that I was really ready to take on the world because that was my first experience as a senior athlete and then I went to the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary where I had a career-threatening injury, rupturing my patella tendon in my left knee, which put me out of the sports for more than a year.

A lot of people thought that I wouldn’t return to the level that I was, but I was very determined to prove a lot of people wrong,” Mason recalled. “Even the doctor, who did the surgery (Dr John Zvijac), told me I only had a 50-50 chance to come back to the level that I was at but coach Francis believed in me and told me to just be strong and I would get across the barrier which I needed to cross to get back to the level which I was once at. 2005 wasn’t a great year for me financially and there was a mishap between myself and coach Francis where things did not go the way it should have gone for my surgery and then my mother and my brothers had moved from Jamaica to the UK and she told me that I should come and represent Britain,” Mason recalled, adding that his mom had a huge influence on his career because of her support from his days at primary school. “I thought about what she said and at the time Francis and I weren’t on good terms and I decided to make that switch. Ever since I’ve been there it has been good because the country supports me a lot.

I don’t have any thoughts of representing Jamaica again, even though I’m back in Jamaica training with Stephen Francis at the MVP track club again,” he posited, noting that he had worked with the Texas-based American coach Sue Humphrey for a year, on the recommendation of his then agent Cubee Seegobin. Humphrey had guided Charles Austin to the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Games. That move did not work out, so Mason moved to London for “three months” before returning to Jamaica to rejoin his long-time coach Stephen Francis. “I saw Coach Francis at the London Grand Prix in 2006 and he understood my frustration which forced me to leave initially and we worked out things and made arrangements for my return to Jamaica.” Mason immediately rediscovered his old form under Francis, clearing 2.27 metres to claim the bronze medal at the 27th Spar European Cup Super League in Malaga, Spain for Britain. He had a sub-par season in 2007, failing to reach the final at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, but rebounded in 2008 to claim the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, despite competing injured.

“I was thinking about when I was lying on the hospital bed in Budapest, thinking about missing the 2004 Athens Olympics Games and thinking that I’ve come a far way from 2004 to 2008 to win the Olympic silver medal, which Great Britain did not win for 100 years,” Mason said, adding that it was a dream come true. “Just being at that level, which I always wanted to be at ever since I took up High Jump serious, because I never really see the world championships or the commonwealth games as my main goal. Everything that I did at the Olympics is something that I pictured myself doing four years earlier at the Athens Games,” he reasoned. Britain had last medaled in the event at the 1908 London Games, where Con Leahy cleared 1.88 metres, earning the silver medal. Mason, who intends to better his silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics, has plans to remain in the sport after he retire's from high jump.

Germaine Mason Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Medals: 1 Silver (1 Total) Biography Germaine Mason was born in Jamaica to an English father and Jamaican mother and initially competed for the nation of his birth. He won medals for Jamaica at the 2000 and 2002 World Junior Championships and was Pan American Games champion in 2003. His career nearly ended at the 2004 World Indoor Championship where he suffered a ruptured patella tendon in his left knee which put him out of the sport for over a year. On his return to jumping he switched his allegiance to the land of his father and, after serving the necessary qualification period, began competing for Great Britain in 2006. His first two seasons as a Briton were not very successful but at the Beijing Olympics he equaled his personal best to win an unexpected silver medal. His medal was the first won in the high jump by a British man in a century. Mason's career has been plagued by injury since Beijing and he has not appeared at a major championship since 2008.

Results Olympics: Athletics - Mixed-up Jamaican Germaine Mason fires Britain's track medal charge | Sport | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close By rights, Jamaica should have been claiming yet another medallist last night after Germaine Mason won silver in the high jump. But the red, white and blue flag draped around his shoulders told another story. In fact, it told a story so confusing that the first British track and field athlete to make the podium at these Games did not quite know the truth himself. Mason, 25, equalled his personal best of 2.34 metres to become the first athlete representing Britain to win a silver medal in this event for 100 years. As he wandered off the track, he was given a huge hug by the sprinter who shared his last championship glory with him. "We are friends, we have been friends from way back in 2002," said Usain Bolt, the Jamaican who won the 100m in such impressive style on Saturday. "I am very happy for him.

To me, it does not really matter who he competes for." Mason's father David is English, but he lives in Jamaica - where the high jumper was born - while his mother Carol is Jamaican but lives in west London. He has dual nationality and after first leaving Jamaica in 2005 when he fell out with his coach, Stephen Francis, he now spends six months of the year back on the island with the same man and a group that includes the former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell. "I spend six months of the year in Jamaica, training with Stephen Francis, and I come back to Europe to do the European circuit," he said. Twelve months ago his form was so disappointing because of injury that he was taken off the UK Athletics world-class lottery funding. It was one of the driving forces he needed to produce the best performance of his career here last night. "It made a big difference," said Mason. "That [no funding] is one of the things that motivated me to come out here and do my best. Track and field is not a sport that pays a lot. It was very tough.

But I am here, a silver medallist." In the space of 30 seconds Mason said his home is both Britain - "I feel very British. Britain is my home and that is where it is going to be forever" - and Jamaica. And by the attention he was receiving, it was something of a shared success. "When Germaine left, there was a public outcry," said a leading member of the Jamaican media. Steve Smith was the last Briton to win an Olympic high jump medal when he took bronze at the Atlanta Games in 1996, but not since Con Leahy, in London in 1908, has the team won silver. Prospects were good from the start last night, though, as Britain began with three competitors in the final. Tom Parsons and Martyn Bernard, the Commonwealth silver medallist, were both eliminated at 2.25m, whereupon Mason cleared 2.34m to take the lead.

In the end he could not match Russia's Andrey Silnov, who won with 2.36m, but his performance - half an hour before Christine Ohuruogu's triumph in the 400m - lifted a track and field squad that had reaped no reward until then. "I am very happy, I am overwhelmed," said Mason. "I am super-duper right now. My hopes going into the Olympics were very good. I have been jumping consistently in my last few meets and this is the Olympics. Anything can happen and there is no medal for any specific person. "I just wanted to go out there and do the best I could. I did that, I equalled my personal best and I won a silver medal." That personal best had been achieved in 2003 at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic - few in the British team have that competition in their CV. A year before that he was in the Jamaican team at the world junior championships in Kingston, where Bolt burst on to the international scene when he became the youngest winner of the 200m.

Mason jumped to bronze on that occasion and he recalled: "Usain and I competed at a lot of Games together when I was competing for Jamaica. We are good friends. He gave me a pat on the back [tonight] and he told me well done." BBC SPORT | Olympics | Athletics | Mason jumps to silver for Britain Mason jumps to silver for Britain Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory. Video - Silver joy for jumper Germaine Germaine Mason captured Great Britain's first athletics medal in Beijing as he claimed high jump silver behind Russian Andrey Silnov. The 25-year-old, who switched allegiance from Jamaica in 2006, cleared 2.34m at the first attempt to win a medal on his Olympic debut. "I'm very proud to be the first medallist," he told BBC Sport. Favourite Silnov secured gold as he was the only athlete to clear 2.36m, with Russian Yaroslav Rybakov taking bronze. Defending champion Stefan Holm managed 2.32m and may now postpone retirement. For the first time since 1952, Britain had three representatives in an Olympic high jump final.

Tom Parsons and Martyn Bernard both comfortably cleared 2.25m but failed to go any further. Parsons failed in all three attempts at 2.29m while Bernard failed at 2.32m. They finished eighth and ninth respectively. Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory. Video - Mason delighted with silver medal Mason failed at his first attempt at 2.29m but then opted to pass on that height, moving on to clear 2.32m and 2.34m with ease. "I was so excited, I'm happy I came here and delivered silver for Great Britain," said Mason, the cousin of British sprinter Simeon Williamson. "I've been working for this for four years of my life and it feels like heaven. "This means so much for me. This is the second greatest thing. Thank you to UK Athletics for giving me this opportunity to represent Great Britain." Mason clattered the bar on all three efforts at 2.36m - a height which he is yet to clear in his career - but Rybakov also failed at that height and lost out to the Briton on countback.

In 2003, Mason claimed World Indoor bronze for Jamaica and still holds the national record there but was persuaded to switch allegiance by his mother. He is eligible to represent Britain because his father David was born in London and his change in nationality was ratified by athletics' governing body, the IAAF, in 2006. He arrived in Beijing without the pressure of medal expectations after a relatively low-key season. But the 25-year-old, who trains in Texas with coach Sue Humphrey, warmed up for the Games with 2.31m at Crystal Palace at the end of July and carried that form into the Games. Bookmark with: Germaine Mason - 必应 Sign in Germaine Mason Germaine Mason (born January 20, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican-born track and field athlete competing in high jump. In 2006, he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents Great Britain. He attended Wolmer's School in Kingston. He won silver and bronze medals at the World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2002 respectively, the latter event held in his hometown of Kingston.

His first medal at senior level came at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, when he won a gold medal, having achieved a personal best j ... (展开) ump of 2.34 metres. He finished fifth at the World Championships the same year. The following seasons saw him drop to 2.25 m (2004) and 2.27 m (2005), but 2.25 m was enough to win a bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The medal was won jointly with Jaroslav Bába and Ştefan Vasilache. Mason is eligible to represent Great Britain because his father David was born in London. Mason's mother persuaded him to switch allegiance, and Mason's change in nationality was ratified by athletics' governing body, the IAAF, in 2006. Mason won a silver medal for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics on 19 August 2008. He equaled his personal best of 2.34m, beaten only by Russia's Andrey Silnov with 2.36 m.

During Winter he is coached in Jamaica by Stephen Francis, who also coaches Asafa Powell and in Summer his base is in Birmingham with Fuzz Ahmed as his coach. His second cousin is fellow British athlete, Simeon Williamson. Welcome. Germaine Mason Official Website. Here you will find the latest news, photos galleries, facts & info - I will keep you updated with all my latest happenings ... germainemason.net Germaine Mason的用法讲解 法语助手是权威的法语在线词典,为您提供Germaine Mason的中文意思,Germaine Mason的读音,Germaine Mason的同义词,Germaine Mason的 ... Mason 姓名：马森 Germaine Mason (英国) 国籍：英国 性别：男 生日：1983.1.20 身高：1.70米 体重：70公斤 项目：田径跳高 共有 0 人参与投票 形象 实力 人气 运气 0 0 0 0 ...

sports.sina.com.cn/star/germaine_mason Germaine Mason (born January 20, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican-born track and field athlete competing in high jump. In 2006, he switched sporting allegiance, and ... 248 connections · York, United Kingdom View Germaine Mason’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Germaine Mason discover inside ... Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's High Jump | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's High Jump Venue(s): Beijing National Stadium, Beijing Date Started: August 17, 2008 Date Finished: August 19, 2008 Gold: Yaroslav Rybakov Summary The automatic qualifying height of 2.29 (7-6) proved difficult and took out the 2007 World Champion [Donald Thomas] (BAH) and bronze medalist [Kyriakos Iannou] (CYP).

The 2004 Olympic champion, Sweden's [Stefan Holm], was back but had had a difficult year with injuries. In the final, Russia's [Andrey Silnov] was a comfortable winner, clearing six consecutive heights on his first attempt, finishing with 2.36 (7-8¾). He tried 2.42 (7-11¼) and had two close misses but could not get over the bar. Britain's [Germaine Mason] and [Yaroslav Rybakov] (RUS) both cleared 2.34 (7-8) on their first attempt, with Mason winning the silver medal based on fewer misses at lower heights. Holm placed fourth. For the first time ever at the Olympics, save 1980, no American jumper made the final. Silnov had not actually qualified for the Russian team at the Russian Olympic Trials, placing fourth, but his post-Trials performances led to his being placed on the team, in lieu of Andrey Tereshin, who had placed third at the Trials.

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High flyer: Germaine Mason springs to a surprise silver medal after he cleared 2.34m in the Bird's Nest stadium Photo: EPA By Tom Knight and Jolyon Attwooll 2:23PM BST 19 Aug 2008 It was the most unexpected of medals, coming from a former Jamaican who changed allegiances to represent this country in 2005. His form has been so poor since he came to Britain that he was taken off the lottery-funded world class programme last year. Mason, 25, who has a British father still living in Jamaica, won his silver medal by clearing 2.34m, equalling his personal best. It is only Britain's second Olympic medal in the event, while the gold medal went to Russia's Andrey Silnov. Mason, who only finished third in the Olympic trials in Birmingham last month, had failed with his three attempts at 2.36m but still celebrated Britain's first high jump medal since Steve Smith won bronze in Atlanta in 1996.

Related Articles Caribbean Medalists in the Olympic Games - Page 4 Caribbean Medalists in the Olympic Games 830,658 People who medaled for other Nations with Caribbean Connections - Germaine Mason Germaine Mason (born January 20, 1983 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born athlete competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents Great Britain. He won silver and bronze medals at the World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2002 respectively, the latter event held in his hometown of Kingston. His first medal at senior level came at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, when he won a gold medal, having achieved a personal best jump of 2.34 metres. He finished fifth at the World Championships the same year. The following seasons saw him drop to 2.25 m (2004) and 2.27 m (2005), but 2.25 metres was enough to win a bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

The medal was won jointly with Jaroslav Bï¿½ba and Ştefan Vasilache. Mason is eligible to represent Great Britain because his father David was born in London. Mason's mother persuaded him to switch allegiance, and Mason's change in nationality was ratified by athletics' governing body, the IAAF, in 2006. Mason won a silver medal for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics on 19th August 2008. He equalled his personal best of 2.34m, beaten only by Russia's Andrey Silnov with 2.36m. He is coached in Texas by Sue Humphrey, who also coached Charles Austin to an Olympic Gold Medal in the 1996 Games. His second cousin is fellow British athlete, Simeon Williamson.

Medal record Silver 2008 Beijing High jump Competitor for Jamaica Bronze 2004 Budapest High jump Pan American Games Gold 2003 Santo Domingo High jump Olympics: Mixed-up Jamaican Mason fires Britain's track medal charge Michael Phillips in the Bird's Nest The Guardian, Wednesday August 20 2008 Article history Germaine Mason equalled his personal best of 2.34 metres to win silver in the high jump. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images By rights, Jamaica should have been claiming yet another medallist last night after Germaine Mason won silver in the high jump. But the red, white and blue flag draped around his shoulders told another story. In fact, it told a story so confusing that the first British track and field athlete to make the podium at these Games did not quite know the truth himself. Mason, 25, equalled his personal best of 2.34 metres to become the first athlete representing Britain to win a silver medal in this event for 100 years. As he wandered off the track, he was given a huge hug by the sprinter who shared his last championship glory with him.

"We are friends, we have been friends from way back in 2002," said Usain Bolt, the Jamaican who won the 100m in such impressive style on Saturday. "I am very happy for him. To me, it does not really matter who he competes for." Mason's father David is English, but he lives in Jamaica - where the high jumper was born - while his mother Carol is Jamaican but lives in west London. He has dual nationality and after first leaving Jamaica in 2005 when he fell out with his coach, Stephen Francis, he now spends six months of the year back on the island with the same man and a group that includes the former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell. "I spend six months of the year in Jamaica, training with Stephen Francis, and I come back to Europe to do the European circuit," he said. Twelve months ago his form was so disappointing because of injury that he was taken off the UK Athletics world-class lottery funding. It was one of the driving forces he needed to produce the best performance of his career here last night. "It made a big difference," said Mason.

"That [no funding] is one of the things that motivated me to come out here and do my best. Track and field is not a sport that pays a lot. It was very tough. But I am here, a silver medallist." In the space of 30 seconds Mason said his home is both Britain - "I feel very British. Britain is my home and that is where it is going to be forever" - and Jamaica. And by the attention he was receiving, it was something of a shared success. "When Germaine left, there was a public outcry," said a leading member of the Jamaican media. Steve Smith was the last Briton to win an Olympic high jump medal when he took bronze at the Atlanta Games in 1996, but not since Con Leahy, in London in 1908, has the team won silver. Prospects were good from the start last night, though, as Britain began with three competitors in the final. Tom Parsons and Martyn Bernard, the Commonwealth silver medallist, were both eliminated at 2.25m, whereupon Mason cleared 2.34m to take the lead.

In the end he could not match Russia's Andrey Silnov, who won with 2.36m, but his performance - half an hour before Christine Ohuruogu's triumph in the 400m - lifted a track and field squad that had reaped no reward until then. "I am very happy, I am overwhelmed," said Mason. "I am super-duper right now. My hopes going into the Olympics were very good. I have been jumping consistently in my last few meets and this is the Olympics. Anything can happen and there is no medal for any specific person. "I just wanted to go out there and do the best I could. I did that, I equalled my personal best and I won a silver medal." That personal best had been achieved in 2003 at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic - few in the British team have that competition in their CV. A year before that he was in the Jamaican team at the world junior championships in Kingston, where Bolt burst on to the international scene when he became the youngest winner of the 200m.

Mason jumped to bronze on that occasion and he recalled: "Usain and I competed at a lot of Games together when I was competing for Jamaica. We are good friends. He gave me a pat on the back [tonight] and he told me well done." 830,658 People who medaled for other Nations with Caribbean Connections - Natasha Danvers Natasha De'Anka 'Tasha' Danvers (born September 19, 1977) is a British Olympic bronze medalist, who finished in third place in the 400m Hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Between 2003 and 2007, she was styled as Tasha Danvers-Smith, before reverting to the name Tasha Danvers in the 2008 season.She was born in London to two athletes, Dorrett and Donald, who both moved to United Kingdom from Jamaica as children. Athletics Career In 1999, she represented Great Britain at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics with a time of 56.66 in the heats.

This failed to see her qualify through the rounds, however it gave her vital experience, which she took on to the following year at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. At the age of 23, Danvers made the final of her first Olympic games, finishing in 8th place, after going out too hard[1]. The following year, she won the 400 m hurdles at the 2001 Summer Universiade. In 2002, she attended her first Commonwealth Games, in Manchester. She finished 7th in the final, behind the winner Jana Pittman of Australia. An athlete she would meet in the future Melaine Walker of Jamaica finished in 4th place. That same year, she also finished 7th in the 2002 European Athletics Championships. In 2003, she married her Coach, Darrell Smith, the nephew of sprint coach John Smith. From that season, she was styled as Natasha Danvers-Smith. Danvers-Smith missed her second successive Olympics, as she had taken time out for child-birth. This was criticized by many, as they said she would never make a return.

She returned in 2006 to take a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games, behind Pittman, as well as a seventh place in the final of the [[2006 European Athletics Championships|European Championships. At the end of this year, she reached a career high of 6th in the IAAF rankings. While competing for the University of Southern California (USC), Natasha won several PAC-10 conference titles and competed in several events including the high jump and the 100 m hurdles. Natasha won the NCAA title in 2000 her second year as captain of the USC Lady Trojans. After the Sydney Olympics, she returned to Los Angeles to finish her degree in Music Business and joined the famed training group HSI. In February 2007, Tasha was inducted into the USC Hall of Fame. Returning to the world scene in 2007, Tasha made her first World Championship final, in a near personal best, 54.08. She drew lane 2 in the final and took 8th, but finished the season with a strong run of races following Osaka, finishing the season ranked number 10 by Track and Field News.

She remained the British number one for the 2nd consecutive year. In 2008, reverting to the name Danvers, Tasha's athletics season started badly. She had achilles problems, and tore her calf muscle on her first training session back from the achilles injury. At that years British championships she recorded a disappointing time of 57.00, finishing in 2nd place far below her personal best. The race was won by the young athlete Perri Shakes Drayton. WHen the Olympic team was announced the following week, many critizied the selection of Danvers, as Shakes Drayton was an improving athlete, and Danvers, in many people's opinions, had reached her peak. However, Danvers attended the Olympics, winning her heat, and finishing 2nd in her semi-final, being the 4th fastest qualifier for the 400 m hurdles final. Danvers was in lane 7, one inside of ones of the favourites Tiffany Ross Williams. On entering the final straight, Danvers found herself in 3rd place.

A part of the race that had been disastrous for her in the past, seemed to be in her favour, as she stormed down the straight closing down on the two athletes ahead of her. She won a bronze medal in the final, with a personal best of 53.84s, behind Melaine Walker of Jamaica and Sheena Tosta of the United States. Medal Record Bronze 2008 Beijing 400 m hurdles Women's athletics Silver 2006 Melbourne 400 m hurdles Other Whilst not competing, Danvers is a keen artist. She started singing from an early age, and currently paints canvases, winning awards for her paintings. [2] She is also a public speaker, coach and personal trainer, as well as becoming a prominent fitness model.

Performance at Major Games Championship Event Heat Semifinal Final Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank 1999 World Championships 400m Hurdles 56.22 6 Did not advance 2000 Olympics 400m Hurdles 55.68 54.95 55.00 8 2000 Olympics 4x400m Relay 3:25.28 1* 3:25.67 6 2001 World Championships 400m Hurdles 56.36 4 Did not advance 2001 World Championships 4x400m Relay 3:25.25 2* 3:26.94 5 2003 World Championships 400m Hurdles 56.02 4 55.48 7 Did not advance 2003 World Championships 4x400m Relay 3:26.44 2* 3:26.67 6 2007 World Championships 400m

 Hurdles 55.67 3 54.08 2 54.94 8 2008 Olympics 400 m hurdles 55.19 1 54.31 2 53.84 Danvers only competed in the final, and did not run a leg in the heat.

Personal Bests 100 m hurdles, 12.96 (2003) 400 m hurdles, 53.84 (2008) High jump, 1.82 m 1998) 830,658 4X400 Bahamas - Silver Medalists Andretti Bain (born 1 December 1985) is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau. Bain finished fifth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Chris Brown, Timothy Munnings and Dennis Darling. He also was the NCAA Indoor champion at 400m in 2008. Setting an indoor personal best of 46.02 in the preliminary round. Bain repeated his feat in 2008, winning the NCAA outdoor 400m championship in 44.62 over USC's Lionel Larry.

Was part of the Bahamas' silver-medal winning team in the men's 4x400m relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Michael Mathieu 100 Metres 10.58 Nassau 02/02/2002 200 Metres 20.80 0.10 Rio de Janeiro 25/07/2007 400 Metres 45.17 Beijing (National Stadium) 18/08/2008 Personal Best - Indoor 200 Metres 21.20 New Haven, CT 03/02/2007 400 Metres 46.55 Fayetteville, AR 16/02/2008 Progression - Outdoor Season Performance Wind Place Date 100 Metres 2002 10.58 Nassau 02/02/2002 200 Metres 2007 20.80 0.10 Rio de Janeiro 25/07/2007 2006 20.83 1.90 Austin, TX 26/05/2006 400 Metres

 2008 45.17 Beijing (National Stadium) 18/08/2008 2007 45.22 Osaka 23/08/2007 2006 45.90 Cartagena de Indias 25/07/2006 2005 46.06 Norman, OK 28/05/2005 2004 45.96 Levellan, TX 08/05/2004 2001 49.08 Bahamas 26/05/2001 Season Performance Wind Place Date 200 Metres 2008 21.33 Fayetteville, AR 25/01/2008 2007 21.20 New Haven, CT 03/02/2007 400 Metres 2008 46.55 Fayetteville, AR 16/02/2008 2005 47.

18 Lincoln, NE 26/02/2005 Honours Rank Performance Wind Place Date 400 Metres The XXIX Olympic Games 6 sf 45.56 Beijing (National Stadium) 19/08/2008 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships 3 h 47.34 Valencia, ESP Andrae Williams (Old Texas Tech Profile) 2006 INDOOR: All-American on the 4x400M and all-conference in the 200M ...

in the 200M, ran a 21.34 at the Big 12 Championships placing fourth and setting a new personal-record ... clocked a season high time of 47.28 in the 400M at the Wes Kittley 6Way ... ran on the 4x400M seven times during the season and clocked two NCAA provisional team times of 3:07.29 at the ISU Last Chance and 3:07.62 at the Tyson Invite. 2005 OUTDOOR: Earned All-America honors as a member of the seventh-place 4x400M relay team at the NCAA Championships ... helped 4x400M relay team establish a school record of 3:01.69 in the preliminary round of the NCAA Championships ... two-time all-region in the 400M and 4x400M relay ... finished fourth at the Midwest Regional in the 400M with a personal-best time of 46.06 ...

member of the 4x400M relay that finished second with a time of 3:03.91 at the Midwest Regional ... collected two all-conference awards in the 200M and 400M ... finished sixth and fourth in the 200M and 400M, respectively, at the Big 12 Championships ... helped the sprint medley relay claim Tech's fourth-straight victory in the event at Texas Relays in a school-record 3:13.04 ... established a personal best of 20.96 in the 200M at the Wes Kittley Open. 2005 INDOOR: All-American and two-time all-conference ... in the 400M, had three provisional; qualifying marks throughout the season ... set a career-best with a time of 46.89 at the Wes Kittley 6-Way ... Big 12 conference runner-up with a time of 47.18, good for all-conference honors ...

as a member of the 4x400M, ran second or fourth leg on teams that clocked four provisional and one automatic qualifying time ... ran the anchor leg on the team that clocked a 3:04.75, a new school record, at the ISU Last Chance meet ... earned all-conference honors running the second leg of the Big 12 runner-up team that registered a time of 3:07.42 ... earned his first All-American honors as a Red Raider with a time of 3:05.81 and a sixth-place finish. SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN: Earned All-American status in the indoor 400M and the outdoor 4x100M and 4x400M relays ... 2004 JUCO Indoor National champion in the 400M. HIGH SCHOOL: 2001 graduate of St. George's in Freeport, Bahamas ... named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year. PERSONAL: Born 6-24-83 in the Bahamas ... one of six children ... majoring in economics. 2006 INDOOR: All-American and two-time all-confernce ...

participated in three events and recorded personal-bests in two ... ran a 47.69 in the 400M at the UNM Invite and a 1:09.31 in the 600Y at the Wes Kittley Open ... placed fourth in the 600Y at the Big 12 Championships with a finals time of 1:09.99 ... was a member of the 4x400 relay team six times during the season, clocking NCAA provisional team times twice, and a season-best of 3:07.29 at the ISU Last Chance ... anchored the 4x400M that finished sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships. 2005 OUTDOOR: Two-time all-American in the 400M and 4x400M relay ... finished third in the 400M with a school-record time of 44.90 at the NCAA Championships ... member of the seventh-place 4x400M relay team at the NCAA Championships ...

helped 4x400M relay team establish a school record of 3:01.69 in the preliminary round of the NCAA Championships ... all-region in the same events ... was second in the 400M at the Midwest Regional in a time of 45.29 ... helped the 4x400M relay team to a second-place finish in a time of 3:03.91 at the regional meet ... claimed three all-conference honors in the 200M, 400M and 4x400M relay ... was fourth in the 200M at the Big 12 Championships in a time of 21.04 ... ran a personal-best 20.66 in the preliminary round ... finished second in the 400M at the conference championships in a time of 45.90 ... member of the second-place 4x400M relay that ran a time of 3:04.23 at the Big 12 Championships ...

helped the sprint medley relay claim Tech's fourth-straight victory in the event at Texas Relays in a school-record 3:13.06 ... at Penn Relays, helped sprint medley relay to a first-place finish in a time of 3:15.08 ... totaled 12 regional qualifying times in the 200M, 400M and 4x400M relay during the season. 2005 INDOOR: All-American, Big 12 Champion and two-time all-conference ... made one appearance on the season in the 400M, clocking a 47.99 at the Tyson Invite ... crowned Big 12 Champion in the 600Y with a time of 1:10.22, the sixth-best time in the record book ... ran a 1:10.71 in the prelims at the conference meet ... as a member of the 4x400M, ran with teams that clocked four provisional and one automatic qualifying time.

AMATEUR EXPERIENCE: Represented the Bahamas in the 2003 Pan American Games, participating in the 4x400M relay ... member of the Bahamas World Championship team ... competed at the 2004 Olympiad in Athens, representing the Bahamas, ran the third leg of the 4x400M relay team that qualified for the finals and finished sixth overall with a 3:01.8 ... member of Team Bahamas at the 2005 World Championships ... clocked a 44.9 in the open 400M ... ran the third leg of the 4x400M and clocked a 2:59.73 in the first round and a 2:57.32 in the finals ... relay team finished with a silver medal behind the American team. SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: Won two national titles ... in 2003, he ran the anchor leg of the champion 4x800M relay team ...

during the 2004 NJCAA Championships, won a national title in the 400M in 46.07, former SPC and current Tech teammate Chris Adams placed second in 46.12 ... ran a PR of 20.87 in the 200M and a 45.79 in the 400M ... two-time team MVP and two-year captain during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. HIGH SCHOOL: 2001 graduate of Jack Hayward high school ... member Cariffta and Junior CAC teams during the 2001 and 2002 seasons ... team MVP during the 2002 capaign ... particpated in the World Junior Event in Jamaica as a member of the 4x400M. PERSONAL: Born 7-12-83 in Freeport, Grand Bahama to parents Icelyn Williams and the late Edmond Williams ... has four sisters: Lateka Stubs, Adriana Oliver, Cindy Williams and Paulette Williams and one brother: Everett Williams ...

majoring in exercise and sport sciences Chris Brown (born August 15, 1978) is a Bahamian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has been a successful relay runner with four World Championships medals. In 2007 Brown had his most successful year with gold medals in both the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2007 Pan American Games. This was followed by equaling the Bahamian national record when finishing fourth in the 400m final at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.

In addition, Brown (together with Avard Moncur, Andrae Williams and Michael Mathieu) won silver in the 4 x 400m relay at the 2007 World Championships.[1] Medal record Silver 2001 Edmonton 4x400 m relay Silver 2005 Helsinki 4x400 m relay Silver 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay Bronze 2003 Paris 4x400 m relay World Indoor Championships Bronze 2006 Moskva 400 m Bronze 2008 Valencia 400 m Pan American Games

Question: Athlete Germaine Mason won a silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in which event?
Answer: High jump