Donovan A. Bailey OC OOnt
Born 1960s.
Son of [father unknown] and Icilda (Francis) Duncan
Brother of
Arlene Duncan [half]
[children unknown]
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Biography
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World and Olympic Champion Sprinter
Donovan was born in 1967 in Manchester Parish, Jamaica. He is a retired Canadian sprinter who once held the world record for the 100 metre race following his gold medal performance in the 1996 Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian to legally break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m.
Donovan emigrated from Jamaica to Canada at age 13, and played basketball before his graduation at Queen Elizabeth Park High School in Oakville, Ontario. He began competing as a 100 m sprinter part-time in 1991, but he did not take up the sport seriously until 1994. At the 1995 World Track & Field Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, Bailey won both the 100 metre sprint and the 4 x 100 metre relay titles. He then broke the indoor 50 m world record during a competition in Reno, Nevada in 1996, timed at 5.56 seconds. Bailey repeated the "double" at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, setting a world record of 9.84s 0.7 m/s wind in the 100 m. Bailey won a third world title in 1997 with the Canadian relay team, while finishing second in the 100 m.
He retired from the sport in 2001, having been a five-time World and Olympic champion. In 2004, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2016, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada. [1] His half-sister is singer and actress Arlene Duncan. Donovan is still living.
Sources
- Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. (2014). Donovan Bailey. Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. https://oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/27-donovan-bailey.
- Wikipedia contributors. (2021, June 30). Donovan Bailey. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 13, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_Bailey
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