Name: Yohan Blake

Date of birth: December 26, 1989

Place of birth: St Thomas, Jamaica

Event: 100m and 200m

Personal bests: 9.93 (100m), 20.60 (200m)

Season bests: 9.93 (100m), 20.60 (200m)

Best performances: Bronze medal 100m winner IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China 2006; Gold medallist Under-20 100m and 200m Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Championships in Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, 2006.

Blake, Jamaica's junior 100m record holder at 10.11, broke into the spotlight while under the guidance of Danny Hawthorne. He broke the Boys' Champs Class One 100m record in 2007 when he he ran 10.21. Later in Turks and Caicos islands at the 2007 Carifta Games, he ran 10.18 in the semi-finals of the 100m to beat Raymond Stewart's long-standing national junior record, and hours later lowered it to 10.11 in the final. He left school and joined Usain Bolt at Glen Mills' Racers Camp and immediately he won the 100 metres 'B' race at the 2009 Reebok Grand Prix, which signalled that great things were in the making. He returned for trials but when many were expecting a top-three finish from the former junior star, he disappointed with a sixth-place finish in the final. He left for the Golden Gala in July and had his first sub-10 seconds 9.96, the first 19-year-old to do so, for third place behind Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell. He improved to 9.93 seconds shortly after, taking third place behind training partners Bolt and Daniel Bailey at the Areva meet.