Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medal Name Sport Event Date
Gold Usain Bolt Athletics Men 's 100 m August 16
Gold Shelly-Ann Fraser Athletics Women 's 100 m August 17
Gold Usain Bolt Athletics Men 's 200 m August 20
Gold Melaine Walker Athletics Women 's 400 m hurdles August 20
Gold Veronica Campbell-Brown Athletics Women 's 200 m August 21
Silver Sherone Simpson Athletics Women 's 100 m August 17
Silver Kerron Stewart Athletics Women 's 100 m August 17
Silver Shericka Williams Athletics Women 's 400 m August 19
Silver Bobby-Gaye Wilkins * Shereefa Lloyd Rosemarie Whyte Novlene Williams Shericka Williams Athletics Women 's 4 × 400m relay August 23
Bronze Kerron Stewart Athletics Women 's 200 m August 21
Bronze Chelsea Hammond Athletics Women 's long jump August 22
Medalists
Jamaica sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. This was, by far, Jamaica's best showing at the Summer Olympics; it was the nation's largest delegation yet, and its athletes nearly doubled its total gold medal count in addition to breaking the nation's record for number of medals earned in a single games. Jamaica's appearance at Beijing was its fifteenth consecutive appearance and appearance as an independent nation, although it had previously participated in four other games (including its 1948 debut) as a British colony and as part of the West Indies Federation. In the 29 events that included Jamaican athletes, there were 26 cases in which a Jamaican athlete or relay progressed to a final round. Usain Bolt won three of Jamaica's six gold medals at Beijing, breaking an Olympic and world record in all three of the events in which he participated. Shelly-Ann Fraser led an unprecedented Jamaican sweep of the medals in the Women's 100 m. Female sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown carried Jamaica's flag at the ceremonies.