Asafa Powell
Event Result ( Pos ) City Date
2003 IAAF World Athletics Final 7th Final Monaco 13 September 2003
2004 Olympic Games 5th Final Athens 22 August 2004
2004 IAAF World Athletics Final 1st Final Monaco 18 September 2004
2006 Commonwealth Games 1st Final Melbourne 20 March 2006
2006 IAAF World Athletics Final 1st Final Stuttgart 9 September 2006
2007 World Championships 3rd Final Osaka 26 August 2007
2007 IAAF World Athletics Final 1st Final Stuttgart 22 September 2007
2008 Olympic Games 5th Final Beijing 16 August 2008
2008 IAAF World Athletics Final 1st Final Stuttgart 13 September 2008
2009 World Championships 3rd Final Berlin 16 August 2009
2009 IAAF World Athletics Final 2nd Final Thessaloniki 12 September 2009
2012 Olympic Games 8th Final London 5 August 2012
2015 World Championships 7th Final Beijing 23 August 2015
Accomplishments and major competition results -- Competition record
60 metres Event Result City Date 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships 5th Semifinal Budapest 5 March 2004 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2nd Final Portland , Oregon 18 March 2016 100 metres
Asafa Powell, CD (born 23 November 1982) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008 with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consistently broken the 10-second barrier in competition, with his personal best of 9.72 s ranking fourth on the all-time list of male 100 metre athletes. As of 1 September 2016, Powell has broken the ten-second barrier more times than anyone else - 97 times. He currently holds the world record for the 100 yard dash with a time of 9.09 s, set on 27 May 2010 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games he won a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay. Powell competed in the 100 m at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, finishing fifth in 2004 and 2008 and eighth after injuring his groin during the race in 2012. At the 2007 Osaka World Championships, he won a bronze and a silver medal in the 100 m and 4 x 100 m relay respectively, and he was successful at the Commonwealth Games, winning two golds and one silver medal. At the 2009 World Championships, he won the 100 m bronze and relay gold. Powell has won five times at the IAAF World Athletics Final and was the former 100 m world record holder in the event. Powell had tested positive for the drug oxilofrine in 2013 and withdrew from the 2013 World Athletics Championships as a result. Powell and fellow Jamaican Sprinter, Sherone Simpson had taken the supplement Ephiphany D1 as part of their training regimen, not knowing it contained oxilofrine.