
SPORTS FACTS
James Beckford

James Beckford
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
James Beckford is the only Jamaican athlete to win field
with silvers in the Long Jump at the 1996 Olympics and 1995 World
Championships.
He also made the finals at the World Championships in
1997 and 2001 and won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games in 2001. At the
1995 World Championships he finished 6th in the Triple Jump, a double
performance rarely matched in recent years and then topped that performance
when he ran the lead-off leg on the 4 X 100 relay team when finished 4th in
the final.
Extracted from Jamaican Athletes - Courage and Endurance
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