 Frater at the 2010 Janusz Kusocinski Memorial | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1982-10-06)6 October 1982 (age 43) Manchester, Jamaica |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Professional Sprinter |
Event(s) | 100 metres,200 metres |
| College team | TCU Horned Frogs |
| Club | Racers Track Club |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personalbests | |
Medal record | |
Michael FraterO.D (born 6 October 1982) is a Jamaican retiredsprinter who specialised in the100 metres event.[2] He won a silver medal at the2005 World Championships and a gold medal at the2003 Pan American Games for the event.
He has also been successful as part of the Jamaican4 × 100 metres relay team, setting theworld record andOlympic record at the2012 London Olympics and2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won gold in the relay at the2006 Commonwealth Games and took silver in the2002 edition.
Born on 6 October 1982, in Manchester,Jamaica, Michael Frater is the second of three sons of Lyndell Frater, member of Jamaican Parliament, and Monica Frater. He attended the Ulster Spring primary school with brothers Lindel and Ricardo. His elder brotherLindel, was a sprinter who representedJamaica at the2000 Olympic Games. Frater stated that his brother was a major influence on his decision to become a track athlete.[3]
Frater attendedTexas Christian University inFort Worth,Texas.[4] He is a member of the MVP (Maximising Velocity and Power) Track & Field Club based at theUniversity of Technology, Jamaica (U-Tech),Kingston, and is coached by Stephen Francis.
RepresentingWolmer's Boys School, Frater set two records at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association National Boys & Girls Athletic Championship held at theNational Stadium, Kingston. On 22 March, he won the Class 3100 metres in 11.10 and the Class 3200 metres in 22.73.[5]
Frater won gold at theCARIFTA Games, winning the Under-17 100 m in 11.07.[6]
Frater won a bronze medal at the CARIFTA Games. Competing in the Under-17 100 m he recorded 10.85 into a −0.7m/sheadwind. He also won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay event.[6]
On 9 July Frater won a silver medal in the4 × 100 metres relay at the Pan American Junior Championships. He ran thesecond leg for Jamaica, who finished in 40.27 behind the United States team.[7]
Eight days later Frater won a gold medal at theWorld Youth Championships.[8] He ran the second leg on the 4 × 100 m relay, the team's winning time 40.03 setting a new World Youth (under 18) record.[9]
Frater finished second in the 100 m with 10.50 at the Jamaica National Junior Championships on 30 June.[10]
Running forBoyd Anderson High School inLauderdale Lakes,Florida, he won the Florida state championship in the 100 m, and was selected as the Gatorade Outstanding High School Track Athlete for the state.[11]
In October, Frater finished fifth in the 100 m at theIAAF World Junior Championships in a personal best 10.46[12] and again fifth when running the first leg of the 4 × 100 m relay in 40.07.[13]
Frater won the 100 m at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships in 10.07.[14] Although wind aided +2.1 m/s the time is credited as a meet record, with the "(w-a)" notation for wind assistance.[15] In the preliminaries of the 200 m Frater ran a personal best 20.63 (wind +0.6 m/s).[16] He won the 200 m at the same event, in 20.45[17] Again wind assisted (+3.0 m/s), the time is credited as a meet record, with the "(w-a)" notation for wind assistance.[15] Frater collected his third win of the meet when TCU won the 4 × 100 m relay in 39.17,[18] setting another meet record.[15]
On 1 June Frater finished fourth in the 100 m at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, running 10.40 in a −2.7 headwind.[19]
In July at theCommonwealth Games inManchester Frater finished seventh in semi-final 1 of the 100 m event. He then ran the first leg of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team that won a silver medal, the Jamaican team finishing with the same time asEngland, in 38.62 s.[20]
In February Frater ran 6.66 at the Conference USA Indoor Championships, bettering the previous meet record while finishing second in the 60 m. He also finished second in the 200 m.[21]
Frater finished third in the 100 m at theNCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, earning all-American honors.[22]
In early August at thePan American Games, Frater finished second in the 100 m in 10.21[23] He ran the first leg of the 4 × 100 m relay; the Jamaican team finished fourth recording 39.08. Frater was awarded the gold medal for the 100 m and the bronze for the 4 × 100 m relay a week later[24] whenAmerican Mickey Grimes tested positive for the stimulantephedrine,[25] resulting in the disqualification of Grimes and the US relay team.[citation needed]
Three weeks later at theWorld Championships inParis, Frater was eliminated, running in the quarter finals of the 100 m heat immediately followingJon Drummond's on-track protest for disqualification, finishing sixth posting 10.25.[26] He helped the 4 × 100 m relay team qualify second quickest[27] for the final, running the third leg in the semi-final. In the final the baton exchange was not executed cleanly betweenDwight Thomas and Frater, resulting in a DNF for the team.[28]
In May Frater won the 100 m at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships in 10.20. TCU won the 4 × 100 m relay, giving Frater his second win of the meet.[29]
On 12 June Frater finished second in 10.059 toTyson Gay 10.051 at the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Track & Field Championships at theUniversity of Texas.[30][31] As a member of the TCU relay team he finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m event.[32]
Frater was knocked out in the first semi-final of the100 m sprint at the2004 Athens Olympics, finishing sixth in 10.29 into a −1.6 m/s headwind.[33] He ran the anchor leg on the 4 × 100 m relay in the heats, but did not get the chance to run for a medal as the Jamaican team failed to qualify for the final, with a season best 38.71 fourth-place finish in their heat.[34]
On 16 July Frater won the Meeting de MadridIAAF Grand Prix event, recording 10.22 into a −0.7 m/s headwind.[35]
In the2005 World Championships, he won the silver medal in the 100 m with 10.05, finishing second to AmericanJustin Gatlin,[36] who was subsequently banned from competition in 2006 for four years after testing positive fortestosterone or its precursor.[37] The Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team, anchored by Frater, failed to gain a medal in the final, finishing fourth by .001 to theGreat Britain andNorthern Ireland team.[38]
Although he qualified for the 100 m at the2005 World Athletics Final in Monaco, Frater did not start the race.[39]
Frater was disqualified in the semi-finals of the100 m sprint because of a false start at theCommonwealth Games in March.[40]Patrick Johnson was charged with the first false start, which put the entire field under caution. Frater was removed from the field after the second false start, although he had a slower reaction, officially 0.146,[40] to the gun thanJacey Harper in Lane 7. After a third false startMark Lewis-Francis was also disqualified from the semi-final. Frater ran the first leg of the 4 × 100 m relay, earning a gold medal with Jamaica's winning time of 38.36.[41]
Frater withdrew from competing in the Jamaica International Invitational on 6 May, his coach citing financial issues and "disrespect"[42]
In June, Frater won the 100 m in 10.18 at theJAAA National Championships, succeedingAsafa Powell as Jamaica National Champion.[43] He and his brother Lindel are the only brothers to win the 100 m event at the national championships.[44]
Frater, 10.13, finished second toDarrel Brown, 10.02, ofTrinidad at the Jamaica International Invitational on 5 May.[45]
In June at the National Championships on a day highlighted byVeronica Campbell-Brown's emphatic victory in the female 100 m in a world-leading time of 10.89, Frater failed to qualify for theOsaka World Championships when he clocked a less than impressive 10.46. His only chance was left up to the final semi-final of the day but the exploits of talented schoolboyYohan Blake (10.19) pushedNesta Carter to run a blistering 10.17 thus making the third heat the fastest heat of the day. This meant that theWorld Championships silver medalist was out of the finals and as a result did not make the Jamaican team to Osaka.[citation needed]
On 28 July Frater clocked 9.95 at the 4th Gran Premio Internacional de Atletismo Gobierno de Aragon held in Zaragoza, Spain. The wind for the race was an illegal 3.7 m/s.[46]
Frater finished third in the 100 m at the2007 World Athletics Final,Stuttgart, in 10.11[47]
On 28 June 2008, Frater finished third in the Jamaica National Championships (behindUsain Bolt 9.85, Asafa Powell 9.97) in 10.04, and qualified for the2008 Olympics inBeijing.[citation needed]
He finished sixth in theOlympic 100 m final setting a personal best of 9.97 seconds.[citation needed]
Frater won a gold medal in Beijing, running the second leg of the 4 × 100 m relay. The relay team of Carter, Frater, Bolt and Powell set a newworld record of 37.10, with Frater recording a split time of 9.01 seconds for his leg. (USATF High Performance Registered Split Analysis). The gold medal was later rescinded by the IOC on 25 January 2017, after a retest of Frater's teammateNesta Carter found the presence of the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.[48]
In a Jamaican sweep of the medal positions led by Asafa Powell and Nesta Carter, Frater again finished third in the 100 m at theWorld Athletics Final, Stuttgart, in 10.10[49]
One week later Frater won the 100 m at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix on 20 September, the first official event of the IAAF 2009 Grand Prix series.[50]
Frater was honoured in a homecoming celebration in Jamaica and received anOrder of Distinction (Officer Rank) in recognitionof his achievements at theOlympics.[51]
Frater ran the second leg for his MVP 4 × 100 m relay team at the Milo Western Relays held at the GC Foster College on 14 February. The team recorded a new meet record and world leading time of 38.72 s for the relay event.[52]
On 7 March, Frater was inducted into the Boyd Anderson Ring of Honor.[53]
On 16 April Frater was nominated for the Laureus World Team of the Year award, as a member of the 2008 Jamaica Olympic Sprint Team.[54][55] Two days later Frater ran a leg of the 4 × 100 m at the UTech Track and Field Classic at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. The teams winning 38.46 clocking was a new meet record.[56][57] Frater also ran the 200 m at the event, finishing fourth in 20.96[58]
Frater next competed at thePenn Relays on 25 April. He ran the second leg of the 4 × 100 m relay. Asafa Powell on the fourth leg pulled up and finished ninth in 41.24[59] A report in theJamaica Observer on the morning of the event indicated that Powell had injured his ankle in training and was not expected to run.[60]
At theGuadeloupe International Invitational On 1 May, Frater placed third in the 100 m in 10.39[61] On 8 May he finished second in 10.15 at theQatar Athletic Super Grand Prix.[62] He finished eighth at theReebok Grand Prix held inNew York City atIcahn Stadium on 30 May.[63] At thePrefontaine Classic eight days later he finished sixth.[64]
Frater showed a spectacular return to form at the Jamaica National Trials, finishing third in the 100 m in 10.02 (−0.2 m/s wind), qualifying for the World Championships in Berlin.[65]
In a surprise upset at the National Championships, Frater was beaten into second place in the 100 m final.[citation needed]
Following the National Championships Frater did not compete in the IAAF Diamond League events.[citation needed]
A Gleaner newspaper report revealed that Frater had suffered a ruptured knee ligament in 2010.[66]
As part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team, setting the world record and Olympic record on 11 August 2012, at the 2012 London Olympics. Frater ran the second leg, and his split was timed at 8.9 seconds, only surpassed that night by Usain Bolt's 8.8 seconds on the anchor leg.
| Event | Time (seconds) | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres | 6.64[67] | Ames, Iowa, United States | 1 March 2002 |
| 100 metres | 9.88[68] | Lausanne, Switzerland | 30 June 2011 |
| 200 metres | 20.63[69] | Louisville, United States | 9 May 2002 |
| Event | Result (Pos) | City | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 CARIFTA Games | 1st Final | Bridgetown | , 1997 |
| 1998 CARIFTA Games | 3rd Final | Port of Spain | , 1998 |
| 2000 IAAF World Junior Championships | 5th Final | Santiago de Chile | 18 October 2000 |
| 2003 Pan American Games | 1st Final | Santo Domingo | 6 August 2003 |
| 2004 Olympic Games | 6th Semi-Final | Athens | 22 August 2004 |
| 2005 IAAF World Championships | 2nd Final | Helsinki | 7 August 2005 |
| 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final | D.N.S. Final | Monaco | 10 September 2005 |
| 2006 Commonwealth Games | DQ Semi-Final | Melbourne | 25 March 2006 |
| 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final | 3rd Final | Stuttgart | 22 September 2007 |
| 2008 Olympic Games | 6th Final | Beijing | 16 August 2008 |
| 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final | 3rd Final | Stuttgart | 13 September 2008 |
| 2009 World Championships | 5th Semi-Final | Berlin | 16 August 2009 |
| 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final | 2nd Final | Thessaloniki | 12 September 2009 |
| Event | Result | City | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 CARIFTA Games | 2nd Final | Port of Spain | , 1998 |
| 1999 Pan American Junior Games | 2nd Final | Tampa | 11 July 1999 |
| 1999 World Youth Championships | 1st Final | Bydgoszcz | 17 July 1999 |
| 2002 Commonwealth Games | 2nd Final | Manchester | 31 July 2002 |
| 2003 Pan American Games | 3rd Final | Santo Domingo | 6 August 2003 |
| 2003 World Championships | DQ Final | Paris | 31 August 2003 |
| 2004 Olympic Games | 4th Semi-Final | Athens | 22 August 2004 |
| 2005 World Championships | 4th Final | Helsinki | 13 August 2005 |
| 2006 Commonwealth Games | 1st Final | Melbourne | 25 March 2006 |
| 2008 Olympic Games | DQ Final | Beijing | 22 August 2008 |
| 2009 World Championships | 1st Final | Berlin | 22 August 2009 |
| 2012 Olympic Games | 1st Final | London | 11 August 2012  |
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