Ian Thompson (high jumper)

Ian Thompson

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Bahamas
CAC Junior Championships (U20)
	1988 Nassau	High jump
CARIFTA Games Junior (U20)
	1988 Kingston	High Jump
	1987 Port of Spain	High Jump

Ian Thompson (Ian Ronald Thompson; 8 December 1968 – 15 March 1999) was a Bahamian high jumper.

Career

He finished eleventh at the 1995 World Championships. He won the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in 1988.

He died in March 1999 and the Bahamian 4x100 metre women's relay team dedicated their gold medal in the 1999 World Championships to him.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing the Bahamas
1987	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	2nd	2.09 m
1988	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Kingston, Jamaica	1st	2.11 m
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	2.05 m
1993	Universiade	Buffalo, United States	8th	2.21 m
1994	Commonwealth Games	Victoria, Canada	9th	2.25 m
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	11th	2.25 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	10th (q)	2.26 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	18th (q)	2.20 m

External links

• Ian Thompson at World Athletics
• Profile at Sports-Reference.com