Fedrick Dacres
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Nationality | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kingston, Jamaica | February 28, 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | SP (7.26 kg): 20.46 m (Kingston 2017) DT (2 kg): 69.67 m (Stockholm 2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fedrick Dacres (born February 28, 1994) is a Jamaican discus thrower.
He began his throwing career as a student at Calabar High School in Jamaica along with other accomplished throwers such as Chad Wright and Traves Smikle, under the guidance of former Calabar athlete coach Julian Robinson.
He won a gold medal at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, becoming the first Jamaican discus thrower ever to do so.[1] He went on to win a gold medal at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, also becoming the first Jamaican discus thrower ever to do so.[2]
Dacres participated in the boys' discus throw at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
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- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica
- Jamaican male discus throwers
- Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Jamaica
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes of Jamaica
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs