Name: Lerone Clarke

Date of birth: July 7, 1981

Place of birth: Trelawny, Jamaica

Event: 100m and 200m

Personal bests: 10.08 (100m), 21.18 (200m)

Season bests: 10.08 (100m), 21.18 (200m)

Best performances: Silver medals, 100m and 4x100 at Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships in Havana, Cuba, 2009; bronze medal, 4x100m, CAC Games in Cartagena, Colombia, 2006. He was fourth in 4x100m relay at the 2005 World Championships, together with teammates Dwight Thomas, Ainsley Waugh and Michael Frater.

This season, he has recorded his best outings, adding to his double silver medal in Cuba, he has lowered his personal best from 10.15 seconds, achieved in May 2007 in Kingston, to 10.08. He finished seventh at the Jamaica trials and was drafted on the team as a late replacement for Marvin Anderson, who is carrying a hamstring injury.