Athlete PROFILE
Published: Wednesday | August 5, 2009
Wolmer's Josef Robertson clears the hurdle well ahead of the field on the way to setting a national junior record of 50.24 to win the 400 metres hurdles open on day three of the 2006 Boys and Girls' Atlethics Championships at the National Stadium. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
Name: Josef Robertson
Date of birth: May 11, 1987
Place of birth: Kingston, Jamaica
Event: 100m, 400m and 400mH
Personal bests: 46.83 (400m), 49.22 (400mH)
Season bests: 46.83 (400m), 49.22 (400mH)
Best performances: Gold medal, Under-17 400m hurdles, Carifta Games in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2003.
Josef, who represented Calabar and Wolmer's at the National Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships, set a national junior record of 50.24 in winning the hurdles title in 2006. He represented Jamaica at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada, where he made it to the semi-finals. In 2006, he was again on the big stage at the junior level, the IAAF World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, but failed to make it past the first round.
