Roshawn Clarke

Clarke attended Camperdown High School, in Kingston, Jamaica.^[3] He runs for the Swept Track Club.^[4]

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In April 2022, Clarke ran a new championship record time of 49.50 for the 400m hurdles, to win the title at the Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships held in Kingston, Jamaica.^[5]

In 2022, he was a bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.^[6]

Clarke won gold at the 2022 CARIFTA Games in the u-20 boys 400m hurdles, and defended that title at the 2023 CARIFTA Games, running 49.92 at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas.^[7] He also contributed to the Jamaican team winning the mile relay, and was given the Austin Sealy Award for the most outstanding performer at the Games.^[8]

Competing at the Jamaican national championships, Clarke qualified for the 400m hurdles final with the fastest time.^[9] In the final, he won the event in 47.85s, a time which tied with Sean Burrell for the world junior record he had set in 2021.^[10] He became only the second Jamaican to run under 48 seconds for the event, and the time placed him fourth-fastest in the world for the year.^[11][12]

He lowered his personal best and set a new world under-20 record at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, running 47.34 seconds in his semi-final. He finished fourth overall in the final.^[13]

In April 2024, he was selected as part of the Jamiacan team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.^[14] In June 2024, he finished second at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in the 400m hurdles in Kingston.^[15]

He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, reaching the final of the 400 metres hurdles, but did not finish.^[16][17]

In October 2024, it was announced that he had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track.^[18]

In the opening race of the first slam held in Kingston, he finished second over 400m hurdles in 48.20 seconds.^[19] In the second 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami he suffered an injury and could not finish the race.^[20] He returned from injury to run 48.66 seconds to win the 400m hurdles on 7 June 2025, at the Racers Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Kingston, Jamaica.^[21] He won the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in 48.02 seconds.^[22] Selected for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, he was a semi-finalist in the men's 400 metres hurdles.^[23][24]

At the 2026 Camperdown Classics, he won the 60 metres in 6.62 (-1.4) for first place.^[25] He competed at Velocity Fest 18 in kingston in March finishing the 200 metres in 20.41 (+0.2) in 1st.^[26] Clarke was named in the Jamaica squad for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana, but later withdrew from the team.^[27][28] On 21 June, he placed third over 200 metres at the 2026 Jamaican Athletics Championships.^[29] In July, he was a semi-finalist in the 200 metres at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.^[30][31]