Jasauna Dennis (born 30 December 2004) is a Jamaican sprinter.[1]
.jpg) Dennis at the 2025 World Indoor Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 December 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 400m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400m: 45.38 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
editHe attended St. Elizabeth Technical High School in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica.[2]
Career
editHe won a silver medal in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay, and a bronze medal in the mixed 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.[3][4] He won the individual U20 400 metres at the 2023 CARIFTA Games in Nassau, Bahamas in April 2023.[5] In 2024, he ran a personal best outdoors of 45.38 seconds.
Competing for the University of South Carolina, he ran an indoor personal best of 46.32 at the SEC Indoor Championships preliminaries on 1 March 2025.[6] He then lowered it again to 46.02 later-on at the meet.[7]
He won a silver medal in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing.[8][9][10] Dennis won the gold medal in the men’s 400 meters at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay, with a time of 45.56 seconds to set a new junior Pan American record.[11] He was selected for the Jamaican relay team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[12] He ran as the Jamaican team reached the final of the men's 4 x 400 metres relay.[13] That year, he signed an NIL contract with sportswear brand Puma.[14]
References
edit- ↑ "Jasauna Dennis". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "Jasauna Dennis finishes 400m second". Jamaica Gleaner. 6 May 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "U20s face setbacks, speedsters in the mood". Jamaica Gleaner. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "Men's 4x400m relay final". World Athletics. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "JAMAICA CROWNED CHAMPIONS OF THE 50TH CARIFTA GAMES". Panamsports. 13 April 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "Caribbean athletes shine in prelims at SEC Indoor Championships in Texas". SportsMax. 1 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "LSU's Reid takes 200m bronze at SEC Indoor Championships with fourth-fastest time by Caribbean man; Lyston takes silver in 60m". SportsMax. 1 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "USA dominates men's 4x400m in Nanjing". World Athletics. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "Pinnock and Men's 4x400m Relay Win Silver as World Indoors Ends in Nanjing". SportsMax. 23 March 2025. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "JAMAICA SETS A NEW JUNIOR PAN AMERICAN RECORD". Panamsports.org. 21 August 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ↑ "JAAA names 50-member World Champs team, Thomas-Dodd opts out". Jamaica Observer. 30 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ↑ Bell, Delano George (24 December 2025). "Jamaican Sprinter, Jasauna Dennis, Turns Longtime Puma Connection Into Official NIL Deal". Jamaicans.com. Retrieved 10 March 2026.