Antoine Adams during 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow.
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Full name | Antoine Xavier Adams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Saint Kitts and Nevis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Cayon, Saint Kitts and Nevis |
31 August 1988 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) |
100 m: 10.01 s (Basseterre 2013) 200 m: 20.08 s (Basseterre 2014) |
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Medal record
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Updated on 23 December 2014. |
100 m: 10.01 s (Basseterre 2013)
Antoine Xavier Adams (born 31 August 1988) is a Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. Adams helped win a bronze medal as a part of the 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
Born August 31, 1988, in Cayon Antoine Adams excelled in Track & Field in his early years leading up to high school. Upon graduating Cayon High School he attended The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College but left after a couple months. Antoine decided to further his track career and registered for community college in Houston and later met his coach Eric Francis. In 2013 at the CAC Championships in Morelia, Adams broke the 200 National Record of St. Kitts and Nevis, bringing it down to 20.13s.
1: Disqualified in the semifinal.