- Michael Fray
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Mike Fray Personal information Nationality Jamaican Born 3 September 1947 Sport Sport Track and field Michael (Mike) Fray (born September 3. 1947) is a former Jamaican Olympic sprinter.[1] In the 1968 Mexico Olympics, he ran second leg on the 4x100 meters Jamaican relay team (with Lennox Miller, Clifton Forbes, and schoolboy Errol Stewart) which set the World record at 38.6 seconds in the preliminary heats and then broke the record with a 38.3 seconds clocking in the semi-finals.[2] This 38.3 clocking still stands as the World record for athletes under twenty-three years old.
Running from the tight confines of lane one, he placed 7th. in the finals of the famous (infamous) 1968 Olympic 200 meters won by Tommie Smith who is widely known for his “gloved” black power protest “salute” on the podium along with bronze medalist John Carlos. Both Smith and Carlos were banned for this protest.
In the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany, Fray placed 5th. in the finals of the 100 meters which was won by Russian Valeriy Borzov.
He set a U.S. National Junior College 200 meters record in 1967 while competing for Odessa Junior College and was ranked number 10 in the world in the 200 meters in 1968 by Track & Field News magazine.[3]
As a schoolboy, he placed 4th. behind Miller in the 1965 100 yards finals and 2nd. behind Miller in the 1965 220 yards finals at the World famous Jamaican High Schools Championships (Champs).
Sources
- ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/mike-fray-1.html
- ^ http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=jam/athcode=170163/index.html
- ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/rankings/men/200worldranking.pdf
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