Marvin Anderson

Marvin Anderson

Personal information
Nationality	Jamaica
Born	12 May 1982 (1982-05-12) (age 29) Trelawny
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	69 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.11 s (Kingston 2008) 200 m: 20.06 s (Osaka 2007)
Medal record Men’s Athletics Competitor for  Jamaica World Championships Silver 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay Pan American Games Silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro 200 m

Marvin Anderson (born 12 May 1982) is a Jamaican sprint athlete.^[1]

He finished sixth in the 200m final at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka where he also won a silver medal in the 4×100m relay team for Jamaica. He is a former student of Duncans All Age and William Knibb Memorial High School.

Anderson represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed third in his first round heat after Marlon Devonish and Kim Collins in a time of 20.85 seconds. With this result he qualified for the second round, but he did finish the second race and was eliminated.^[1]

He tested positive for the stimulant 4-Methyl-2-hexanamine in June 2009.^[2][3] A disciplinary panel organised by the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) cleared him of a doping infraction on the grounds that the drug was not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list. However, JADCO appealed their own panel's ruling, stating that the athlete should be disciplined as the drug was similar in structure to the banned substance tuaminoheptane.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Athlete biography: Marvin Anderson, beijing2008.cn, ret: 1 September 2008
2. ^ Jamaican athletes fail drug tests . BBC Sport (2009-07-24). Retrieved on 2009-08-13.
3. ^ Row in Jamaica over athletes cleared of doping.
4. ^ IAAF wait for Jamaica drug ruling . BBC Sport (2009-08-11). Retrieved on 2009-08-13.

External links

• IAAF profile for Marvin Anderson

Persondata
Name	Anderson, Marvin
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	12 May 1982
Place of birth	Trelawny
Date of death
Place of death