Ray Stewart

Raymond Douglas Stewart (born 18 March 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a former Jamaican athlete who specialised in the 100 metres event.

As a junior athlete Stewart found much success at the CARIFTA Games, winning five gold medals within a four-year period.

In 1984 he reached the 100 m Olympic final and won an Olympic silver medal for the 4×100 metres relay.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles Stewart won a silver medal with the Jamaican relay team.

Running the anchor leg in a timed 9.28 s, Stewart passed the Canadian Sterling Hinds and crossed the line to record a finishing time of 38.62 In addition to that he came sixth in the 100 m final, his time 10.29 with 0.2 m/s wind.

At 19 years old, he was the youngest athlete to compete in the 100 m Olympic final, and had won each of his heats on his way to the final.

Stewart started attendance at Texas Christian University.

Stewart won the 100 m Jamaica National Championship in 10.35.

Stewart's season was cut short by a quadriceps injury.

Stewart ran the anchor leg of the 4x100 m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Baton Rouge.

TCU's winning time of 38.62 was the fastest time by any collegiate team of the season.

Stewart also won the individual NCAA 100 m Outdoor championship.

Stewart again won the 100 m Jamaica National Championship, in 10.30.

At the 1987 World Championships he took silver in the 100 m and bronze with the Jamaican relay team.

He won two medals at the 1987 World Championships in Rome.

A leg injury in the 1988 Olympic final of the 100 m ruined his medal chances in both the individual and relay events.

Recording 10.08 s, he won the bronze medal in the 100 m, behind Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis; his finish position and medal were later upgraded after Johnson was disqualified following his positive test for a steroid at the 1988 Olympics and later admission of seven years of use.

Running the anchor leg for the 4 × 100 m relay team he earned a bronze medal in 38.41 s. Stewart finished the season ranked number four in the world.

Stewart won the 100 m Jamaica National Championship for the third consecutive year, in 10.08.

A new personal best of 9.97 seconds at the NCAA Outdoor Championships made him the number one ranked 100 m athlete in 1989 and the first Jamaican to officially break the 10-second barrier.

At the competition he also recorded the third fastest relay time ever.

He won his first Commonwealth Games medal the following year, taking bronze in the relay.

Stewart recorded a national record of 9.96 seconds at the 1991 World Championships but this was surprisingly only enough for sixth place; two continental records and the world record were broken in the race.

Stewart reached his third consecutive Olympic 100 m final in 1992, becoming the first man to do so.

He reached the 1993 and 1995 World Championship finals of the 100 m but failed to medal.

He attended his last Olympics in 1996.

Stewart had a career that lasted almost twenty years, competing at four successive Olympic Games and six World Championships.

He also won the 100 m at the Jamaican national championships seven times.

His 100 m personal best of 9.96 seconds makes him the fifth fastest Jamaican sprinter in the event, after Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter and Yohan Blake.

He went on to coach a number of prominent sprinters, including Jerome Young, but received a life-ban from athletics in 2010 as he had allegedly obtained performance-enhancing drugs for his athletes.

Stewart attended Camperdown High School, and was coached by Glen Mills.

After leaving Camperdown Stewart attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas

Running in the Under 17 Boy's category Stewart won the 100 m event at the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, his time being 10.9 s. He completed a successful double by winning the 200 m in 22.32 s.

At the CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France Stewart finished second in the Under 20 Men 100 m, in a wind aided 10.40.

He won the 200 m event in the same category in 21.13 s. A bronze medal with the 4 × 100 m relay team was earned with a time of 41.28 s.

At the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki Stewart, only 18 years old, finished fifth in heat two of the 100 m semi final.

His time of 10.40 was .01 slower than the third- and fourth-place finishers in his heat.

Stewart also ran the second leg of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team, which finished seventh in 38.75 s.

Stewart won the 100 m Jamaica National Championship in 10.37.

In the Nassau CARIFTA Games Stewart won both the Under 20 Men 100 m in 10.2 s, and the 4 × 100 m relay in 41.0 s.