Roshawn Clarke
Roshawn Clarke is a Jamaican track and field athlete. In 2023 and 2025 he won the Jamaican Athletics Championships over 400m hurdles.
Early life
Clarke attended Camperdown High School, in Kingston, Jamaica. He runs for the Swept Track Club.Career
In April 2022, Clarke ran a new championship record time of 49.50 for the 400m hurdles, to win the title at the Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships held in Kingston, Jamaica.In 2022, he was a bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.
Clarke won gold at the 2022 CARIFTA Games in the u-20 boys 400m hurdles, and defended that title at the 2023 CARIFTA Games, running 49.92 at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. He also contributed to the Jamaican team winning the mile relay, and was given the Austin Sealy Award for the most outstanding performer at the Games.
Competing at the Jamaican national championships, Clarke qualified for the 400m hurdles final with the fastest time. In the final, he won the event in 47.85s, a time which tied with Sean Burrell for the world junior record he had set in 2021. He became only the second Jamaican to run under 48 seconds for the event, and the time placed him fourth-fastest in the world for the year.
He lowered his personal best and set a new world under-20 record at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, running 47.34 seconds in his semi-final. He finished fourth overall in the final.
In April 2024, he was selected as part of the Jamiacan team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. In June 2024, he finished second at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in the 400m hurdles in Kingston.
He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, reaching the final of the 400 metres hurdles, but did not finish.
In October 2024, it was announced that he had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track. In the opening race of the first slam held in Kingston, he finished second over 400m hurdles in 48.20 seconds. In the second 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami he suffered an injury and could not finish the race. He returned from injury to run 48.66 seconds to win the 400m hurdles on 7 June 2025, at the Racers Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Kingston, Jamaica. He won the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in 48.02 seconds. Selected for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, he was a semi-finalist in the men's 400 metres hurdles.