Brendon Rodney

Brendon Rodney

Rodney at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1992-04-09) 9 April 1992 Etobicoke, Ontario[1]
Education	Long Island University
Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	sprints, 200 metres, 100 metres,
College team	LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds[3]
Club	Kingston, Jamaica
Turned pro	2016
Coached by	Simon Hodnett (club) Glenroy Gilbert (national)[3]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.28 (2015) 200 m: 19.96 (2016)[4]
Medal record Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay World Championships 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay

Brendon Rodney (born 9 April 1992) is a Canadian sprinter. As a member of the Canadian men's relay team, he won bronze medals in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the same event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He also competed as an individual runner at both events.^[5]

Rodney competed for Canada at the 2013 Summer Universiade. The following year he competed for Canada at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He then competed for Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games. On his way to competing for Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rodney became just the second Canadian man to run the 200 m in under 20 seconds when he ran a 19.96 at the national trials in Edmonton, beating favourite Andre De Grasse.^[6] The win came just weeks after his mother almost died of a brain aneurysm.^[6]

In July 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team. In addition to winning a bronze medal with the Canadian relay team, he competed in the men's 200 metres event, placing third in the seventh of the preliminary heats.^[7]

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