Keston Bledman

Career On 7 July 2007, at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in São Paulo, Brazil, he upset the Jamaican Yohan Blake in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.32 seconds (−1.1 m/s wind).

Bledman represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together with Marc Burns, Aaron Armstrong and Richard Thompson. He was the lead off man. In 2022, Bledman and his teammates received the gold medal due to Jamaica's Nesta Carter testing positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.

He ran in the first round, but not the final of the men's 4 × 100 m at the 2009 World Championships where Trinidad and Tobago won silver. He won his first national title in June 2012 by beating Richard Thompson over 100 m and ran a personal best time of 9.86 seconds, which is currently tied for the 27th fastest ever. At the 2011 World Championships, he qualified for the 100 m final as one of the fastest losers in the semi-final. He was part of the Trinidad and Tobago team 4 × 100 m team that won the bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He ran in the 100 m and the 4 × 100 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal bests Distance Time venue 100 m 9.86 s (+1.4 m/s) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (23 June 2012) 200 m 20.73 s Lappeenranta, Finland (3 August 2008)

International competitions 1 Disqualified in the final.

Track records As of 9 September 2024, Bledman holds the following track records for 100 metres. LocationTimeWindspeedm/sDate Arima 10.08 0.0 10 May 2014 Mayagüez 10.05 –0.5 15 July 2011 Orlando 9.89 +0.9 26 May 2012 Sotteville-lès-Rouen 10.02 +0.6 6 July 2015 Toronto 9.95 +2.8 21 July 2015