Rajindra Campbell

Rajindra Campbell (born 29 February 1996) is a Jamaican-track and field athlete. In 2023, he became the Jamaican national champion and Jamaican national record holder in the shot put. In 2024, representing Jamaica, he won the bronze medal in Paris at the Olympic Games.

Early life Campbell attended Ferncourt High School and Kingston College in his native Jamaica before attending Cloud County Community College in Kansas and then Missouri Southern State University.

Career Campbell won the Jamaican national title in 2023 having improved his personal best to 21.31, in May 2023. Campbell set a new Jamaican national shot put record when he threw 22.22 metres in Madrid, Spain in July 2023.

He was selected to represent Jamaica at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023 where he qualified for the final but did not register a legal throw.

In February 2024, he competed for Jamaica at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow but did not register a legal throw.

In July 2024, he was officially selected for the Jamaican team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. At the Games, he qualified for the final with his single legal throw in qualification of 21.05 metres. He improved that in the final to 22.15 metres and won the bronze medal. American Joe Kovacs equalled Campbell's effort of 22.15 metres but was awarded silver for having the longest second-best effort. Campbell had two legal throws in the final, with a second-best throw of 20.00m. In September 2024 in Zagreb, he extended the Jamaican national record for the shot put to 22.31 metres.

He was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March, placing ninth with a best mark of 20.45 metres. In May 2025 he finished second at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, with a throw of 21.95 metres. He finished third at the Diamond League event at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025. He was fifth with a season’s best 22.04 metres at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July. He placed third at the Diamond League Final in Zurich in August 2025.

In June 2025, it was announced that Campbell was switching allegiance from Jamaica to Turkey, alongside fellow athlete Rojé Stona. As a result, both athletes did not compete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. Önder Özbilen, the team coordinator for Turkey's Olympic athletics team, confirmed the decision in March 2026. The applications were declined by World Athletics in April 2026 as "inconsistent with the core principles of the regulations".

On 1 February 2026, Campbell won the shot put at the Millrose Games, his best of 21.77 metres placing him ahead of Joe Kovacs. Campbell got 2nd at the World Shot Put Series against Roger Steen with a throw of 21.95 m. On 23 May, he secured the first Diamond League win of his career, improving his national record by three centimetres to 22.34m at the 2026 Xiamen Diamond League. In June, he won the LA Grand Prix with 21.34 metres. On 25 June, he extended his own national record, with 22.44 metres in Zagreb. On 4 July, he placed second with 22.16 metres at the 2026 Prefontaine Classic. On 27 August, he finished second with 22.22 metres at the 2026 Weltklasse Zürich.