Jamaica’s London Olympics relay gold medallist Nesta Carter has called time on his athletics career.
In a press release yesterday, through MVP Track and Field Club, the 35-year-old sprinter said he could not compete up to his standard in the sport. He said he has been hampered by an injury that has prevented him from competing since March.
“Now at the age of 35, I am no longer able to give of my best as an athlete to the sport that I know and love. As a result and for other reasons, I am announcing my retirement from Track and Field as an athlete,” Carter said.
Nesta Carter (left) returned a failed drug test from his Beijing 2008 ‘A’ sample. Photo: Getty Images
Carter ends his career with a personal best in the 100m of 9.78 seconds, the eighth fastest time in history. He won Olympic gold as a member of the Jamaica 4x100m relay team that set the world record at the 2012 London Olympic Games (36.84 seconds). He won three World Championships gold medals as part of the Jamaica 4x100m relay team in 2011, 2013, and 2015, silver in 2007 and an individual bronze in 100m final in 2013.
In 2016 Carter returned a positive doping test results for Methylhexanamine from 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
He failed the drug test after International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 samples from 2008 Olympic Games.
The report said that the IOC requested to test Carter’s B sample after his A test showed a presence of banned substance Methylhexanamine from 2008 Olympics.
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