Emmanuel Callender

Emmanuel Callender

Callender at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Nickname	Eman
Nationality	Trinidad and Tobago
Born	(1984-05-10) 10 May 1984 Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 10.05 200 m: 20.40
Medal record Men's athletics Representing Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4 × 100 m relay 2012 London 4 × 100 m relay World Championships 2009 Berlin 4 × 100 m relay Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 100 m NACAC Championships 2007 San Salvador 4 × 100 m relay CAC Championships 2008 Cali 200 m 2009 Havana 100 m 2011 Mayagüez 4 × 100 m relay 2013 Morelia 4 × 100 m relay
Updated on 7 August 2016

Emmanuel Earl Callender (born 10 May 1984) is a Trinidad and Tobago track and field sprint athlete.

Callender 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, Keston Bledman and Richard Thompson. In their qualification heat (without Callender) they placed first in front of Japan, the Netherlands and Brazil. Their time of 38.26 was the fastest of all sixteen teams participating in the first round and they qualified for the final. Armstrong was replaced by Callender for the final race and they sprinted to a time of 38.06 seconds, the second fastest time after the Jamaican team, winning the silver medal.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he raced in the first round and the final, and Trinidad and Tobago won the silver medal.

Callender set new personal bests in the 100 and 200 meters at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa meet in May 2009, recording times of 10.16 and 20.40 seconds respectively. Since then, he has improved his 100 m personal best, to 10.05 s.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.05 s (wind: +0.4 m/s) – Zurich, Switzerland, 28 August 2009
• 200 m: 20.40 s (wind: +0.3 m/s) – Belém, Brazil, 24 May 2009
• 400 m: 48.47 s – Kingston, Jamaica, 26 January 2008

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Trinidad and Tobago
2006	NACAC Under-23 Championships	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	3rd	4 × 100 m	39.98
2007	NACAC Championships	San Salvador, El Salvador	5th	200 m	20.93 (+1.8 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 100 m	39.92
	Pan American Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	5th	200 m	21.03 (+0.8 m/s)
			4th	4 × 100 m	39.23
2008	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Cali, Colombia	1st	200 m	20.69 (+0.5 m/s)
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	1st	4 × 100 m	38.06
2009	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Havana, Cuba	1st	100 m	10.08 (+0.1 m/s)
			200 m	10th (h)	21.10 (-0.5 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m	38.73
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	26th (qf)	100 m	10.27 (+0.1 m/s)
			8th (sf)	200 m	20.70 (+0.3 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m	37.62
2010	Central American and Caribbean Games	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	3rd (h)†	100 m	10.16 (+1.4 m/s)
			6th	200 m	20.81 (0.0 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m	38.24
	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	4th	100 m	10.25 (+0.3 m/s)
			7th	200 m	21.12 (+0.1 m/s)
			2nd (h)‡	4 × 100 m	39.47
2011	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	5th	200 m	21.12 (+1.1 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m	38.89
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	200 m	33rd (h)	20.97 (-0.3 m/s)
	Pan American Games	Guadalajara, Mexico	3rd	100 m	10.16 (+0.2 m/s)
			–	4 × 100 m	DNF
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	2nd	4 × 100 m	38.12
2013	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Morelia, Mexico	3rd	4 × 100 m	39.26
2014	Central American and Caribbean Games	Xalapa, Mexico	4th (h)	100 m	10.46 A (-0.7 m/s)
			3rd (h)*	200 m	21.33 A (-0.8 m/s)
2015	NACAC Championships	San José, Costa Rica	4th (sf)	100 m	10.25 w (+2.7 m/s)
			5th	4 × 100 m	38.90
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6th (h)†	4 × 100 m	37.96
2017	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	1st (B)	4 × 100 m	39.04
			4th	4 × 200 m	1:21.39
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	27th (h)	100 m	10.25
			9th (h)	4 × 100 m	38.61
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	27th (h)	60 m	6.80
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	23rd (sf)	100 m	10.54
			–	4 × 100 m	DQ

^†: Disqualified in the final.
^‡: Did not finish in the final.
^*: Disqualified in the semifinal.