Tyrice Taylor

Tyrice Taylor
Personal information
Nationality Jamaica
Born (2001-10-31) 31 October 2001
Sport
SportTrack and Field
Event
Middle-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)800 m: 1:43.74 (Freeport, 2025)
Indoor
800 m: 1:46.00 (Fayetteville, 2026)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Jamaica
NACAC Championships
2025 Freeport 800 m
Carifta Games
Junior (U20)
2019 George Town 800 meters

Tyrice Taylor (born 31 October 2001) is a Jamaican middle-distance runner. He won the Jamaican national title over 800 metres in 2025, and that year held the national record for the distance before becoming a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships and winning the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships.[1]

Early life

He attended The Enid Bennett High School in Saint Catherine Parish. In 2018 he won over 800 metres at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletic Championships.[2] He won over 800m in the boys U20 race at the Digicel Grand Prix Final at GC Foster College in 2019.[3] He won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2019 CARIFTA Games in Grand Cayman.[4]

Career

Competing for Indian Hills Community College he won at the 2023 National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Outdoor Championships in New Mexico, defeating compatriot Kimar Farquharson over 800 metres in 1:46.93.[5]

Competing for the University of Arkansas at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas in February 2025 he ran a personal best 1:46.62 to win in the men’s 800m.[6] In doing so, he was only 0.01 seconds outside the Jamaican indoor national record set in 2023 by Tarees Rhoden.[7]

He finished second in the men’s 800m elite invitational race at the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, California in April 2023, running a new personal best time of 1:45.81 to move into the top-ten Jamaican all-time list for the event.[8]

He qualified for the final of the men’s 800m at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in a personal best 1:45.23 in June 2025.[9] In the final he placed eighth in a time of 1:47.44.[10] Later that month, he won the 800 metres final of the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston, Jamaica in a time of 1:45.26.[11] He ran 1:46.46 to finish second behind Canada’s Abdullahi Hassan at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet, on 12 July in Memphis, Tennessee.[12]

Taylor was named in the Jamaican squad for the 2025 NACAC Championships in Nassau, The Bahamas, winning the bronze medal in the 800 metres in a new personal best time of 1:43.74, which broke the Jamaican national record in the event, surpassing the previous mark held by Navasky Anderson.[13][14][15] He was a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres alongside Anderson, as for the first time Jamaica had two semi-finalists in the event at the Championships, with Anderson then regaining the Jamaican national record in the semi-final.[16][17][18]

On 14 February 2026, Taylor set a new Jamaican indoor 800 metres record of 1:46.11 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville.[19] However, that record was broken a few days later in Fayetteville by Rivaldo Marshall.[20][21] Competing at the 2026 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, he won the final of the 800 metres in a Jamaican one-two finish ahead of Marshall, running an indoor personal best or 1:46.00.[22][23]

Taylor was selected to represent Jamaica at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[24]

References

  1. ^ "Tyrice Taylor". World Athletics. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Tyrice Taylor: Focussing on success". Jamaica Gleaner. 14 Feb 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  3. ^ Foster, Anthony (20 March 2019). "Taylor wins 400m at Digicel Grand Prix Final". Track Alerts. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  4. ^ Foster, Anthony (22 April 2019). "Williams, Foote win double gold". Track Alerts. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  5. ^ Levy, Leighton (22 May 2023). "Tyrice Taylor, Rushana Dwyer, DeSean Boyce among winners at NJCAA Division 1 Championships". SportsMax. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  6. ^ Jacks, Bradley (15 Feb 2025). "Jamaicans Tyrice Taylor, Machaeda Linton secure wins at Tyson Invitational". SportsMax. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Tyrice Taylor narrowly misses national indoor record in men's 800m". Jamaica Observer. 17 Feb 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  8. ^ Reid, Paul (23 April 2025). "Marshall,Tyrice Taylor lower 800m times". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  9. ^ Levy, Leighton (12 June 2025). "Tyrice Taylor Runs Lifetime Best to Reach NCAA 800m Final, Marshall Also Advances". SportsMax. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  10. ^ Gault, Jonathan; Johnson, Robert; Johnson, Weldon (June 14, 2025). "NCAA Men: Nathan Green Golden, Corrigan & Whitmarsh Get Crowns, Musau Repeats". LetsRun. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  11. ^ Jacks, Bradley (28 June 2025). "Beckford, Taylor claim maiden 800m titles at National Champs". SportsMax. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  12. ^ "Adrian Kerr Seals Tokyo 2025 Berth as Caribbean Athletes Deliver at Ed Murphey Track Classic". Track Alerts. 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  13. ^ Levy, Leighton (9 July 2025). "Tia Clayton Returns as Jamaica Names Powerhouse Team for NACAC Championships in Bahamas". SportsMax. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  14. ^ "Taylor books WC ticket with NACAC performance". Jamaica Gleaner. 17 August 2025. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  15. ^ "Roban makes history at NACAC Championships". World Athletics. 18 August 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  16. ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  17. ^ "JAAA names 50-member World Champs team, Thomas-Dodd opts out". Jamaica Observer. 30 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  18. ^ "Navasky Anderson becomes first Jamaican male to reach 800m final". Our.Today. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 Sep 2025.
  19. ^ "Jelani Watkins Wins 200m In Career Best, Tyrice Taylor Breaks Jamaican 800m Record". Arkansasrazorbacks.com. 14 Feb 2026. Retrieved 19 Feb 2026.
  20. ^ "Rivaldo Marshall breaks men's indoor 800m record". Jamaica Observer. 21 Feb 2026. Retrieved 22 Feb 2026.
  21. ^ "Marshall sets new national 800m indoor record". Jamaica Gleaner. 22 Feb 2026. Retrieved 22 Feb 2026.
  22. ^ "Shenese Walker, Tyrice Taylor ahead in their events at NCAA Indoor Championships". Jamaica Observer. 13 March 2026. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  23. ^ Gault, Jonathan (March 15, 2026). "NCAA Indoor men: Colin Sahlman wins controversial 3000 via DQ, as sprint records fall". Lets Run. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
  24. ^ Smith, Gary (March 9, 2026). "Olympic silver medalist Kishane Thompson headlines the Jamaica 2026 World Indoor team". World-Track. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
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