# Nathon Allen

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{{short description|Jamaican track and field athlete|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Nathon Allen
| image = 410reeksen 4x400 jamaica (26002570942).jpg
| caption = Allen in 2016
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|10|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bethany, Jamaica
| height = 
| weight = 
| country = Jamaica
| sport = [Track and field](/source/Track_and_field)
| event = [Sprinting](/source/Sprint_(running))
| collegeteam = [Auburn Tigers](/source/Auburn_Tigers)
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's [track and field](/source/track_and_field)}}
{{MedalCountry|{{JAM}}}}
{{MedalOlympics}}
{{MedalSilver|[2016 Rio de Janeiro](/source/2016_Summer_Olympics)|[4 × 400 m relay](/source/Athletics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_4_%C3%97_400_metres_relay)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[World Championships](/source/IAAF_World_Athletics_Championships)}}
{{MedalSilver|[2019 Doha](/source/2019_World_Athletics_Championships)|[4 × 400 m relay](/source/2019_World_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Men's_4_%C3%97_400_metres_relay)}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Doha|[4 × 400 m mixed](/source/2019_World_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Mixed_4_%C3%97_400_metres_relay)}}
{{MedalSilver|[2022 Eugene](/source/2022_World_Athletics_Championships)|[4 × 400 m relay](/source/2022_World_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Men's_4_%C3%97_400_metres_relay)}}
{{MedalCompetition | [NACAC Championships](/source/NACAC_Championships)}}
{{MedalSilver | [2022 Freeport](/source/2022_NACAC_Championships)|400 m }}
{{MedalCompetition | [NACAC U23 Championships](/source/NACAC_Under-23_Championships_in_Athletics)}}
{{MedalGold | [2016 San Salvador](/source/2016_NACAC_Under-23_Championships_in_Athletics)|400 m }}
{{MedalSilver | [2016 San Salvador](/source/2016_NACAC_Under-23_Championships_in_Athletics)|4 × 100 m relay }}
{{MedalSilver | [2016 San Salvador](/source/2016_NACAC_Under-23_Championships_in_Athletics)|4 × 400 m relay }}
}}
'''Nathon Allen''' (born 28 October 1995) is a Jamaican [track and field](/source/track_and_field) athlete who competes in [sprinting](/source/Sprint_(running)) events. Allen of [St. Jago High School](/source/St._Jago_High_School) and Twayne Crooks of [Kingston College](/source/Kingston_College_(Jamaica)) are the two school boys named to represent Jamaica at second staging of the [World Relays](/source/IAAF_World_Relays) in [Nassau](/source/Nassau%2C_Bahamas). He won an Olympic silver medal as a member of the Jamaican [4 × 400 m relay](/source/Athletics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_4_%C3%97_400_metres_relay) team.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104124/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/al/nathon-allen-1.html Nathon Allen at Sports Reference]</ref>

Allen ran for [Auburn University](/source/Auburn_Tigers), under coach [Henry Rolle](/source/Henry_Rolle_(coach)).<ref>{{cite news | url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20180102/nathon-allen-consulted-mom-going-pro | title=Nathon Allen consulted mom on going pro | date=2 January 2018 | newspaper=The Gleaner | first=Livingston | last=Scott | location=Jamaica | accessdate=11 October 2018 }}</ref> He was also an individual finalist in the 400 meters at the [2017 World Championships](/source/2017_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Men's_400_metres), finishing fifth.

== Personal bests ==
{| class=wikitable
|-
!Event
!Time ([sec](/source/second))
!Venue
!Date
|-
| [100 m](/source/100_m) || 11.04 ||[Kingston](/source/Kingston%2C_Jamaica) (JAM)|| 29 March 2012
|-
| [100 m](/source/100_m) || 10.60 ||Kingston (JAM)|| 14 February 2015
|-
| [200 m](/source/200_m) || 20.70 ||Kingston (JAM)|| 16 April 2016
|-
| [400 m](/source/400_m) ||44.13||Eugene, OR (USA)||8 June 2018
|-
| [4 × 100 m](/source/4_%C3%97_100_m) || 39.89 ||[Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia)(USA)|| 25 April 2015
|-
| [4 × 400 m](/source/4_%C3%97_400_m) || 3:02.98 ||Nassau (BAH)|| 2 May 2015
|-
| [4 × 400 m](/source/4_%C3%97_400_m) || 2:58.16 ||Rio de Janeiro (BRA)|| 20 August 2016
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IAAF}}
*[http://en.omriyadat.com/athlete-bios/nathon-allen Nathon Allen] at OmRiyadat
* {{olympedia}}

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Category:1995 births
Category:Living people
Category:Jamaican men sprinters
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Jamaica
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Jamaica
Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica
Category:Auburn Tigers men's track and field athletes
Category:World Athletics Championships medalists
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:21st-century Jamaican sportsmen
Category:People educated at St. Jago High School

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