Delano Williams

Who is Delano Williams?

Delano Livingston Williams was born on 23 December 1993 on Grand Turk and became the first Turks and Caicos Islander to compete at the Olympic Games. He first drew attention as a sprinter after a Jamaican talent scout spotted his speed during a baseball game in the Turks and Caicos Islands, which led him to enroll at Munro College in Jamaica. Competing for Munro, he won both the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 2012 Jamaican National High School Championships ('Champs'), becoming the first non-Jamaican national to take that double title, and later that year he won the 200 metres at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona. Because the Turks and Caicos Islands, as a British Overseas Territory, has no International Olympic Committee-recognized team, Williams became eligible to compete for Great Britain through his British citizenship and was confirmed to represent Great Britain in June 2013. He went on to win a bronze medal as part of Great Britain's 4x400 metres relay team at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, running a 44.6-second leg, and represented Great Britain at the Rio 2016 Olympics. His selection for Rio 2016 was celebrated across the Turks and Caicos Islands as the achievement of the territory's first Olympian, and he was welcomed home with a motorcade.

Sources: Wikipedia, "Delano Williams" (accessed 2026) · Jamaica Observer, "Delano Williams – The Greatest Short Sprinter in Champs History" (30 April 2016)