Caimin
Douglas
Caimin Christian Douglas (born May 11, 1977 in Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant)
is a Dutch sprinter.
Douglas was born in Rosmalen, out of a
Dutch mother and an Antillean father. At the age of five the family
returned to his father's roots in Curaçao. There he played football
from the age of 11 for his local team in Willemstad and the
Antillean youth squad. His pace was his main technique on the pitch
and this formed the basics for his running career. In 1997 as a
newcomer he won the 100 metres and 200 metres during the Curaçao
Championships; he also won several other medals at other disciplines
during the games. Inspired by fellow Curaçao sportsman Andruw Jones,
Douglas ran his first international meeting in Puerto Rico and
impressed a delegation of the University of Texas. After finishing
his civil engineering study in Curaçao he made the move to Texas.
During a test race he ran the fastest time ever run over 100 metres
at the University and at the end of his first year he was named "All
American".
In 2000 Douglas was determined to achieve his
international breakthrough, but due to injuries this was set on
hold. He kept on fighting and eventually he qualified himself for
the 100 and 200 metres of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
representing the Netherlands Antilles. In the series of the 100
metres he did not finish due to a groin injury. He was unable to
recover from the injury before the start of the series for the 200
metres and had to cancel his participation. In his final year at the
University of Texas he won another two "All American" titles and
together with his 4 x 100 metres relay team he broke a 29 year old
University record.
In 2001 he became Dutch national champion
over 200 metres and he qualified himself for the World Championships
in Edmonton, where he reached the second round still representing
the Dutch Antilles. After his 2001 outdoor season he decided to
represent the Netherlands in the future and he defended his 200
metres national title straight away. He ran the qualification times
for the European Championships over 100 metres, 200 metres as well
as for the 4 x 100 metres relay team, but due to his nationality
switch he was not allowed to perform in international competitions
for a year.
The next mission of Douglas, together with
Patrick van Balkom, Timothy Beck and Troy
Douglas was to reach the 2003 World Championships in Athletics
in Paris with the 4 x 100 metres relay team. Despite missing the
national limit (after already having broken the international limit)
with only a few hundreds of a second the Dutch Athletics Association
(IAAF) decided to send the team to the World Championships anyways.
Douglas missed the series due to tootache and the team with Guus
Hoogmoed as his substitute ran a new Dutch record in 38.72 seconds.
In the semi finals Douglas felt fit enough to participate and the
record was broken again, to 38.63 this time. In the final, when they
ran to the fourth place they came to 38.87 seconds. Due to the
positive test of Dwain Chambers the British team that finished
second was disqualified and the Dutch were awarded the bronze medal.
With the same team he participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics,
but they were eliminated in the series due to a mistake at the
changing area between him and Van Balkom. In December 2004 he
graduated at the University of Texas for his Environmental Science
study. After this he moved to the Netherlands to settle himself
there and he did not participate in many athletics events that year.
In 2006 he achieved a silver medal at the Dutch national indoor
championships by finishing second behind Hoogmoed. Douglas became
Dutch national champion over 100 metres in 2006 and with a groin
injury he still participated in the European Championships in
Gothenburg where he disappointed in the individual events, but
managed to become eighth with the Dutch national 4 x 100 metres
relay team. Just days after the European Championships he had a
groin surgery.
After recovering from his injury he won the
silver medal over 100 metres and 200 metres in 2007 at the Dutch
National Championships. He was unable to qualify himself for the
World Championships in Osaka and he also failed to qualify for the
individual sprint events for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The 4 x 100
metres relay team together with team mates Maarten Heisen, Patrick
van Luijk and Guus Hoogmoed (Gregory Sedoc and Virgil Spier as
reserves) did qualify for the Olympics. Initially they finished in
17th position during the qualification process while only the first
16 teams would qualify, but due to the cancellation of the
Australian team they were allowed to start in Beijing. In their
qualification heat Heisen, Hoogmoed, Van Luijk and Douglas placed
third in behind Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, but in front of
Brazil. Their time of 38.87 was the fifth fastest out of all sixteen
participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the
final. In the final, the second baton change between Hoogmoed and
Van Luijk failed, resulting in a slow time. They still finished the
race to place seventh, before the disqualified Chinese team.
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