Dennis Anthony Blake is a retired male sprinter

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

 from Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. He is a two-time Olympian, winning the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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, where he ran in the qualifying heats.

Blake also claimed a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games

1995 Pan American Games

The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from March 12 to March 26, 1995. After 44 years, this was the Pan American Games first return to the country that hosted the first Games, in 1951.-Overview:...

 in Mar del Plata, Argentina in the men's 4x400 metres relay, alongside Orville Taylor

Orville Taylor

Orville Taylor is a retired male sprinter from Jamaica. He claimed a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina in the men's 4x400 metres relay, alongside Dennis Blake, Roxbert Martin, and Michael McDonald...

, Roxbert Martin

Roxbert Martin

Roxbert Martin is a former Jamaican 400 metres runner, who was selected for the Jamaican 4x400 metres relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal...

, and Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald (athlete)

Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...

. Blake set his personal best in the men's 400 metres (45.68) on 2000-06-18 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Blake is currently coaching track at Edgemont High School

Edgemont High School

Edgemont Junior - Senior High School is a high school in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, serving students in grades 7 -12. Its feeder schools are Greenville School and Seely Place School, where students graduate in the sixth grade...

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