Michael Frater

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Medal record
Men's Athletics
Competitor for Jamaica
World Championships
Silver	2005 Helsinki	100 metres
Pan American Games
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo	100 metres

Michael Frater (born October 6, 1982 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a Jamaican sprinter.

Frater was knocked out in the semi-finals of the 100m sprint at the 2004 Athens Olympics. A year later, in the 2005 World Championships, he won the silver medal in the 100 Metres with 10.05. He was disqualified in the semi-finals of the 100m sprint because of a false start at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

His personal best of 10.03 was set in Athens on June 14, 2005.

In a record breaking day highlighted by Veronica Campbell's emphatic victory in the female 100 meters in a world leading time of 10.89 Micheal Frater missed out on the road to Osaka Japan when he clocked a less than impressive 10.46. Fraters only chance was left up to the final semi-final of the day but the exploits of school boy senstion Yohan Blake (10.19) pushed Nester Carter to run a blistering 10.17 thus making the third heat the fastest heat of the day. This meant that the world championships silver medalist was out of the finals and as a result would not be on the Jamaican team to Osaka this summer.

Frater equaled his Personal Best on 9/9/2007 at the Rieti Grand Prix in Italy. It is interesting to note that Frater has finished second to Asafa Powell in three of Powell's sub-9.80 runs.