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G. C. Foster
Gerald Claude Eugene Foster (30 November 1885 – 25 February 1966), best known as G. C. Foster, was a Jamaican sportsman who excelled at sprinting, cricket, and tennis, and later became a well-known athletics coach and cricket umpire.
Born in Spanish Town, Foster was educated in Kingston, and participated in organised sport from an early age. Aged 19, he set a national record for the 100-yard dash, becoming recognised as one of Jamaica's top sprinters. Foster unsuccessfully attempted to participate at the 1908 Summer Olympics, and subsequently defeated several competitors at post-games meetings. On return to Jamaica, he concentrated more on cricket, playing irregularly at level until the mid-1920s. Foster would go on to become one of Jamaica's foremost athletics coaches, helping to train athletes for both the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games. He died in 1966, with Jamaica's principal sporting college, the G. C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, later being named after him.
==Early life and athletics career==
Born in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine Parish, Foster attended Wolmer's Boys' School in Kingston, where organised sport was an essential part of the school curriculum. He was very physically active from an early age, regularly hiking, cycling, and swimming across the Kingston Harbour.〔(The Background of Gerald Claude Foster ) – G.C. Foster College. Retrieved 10 January 2013.〕 At the age of 14, Foster raced Kingston's leading sprinter, M. L. Ford, in the 100-yard dash, with a 10-yard handicap, and won by three yards. In 1904, at the age of 18, he was timed as having run the same race in 10 seconds, comparably favourably to the existing world record of 9.8 seconds. At Jamaica's first open track and field competition, held at the Kensington Cricket Club in 1906, Foster won both the 100-yard and 220-yard events, and went on to establish a Jamaican record in the 1908 championships. He later lowered his record time to 9.7 seconds, close to the then-world record of 9.6 seconds held by D. J. Kelly.〔Bertram, Arnold (2012). (Jamaica's road to the Olympic Games (Pt I) ) – ''Jamaica Gleaner''. Published 4 February 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.〕
By the lead-up to the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London, Foster was considered one of the top sprinters in the world, along with Reggie Walker, Robert Kerr, and James Rector. He booked passage to England on a banana boat, but on arrival was told that he could not compete in the games, as Jamaica was not affiliated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).〔Jamaica Olympic Association was not created until 1936.〔(Jamaica ) – International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 January 2013.〕 Despite being unable to participate, Foster remained in England during the Olympics, having been persuaded to stay by British athletics coach Harry Andrews. There were ten athletics meetings held in Britain and Ireland after the Olympics, most of them featuring Olympic competitors. Foster would defeat several of these leading sprinters, including John Morton, A. J. Northridge, and Patrick Roche, the Irish national champion.〔
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