Ya karya rikodin zakarun a shekara mai zuwa a
Gasar CAC ta 2009, wanda ya samu a wasan kusa da na karshe. Koyaya, Dayron Robles wanda ya yi nasara a gasar Olympics ya doke shi a wasan karshe. A Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya ta 2009 a Wasannin motsa jiki, ba Robles ko zakaran zakaran duniya Liu Xiang sun kasance a wasan karshe ba saboda sun janye saboda rauni. Brathwaite ya yi amfani da wannan, ya kafa sabon mafi kyau na 13.18 a wasan kusa da na karshe, kuma ya inganta zuwa 13.14 don lashe zinare kuma ya zama zakaran duniya na 2009. Yana da shekaru 21, shi ne mafi ƙanƙanta a duk lokacin da ya lashe gasar. Bayan lambar zinare, ya ci nasara a taron Tunawa da Van Damme kuma ya rufe shekara mai nasara tare da wata zinare a gasar IAAF ta Duniya ta 2009.