Carmelita Jeter

Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter 2011 in Daegu
nation	United States
birthday	November 24, 1979
place of birth	los Angeles
size	163 cm
Weight	53 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.64 s ( 100 m ) 22.11 s ( 200 m )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 3 × 1 × 3 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 4 × 100 m silver London 2012 100 m bronze London 2012 200 m  World championships gold Osaka 2007 4 × 100 m bronze Osaka 2007 100 m bronze Berlin 2009 100 m gold Daegu 2011 100 m gold Daegu 2011 4 × 100 m silver Daegu 2011 200 m bronze Moscow 2013 100 m  Indoor world championships silver Doha 2010 60 m
last change: August 30, 2013

Carmelita Jeter (born November 24, 1979 in Los Angeles ) is an American athlete. She starts on the sprint distances .

She celebrated the first major success of her career when she won the bronze medal in the 100 meter run at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . She reached the goal in a new personal best of 11.02 seconds behind the Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown and her compatriot Lauryn Williams . At the 2007 World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart , she won over 100 meters in 11.10 seconds. In the following year she reached fourth place over 100 meters and fifth over 200 meters.

At the US Championships in Eugene in 2009 , she won the title in the 100-meter run. Her winning time of 10.78 s and her result of 10.72 s from the semi-final round, however, were not included in the leaderboards due to an impermissible tailwind. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , she won the bronze medal over 100 meters in 10.90 seconds, just like two years earlier. A month later she set a new personal best at the World Athletics Finals in Thessaloniki . With her time of 10.67 s she placed third in the all-time world best list. Just a week later, she improved by another three hundredths of a second at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix to 10.64 s and second on the best list.

She opened the 2010 season by winning the bronze medal in the 60-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Doha . In 2011 Jeter won the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, over 100 meters in 10.90 s. Over the same distance, she won the silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She also won the bronze medal over 200 meters. She completed her collection of medals with an Olympic success in the 4 x 100 meter relay competition. In doing so, she and her compatriots improved the 27-year-old world record.

Carmelita Jeter is 1.63 m tall and has a competition weight of 53 kg.

Top performances

• Open air:
  • 100 m: 10.64 s, September 20, 2009, Shanghai
  • 200 m : 22.11 s, June 30, 2012, Eugene
• Hall:
  • 60 m : 7.02 s, February 28, 2010, Albuquerque

Web links

Commons : Carmelita Jeter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carmelita Jeter in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Carmelita Jeter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete profile Carmelita Jeter on the website of the US athletics federation USATF (English)
• Official Website of Carmelita Jeter (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Mike Rodgers and Carmelita Jeter fastest , June 27, 2009
2. ↑ Leichtathletik-de: Usain Bolt & Co say goodbye to the world finals , September 13, 2009
3. ^ IAAF: Gay 9.69 and Jeter 10.64 at 100m; Liu Xiang makes dazzling comeback - Shanghai Golden Grand Prix ( memento from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , September 20, 2009
4. ↑ HDsports.at: Gold hat trick for Great Britain & heptathlon scandal . 4th August 2012
5. ↑ Profile of Carmelita Jeter. (No longer available online.) London2012.com, archived from the original on July 30, 2012 ; accessed on August 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ HDsports.at: US women's relay sprints to world record! , August 10, 2012