Chelsea Hammond
Chelsea Hammond (born August 2, 1983 in New York City ) is a Jamaican athlete . She specializes in the long jump .
Life
Chelsea Hammond attended Elmont Memorial High School in Elmont , Nassau County , Long Island . She then graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia with a degree in sociology . It is sponsored by Puma . She has been trained by Raina Rider since 2009. Her trainer at the University of South Carolina was Delethea Quarles.
successes
In the trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics , she was second behind the Jamaican and Central American-Caribbean record holder Elva Goulbourne . Chelsea Hammond won the Jamaican long jump championship for the first time in 2007. With 6.87 m in the last jump she left Elva Goulbourne behind in Kingston . In 2008 she was able to defend her national title with 6.61 m in front of Jovanee Jarrett . In May 2008, Chelsea Hammond finished third at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in Doha with 6.69 m. As a Jamaican champion, she was able to take part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . In the qualification she qualified with 6.60 m for the final, in which she finished fourth with her personal best of 6.79 m. In January 2017, the second-placed Tatjana Lebedewa was subsequently convicted of doping and disqualified, so that Chelsea Hammond was awarded a bronze medal.
Personal best
open air
- Long jump: 6.79 m on August 22, 2008 in Beijing (at her 6.87 m at the 2007 Jamaican Championship, she had 2.2 m / s tailwind)
-
Heptathlon : 5405 points on April 8, 2004 in Knoxville (Tennessee)
- 100 meter hurdles : 14.05 s on May 13, 2004 in Oxford (Mississippi)
- High jump : 1.81 m in 2005
- Shot put : 10.81 m on May 9, 2002 in Starkville, Mississippi
- 200-meter run : 24.71 s on April 7, 2004 in Knoxville
- Javelin throw : 25.99 m on May 14, 2004 in Oxford
- 800 meter run : 2: 24.17 min on April 8, 2004 in Knoxville
Hall
- Long jump: 6.52 m on June 14, 2006 in Blacksburg (Virginia)
-
Pentathlon : 4144 points on March 13, 2004 in Fayetteville (Arkansas)
- 60-meter hurdles: 8.45 s on March 11, 2006 in Fayetteville
- High jump: 1.79 m on January 31, 2004 in Chapel Hill (North Carolina)
- Shot put: 11.49 m on February 27, 2004 in Lexington (Kentucky)
- 800 meter run: 2: 27.30 min on March 11, 2006 in Fayetteville
- 60-meter run : 7.61 s on January 26, 2007 in Baton Rouge (Louisiana)
- 55-meter hurdles: 8.03 s on February 24, 2006 in Gainesville (Florida)
Web links
- Chelsea Hammond in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Chelsea Hammond in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ February 8th is also often mentioned.
- ↑ Meet Chelsea Hammond ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article by Anthony Foster from June 23, 2007 in The Jamaica Star
- ↑ Results of the women of the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2008 (English)
- ↑ biography on the website of Gamecock Athletics South Carolina (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hammond, Chelsea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |