Christine Amertil

Christine Amertil medal table
Sprinter
Bahamas
World championships
silver	2009 Berlin	4 × 100 m
Indoor world championships
silver	2003 Birmingham	400 m
bronze	2006 Moscow	400 m
Pan American Games
silver	2007 Rio de Janeiro	400 m

Christine Amertil (born August 18, 1979 in Nassau ) is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

She celebrated her first international success by winning the silver medal over 400 m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2003 in Birmingham . Before that, she was eliminated in the first qualifying round of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton .

At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 , she reached the semi-finals and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she finished seventh in the 400-meter run. After another semi-final participation at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , Amertil again showed its strength in indoor competitions. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Moscow in 2006 , she won the bronze medal over 400 m. In doing so, she set a personal indoor record with 50.34 seconds. In the same year she reached fourth place in the 400-meter run at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne .

A year later she won the silver medal over 400 m at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the World Athletics Championships in 2007 in Osaka and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, however, she was eliminated in the semifinals.

However, she celebrated the greatest success of her career so far with the Bahamian 4 x 100 meter relay . In the line-up of Sheniqua Ferguson , Chandra Sturrup , Christine Amertil and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie , the relay won the silver medal at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin with a time of 42.29 s.

Christine Amertil is 1.68 m tall and has a competition weight of 55 kg.

Top performances

Open air:

• 100 m : 11.47 s, April 22, 2006, Auburn, Alabama
• 200 m : 22.58 s, July 10, 2005, Nassau
• 400 m: 50.09 s, September 19, 2005, Yokohama

Hall:

• 60 m : 7.50 s, January 18, 2003, Blacksburg (Virginia)
• 200 m: 23.25 s, March 1, 2003, Blacksburg (Virginia)
• 400 m: 50.34 s, March 12, 2006, Moscow

Web links

• Christine Amertil in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christine Amertil in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )