Dahlia Duhaney

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Dahlia Duhaney medal table

Sprinter

JamaicaJamaica Jamaica
World championships
gold 1991 Tokyo 4 × 100 m
silver 1995 Gothenburg 4 × 100 m
Pan American Games
gold 1991 Havana 4 × 100 m
silver 1995 Mar del Plata 200 m

Dahlia Duhaney (born July 20, 1970 ) is a former Jamaican sprinter .

Internationally, she first appeared at the Pan American Games in Havana in 1991 , where she won the 4 x 100 meter relay and finished fourth in the 100 meter run . In the same year she celebrated the most important success of her career at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. As the starting runner of the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay, she and Juliet Cuthbert , Beverly McDonald and Merlene Ottey won the title in 41.94 seconds ahead of the teams from the Soviet Union (42.20 seconds) and Germany (42.33 seconds) s).

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona Duhaney could not achieve comparable results. With the relay, she did not reach the finish in the final and in the 100-meter run she was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Things went better for her the following year at the Universiade in Buffalo, where she won the title in the 100-meter run and the silver medal in the 200-meter run .

In 1994 Duhaney became the Jamaican 100-meter champion. At the Commonwealth Games in Victoria she reached the finals over 100 and 200 meters as well as with the relay, but did not make it onto the podium. In the following season she achieved her last international success. She was second in the 200-meter run at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata . At the World Championships in Gothenburg , she and her teammates Cuthbert, McDonald and Ottey won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay, this time only beaten by the US team.

Dahlia Duhaney is 1.68 m tall and had a competition weight of about 56 kg.

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