Dominique Blake

Dominique Blake (born February 15, 1987 in Mount Vernon ) is a Jamaican 400-meter sprinter.

Born in the USA, she grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1999 she migrated to New York and later received an athletic scholarship from Pennsylvania State University . In 2006 she was banned for nine months because a doping test was positive for ephedrine .

At the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010 , she won the gold medal with the 4 x 400 meter relay of Jamaica. She also took part in the Commonwealth Games 2010 , where the season did not reach the finals. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2012 , she reached the semifinals and just missed the finals. She was nominated for the 2012 Olympics, but the Olympic elimination drug test was positive for methylhexanamine and she was banned for six years.

Web links

• Dominique Blake in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait of Dominique Blake at the Olympic team Jamaica (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dominique Blake gets six year ban for doping Reuters June 13, 2014
2. ↑ Mayagüez 2010 - Athletics - JAMAICA www.mayaguez2010.com 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 4x400m Relay Women Round 1 d2010results.thecgf.com October 11, 2010
4. ↑ Results IAAF World Indoor Championships 2012 IAAF March 10, 2012
5. ↑ Delegation to the Games of the XXX Olympiad Announced www.jamolympic.org July 9, 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Dominique Blake gets six year ban for doping Reuters June 13, 2014