Janieve Russell

Janieve Russell
Janieve Russell in Rio de Janeiro 2016
nation	Jamaica
birthday	14th November 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Manchester Parish, Jamaica
size	175 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	53.46 s
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 3 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Glasgow 2014 4 × 400 m bronze Glasgow 2014 400 m hurdles gold Gold Coast 2018 400 m hurdles gold Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m  Junior World Championships bronze Moncton 2010 4 × 400 m gold Barcelona 2012 400 m hurdles silver Barcelona 2012 4 × 400 m
last change: March 25, 2019

Janieve Russell (born November 14, 1993 in Manchester Parish ) is a Jamaican hurdler who has specialized in the 400-meter distance and because of her sprinting strength also in the 4-by-400-meter relay and in the 400-meter Barrel is used. At the beginning of her career she was also active in high and long jump and heptathlon.

Athletic career

Janieve Russell gained her first international experience at the CARIFTA Games 2008 in Basseterre , where she won the silver medal in the long jump with 5.72 m and was victorious in the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 39.62 minutes . In the following year she won the games in Vieux Fort with 6.06 m in the long jump as well as with the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 meter relay and also secured the bronze medal in the high jump with 1.77 m . In the long jump, she then took part in the Youth World Championships in Brixen , where she was ninth with a width of 5.86 m. In addition, it was used with the sprint relay (1000 meters) in advance. In 2010 she won the pentathlon at the CARIFTA Games in George Town with 3825 points . At the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (CAC) in Santo Domingo she won in 3: 34.41 min with the 4 x 400 meter relay and won the silver medal in the 400 meter run in 53.68 seconds . Then she retired at the Junior World Championships in Moncton with 55.16 s in the semifinals and won the bronze medal with the relay in 3: 32.24 min. At the first ever Youth Olympic Games in Singapore , she came in seventh place with 5.83 m in the long jump. In 2011 she won 57.71 s for the first time in the hurdles at the CARIFTA Games in Montego Bay and was also victorious in the 4 x 400 meter relay. At the Pan American Junior Championships in Miramar , she won the silver medal in the heptathlon with 5352 points. In 2012 she won the CARIFTA Games in Hamilton in the hurdles and with the relay, while she had to be content with silver with 5.86 m in the long jump. She then won the 400 m hurdles at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona in 56.62 seconds and won the silver medal with the relay behind the team from the United States in 3: 32.97 minutes.

Two years later, she took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for the first time , where she won the bronze medal over 400 m hurdles in 55.64 seconds behind her compatriot Kaliese Spencer and Eilidh Child from Scotland. In addition, she contributed to the victory of the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay with a deployment in the run-up. In 2015 she qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she finished fifth with 54.65 s in the final . The following year she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was seventh in the final in 54.56 s . At the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas , she finished third in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 28.49 minutes. In 2018 she reached the final with the relay at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where they were disqualified. In April she took part again in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and won there in 54.33 s in the hurdles and in 3: 24.00 min with the relay. Then she won the silver medal behind the American Shamier Little at the NACAC Championships in Toronto in 53.81 s . In addition, at the end of the season she won the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava in 53.62 s.

In 2015 and 2018, Russell became the Jamaican champion in the 400-meter hurdles.

Personal bests

• 400 meters: 51.17 s, April 2, 2016 in Kingston
• 400 m hurdles: 53.46 s, July 5, 2018 in Lausanne
• High jump: 1.80 m, March 7, 2009 in Kingston
• Long jump: 6.20 m (−1.4 m / s), June 12, 2010 in Spanish Town
• Heptathlon: 5361 points: June 25, 2011 in Kingston

Web links

• Janieve Russell in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Janieve Russell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Steve Landells: Janieve Russell: I love hurdling because ... ( English ) IAAF. August 28, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2019.