Jessica Beard

Jessica Beard
nation	United States
birthday	January 8, 1989
place of birth	Euclid
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	22.81 s ( 200 m ) 50.56 s ( 400 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 2 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships gold Berlin 2009 4 × 400 m gold Daegu 2011 4 × 400 m silver Moscow 2013 4 × 400 m  Junior World Championships gold Beijing 2006 4 × 400 m gold Bydgoszcz 2008 4 × 400 m silver Bydgoszcz 2008 400 m

Jessica Beard (born January 8, 1989 in Euclid , Ohio ) is an American sprinter .

At the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006 , she finished fifth in the 400-meter run and won the 4-by-400-meter relay . At the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Bydgoszcz , she won the silver medal over 400 meters and managed to defend her title with the relay.

Her first international assignment in the adult sector came at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin . She was a member of the US 4 x 400 meter relay, which won the gold medal. Beard himself was only used in the qualifying round. In the 400-meter run she reached the semi-finals in Berlin.

Jessica Beard starts at Texas A&M University and is studying psychology there.

Top performances

• 200 m : 22.81 s, April 11, 2013, Coral Gables
• 400 m: 50.56 s, June 13, 2009, Fayetteville

Web links

• Jessica Beard in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Short biography of Jessica Beard on the Texas A&M University website ( May 13, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive )