Kenya Sinclair

Sinclair (left) at the 2009 World Championships

Kenya Sinclair medal table
Middle distance runner
Jamaica Jamaica
Indoor world championships
silver	2006 Moscow	800 m
Commonwealth Games
silver	2006 Melbourne	800 m

Kenya Sinclair (born July 14, 1980 ) is a Jamaican middle-distance runner who is particularly successful in the 800-meter run .

Career

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she was third in the 800-meter semifinals, but just missed qualifying for the final run with a time of 1: 59.45 minutes. In March 2006 she won the silver medal over 800 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow . Less than two weeks later she won another silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a time of 1: 58.16 minutes over the same distance. In 2007 she was eliminated from the semi-finals at the World Championships in Osaka , where she was fifth with 2: 00.25 minutes.

At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 she reached the 800 meter final and came in sixth with a time of 1: 58.24 minutes.

In 2009 she did not get past the semi-finals at the World Championships in Berlin for the third time at a World Cup. In 2010 she finished second in the Athletics Continental Cup in Split in 1: 58.16 minutes. In 2011 she reached a World Cup final for the first time in her fourth World Cup participation at the World Championships in Daegu , where she finished seventh in a time of 1: 58.66 minutes.

She is multiple Jamaican champion in the 800 meter run and holds the Jamaican record over this distance with 1: 57.88 minutes (as of June 2011). At the 2011 Jamaican Championships, she won not only the 800 meters, but also the 1500 meters .

Personal bests

800 meters: 1: 57.88 minutes, July 21, 2006, Rethymno , Greece
1500 meters: 4: 05.56 minutes, Carson (California) , USA

Web links

Commons : Kenya Sinclair - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kenya Sinclair in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

^ Sinclair setting the pace in distance running , Jamaica Gleaner, June 26, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
↑ Sinclair completes 800m / 1500m double in Kingston - Jamaican Champs, Day 3 ( September 14, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), by Anthony Foster, IAAF News, June 26, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Sinclair, Kenya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jamaican athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1980

[1] Sinclair setting the pace in distance running , Jamaica Gleaner, June 26, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.

[2] Sinclair completes 800m / 1500m double in Kingston - Jamaican Champs, Day 3 ( September 14, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), by Anthony Foster, IAAF News, June 26, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.