Kerron Stewart

Kerron Stewart
Kerron Stewart 2007 in Osaka
nation	Jamaica
birthday	April 16, 1984
place of birth	Kingston
size	175 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 1 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 2008 Beijing 100 m bronze 2008 Beijing 200 m silver 2012 London 4 × 100 m  World championships silver 2007 Osaka 4 × 100 m silver 2009 Berlin 100 m gold 2009 Berlin 4 × 100 m silver 2011 Daegu 4 × 100 m  Commonwealth Games bronze 2014 Glasgow 100 m gold 2014 Glasgow 4 × 100 m
last change: August 3, 2014

Kerron Stewart (born April 16, 1984 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican sprinter .

In the Saint Catherine Parish raised Vice Youth Champion in 100-meter race of 2000 left their homeland at the Auburn University , the specialist adult education to study. Her sporting successes in the NCAA brought her the 2007 Honda Sports Award .

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was seventh over 100 meters and won the silver medal in the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, she and her compatriot Sherone Simpson finished second over 100 meters in 10.98 s and won the silver medal. For gold, she was two tenths of a second short of her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser . Over 200 meters she won bronze in Beijing in 22.00 s.

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she only had to admit defeat to her compatriot and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser over 100 meters in 10.75 s , but this time only by two hundredths of a second.

In 2011 she reached the finals over 100 meters at the World Championships in Daegu , where she finished sixth with a time of 11.15 s. In the final run over 200 meters she came in fifth place in 22.70 seconds. Together with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sherone Simpson and Veronica Campbell-Brown , she won the silver medal at these world championships in the 4 x 100 meter relay competition with a time of 41.70 s. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 she again reached the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Fraser-Pryce, Campbell-Brown and Simpson with a time of 41.41 s.

Web links

Commons : Kerron Stewart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kerron Stewart in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the Auburn Tigers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports Illustrated : Eye of the tiger: Auburn's Kerron Stewart wins the Honda Award ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). June 14, 2007
2. ^ London 2012 official website