LaTasha Jenkins

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LaTasha Jenkins medal table

200 meter run

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World championships
silver 2001 Edmonton 200 meter relay
Indoor world championships
silver 2001 Lisbon 200 meter relay

LaTasha Jenkins (born December 19, 1977 in Chicago ) is a former American athlete whose specialty was the 200-meter run .

Sporting successes

Jenkins celebrated her greatest sporting success at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton . Originally in fourth place with her time of 22.85 s, Jenkins was awarded the silver medal after the subsequent disqualification of Marion Jones and Kelli White for doping . In the final standings she was behind Debbie Ferguson (22.52 s) from the Bahamas .

Together with Ferguson, Jenkins was also world best of the year in 2001 in the 200-meter run.

In the same year Jenkins also won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in a personal best indoor time (22.96 s), although she only had to admit defeat to the Jamaican Juliet Campbell (22.64 s).

Together with LaTasha Colander , Nanceen Perry and Marion Jones , Jenkins has been the world record holder in the non-Olympic 4 x 200 meter relay (1: 27.46 min) since April 2000.

Doping allegation

In 2006 she was tested positive for nandrolone during a doping control in Belgium and was banned. The ban had to be lifted in 2007 because A and B samples were analyzed in two different laboratories with different test methods, although both were found to be nandrolone.

Best times

Others

With a height of 1.70 m, her competition weight was 55 kg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. USADA v. LaTasha Jenkins usada.org January 25, 2008
  2. Article at reuters.com
  3. IAAF athlete profile