LaVerne Jones-Ferrette
LaVerne Jones-Ferrette (born LaVerne Janet Jones ; born September 16, 1981 on Saint Croix ) is a sprinter from the US Virgin Islands .
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she reached the quarter-finals over 100 and 200 meters . The following year, she came at the World Championships in Helsinki over 100 meters in the quarter-finals and over 200 meters in the semi-finals. In 2006 she won the silver medal over 100 meters at the Central America and Caribbean Games.
After another semi-finals over 200 meters at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she ran again over the two shorter sprint distances into the quarter finals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
In 2009 she reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Berlin over 200 meters and was seventh in the athletics world finals over 100 and 200 meters.
In the 2010 indoor season she caused a sensation when she ran over 60 meters, initially the fastest time in two years and then the fastest since the turn of the millennium. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha , she finished second, but was subsequently disqualified because the banned substance clomiphene was discovered during an unannounced training check a month earlier . Clomiphene is used as a drug to treat women who want to have children (Jones-Ferrette became pregnant shortly after the World Indoor Championships), but it can also be used for doping purposes. In addition to the disqualification, a six-month ban was imposed.
LaVerne Jones-Ferrette lives in Houston and is trained by her husband Stephen Ferrette.
Personal bests
All times are records for the US Virgin Islands
- 60 m (hall): 6.97 s, February 6, 2010, Stuttgart
- 100 m: 11.13 s, June 1st 2009, Hengelo
- 200 m: 22.46 s, June 1st 2009, Hengelo
- Hall: 23.16s, March 14, 2003, Fayetteville
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400 m : 51.47 s, April 21, 2007, Lawrence
- Hall: 51.60 s, February 3, 2007, Stuttgart
Web links
- LaVerne Jones-Ferrette in the database of World Athletics (English)
- LaVerne Jones-Ferrette in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Jones-Ferrette dashes 7.09, seven world leads in Karlsruhe ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). January 31, 2010
- ^ IAAF: Jones-Ferrette shocks with 6.97 dash in Stuttgart ( Memento of February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). February 7, 2010
- ↑ Athletics Weekly: Laverne Jones-Ferrette stripped of world indoor medal after positive test ( Memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). December 16, 2010
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Laverne Jones-Ferrette blocked . December 19, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones-Ferrette, LaVerne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, LaVerne Janet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sprinter (US Virgin Islands) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Croix |