Levern Spencer

Levern Spencer
Levern Spencer
Full name	Levern Donaline Spencer
nation	St. Lucia
birthday	23rd June 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Castries , St. Lucia
size	179 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.98 m
Trainer	Petros Kyprianou
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 2 × Pan American Games 2 × 0 × 1 × Central America and Caribbean Games 3 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze New Delhi 2010 1.88 m bronze Glasgow 2014 1.92 m gold Gold Coast 2018 1.95 m  Pan American Games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2007 1.87 m gold Toronto 2015 1.94 m gold Lima 2019 1.87 m Central America and Caribbean Games bronze Cartagena 2006 1.88 m gold Mayagüez 2010 1.94 m gold Xalapa 2014 1.89 m gold Barranquilla 2018 1.90 m  Youth World Championships bronze Debrecen 2001 1.81 m
last change: August 21, 2019

Levern Donaline Spencer (born June 23, 1984 in Castries ) is a Lucian high jumper .

Athletic career

Levern Spencer gained her first international experience at the 1999 CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France , where she took tenth place with 1.55 m. The following year she won the bronze medal at the games in St. George’s with a jump of 1.73 m. Then she finished fourth at the Central America and Caribbean Junior Championships (CAC) in San Juan with 1.67 m. In 2001 she won the CARIFTA Games in Bridgetown with 1.79 m and won the bronze medal at the Youth World Championships in Debrecen with 1.81 m. Then she won with 1.80 m at the CAC championships in Guatemala City . The following year she won the silver medal at the CARIFTA Games in Nassau with 1.82 m and then won the CAC Junior Championships in Bridgetown with 1.81 m. Then she was at the Junior World Championships in Kingston with 1.83 m eighth and at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with 1.74 m twelfth. In 2003 she won the silver medal again at the CARIFTA Games in Port of Spain with 1.83 m and was eliminated in the first round of the 100-meter run . She also won silver at the Pan American Junior Championships in Bridgetown with 1.83 m. At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo , she finished fifth with a height of 1.83 m. The following year, he won the silver medal with 1.85 m at the U23 NACAC Championships in Sherbrooke .

In 2005 she won gold again at the CAC Championships in Nassau with 1.94 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Helsinki with 1.84 m. The following year she was fifth at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with 1.83 m and at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Cartagena , she won the bronze medal behind the Dominican Juana Rosario Arrendel and Caterine Ibargüen from Colombia with 1.88 m . She also won the U23 NACAC championships in Santo Domingo with 1.81 m. The following year she won the NACAC championships in San Salvador with 1.89 m and won bronze at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro behind the Mexican Romary Rifka and Nicole Forrester from Canada. At the World Championships in Osaka with 1.90 m on the 15th place. In 2008 she defended her title at the CAC Championships in Cali with 1.91 m, but did not get beyond the preliminary round at the Olympic Games in Beijing . In 2009 she won her fourth title at the CAC Championships in Havana with 1.91 m and failed at the World Championships in Berlin with 1.89 m in qualification.

In 2010 she won the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez with 1.94 m and was third in the Athletics Continental Cup in Split and at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi behind the Canadian Forrester and Sheree Francis from Jamaica. The following year she won again with 1.82 m at the CAC Championships in Mayagüez, retired at the World Championships in Daegu with 1.92 m in the preliminary round and was seventh at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with 1.81 m. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2012 in Istanbul , she was eliminated with 1.88 m in qualification, as well as at the Olympic Games in London with 1.90 m . In 2013 she won her sixth title at the CAC Championships in Morelia and was eleventh at the World Championships in Moscow with 1.89 m. In 2014 she finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot with 1.94 m and won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow behind Australian Eleanor Patterson and Isobel Pooley from England. She was also fifth at the Continental Cup in Marrakech and defended her title at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Xalapa with a height of 1.89 m.

In 2015 she won the Pan American Games in Toronto with 1.94 m and the NACAC Championships in San José with 1.91 m . In addition, she finished twelfth in the finals at the World Championships in Beijing with 1.88 m . The following year, she finished fifth with a jump of 1.93 m at the World Indoor Championships in Portland and sixth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with the same height in the final . In 2017 she was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in London with a height of 1.89 m . In 2018 she was tenth at the World Championships in 1.84 m and won the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast with 1.95 m . She won other gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla with 1.90 m and 1.91 m at the NACAC Championships in Toronto. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , she won the gold medal with a crossed 1.87 m.

Spencer graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in health promotion and behavior .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.98 m, May 8, 2010 in Athens ( Lucian record )
  • Hall: 1.95 m, March 7, 2014, Sopot ( Lucian record )

Web links

Commons : Levern Spencer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Levern Spencer in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Levern Spencer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Steve Landells: High and low - Levern Spencer ( English ) IAAF. June 13, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
• Steve Landells: First impressions - Levern Spencer ( English ) IAAF. September 26, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Spencer wins third CAC Games high jump title, Walcott his first ( English ) IAAF. August 3, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
2. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Spencer completes hat-trick as eight records are set on the first day of NACAC Championships ( English ) IAAF. August 11, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.