Michelle Burgher

Michelle Burgher medal table
Sprinter
Jamaica
Olympic games
silver	2000 Sydney	4 × 400 m
bronze	2004 Athens	4 × 400 m
Pan American Games
silver	2003 Santo Domingo	4 × 400 m

Michelle Burgher (born March 12, 1977 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

She won two Olympic medals with the Jamaican 4-by-400-meter relay . When winning a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , however, it was only used in the qualifying round. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she won the bronze medal together with Novlene Williams , Nadia Davy and Sandie Richards .

Burgher also won the silver medal with the relay at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo . She gained further international success at the Central American and Caribbean Championships as winner in 2001 and runner-up in 2003 in the 400-meter run. At the CARIFTA Games in 1996, she won the 400-meter hurdles and took second place over 400 m.

Michelle Burgher studied at George Mason University and Clemson University .

Top performances

• 400 m (open air): 51.88 s, June 27, 2004, Kingston
• 400 m (hall): 52.94 s, February 13, 2004, Fayetteville
• 400 m elevation: 57.39 s, July 28, 2006, London

Web links

• Michelle Burgher in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jamaica Observer: The mile relay heroines ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), August 29, 2004