Peta-Gaye Dowdie

Peta-Gaye Dowdie medal table
Sprinter
Jamaica
World championships
bronze	1999 Seville	4 × 100 m
Commonwealth Games
gold	2006 Melbourne	4 × 100 m
Pan American Games
gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	4 × 100 m
gold	1999 Winnipeg	4 × 100 m
bronze	1999 Winnipeg	100 m
ZA and Caribbean Championships
bronze	2005 Nassau	200 m

Peta-Gaye Dowdie (born January 18, 1977 in Saint Elizabeth Parish ) is a Jamaican sprinter .

The international breakthrough came for the two-time Jamaican champion in the 100-meter run in 1999 at the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg . There she won the title with the 4 x 100 meter relay and took third place over 100 m. A few weeks later she celebrated the most important success of her career at the World Athletics Championships in Seville . As the final runner, she led the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay together with Aleen Bailey , Merlene Frazer and Beverly McDonald to the bronze medal in 42.15 s behind the teams of the Bahamas (41.92 s) and France (42.06 s ). Dowdie started in Seville in the 100-meter run, but was eliminated here in the quarter-finals.

In 2005 she was third in the 200-meter run at the Central American and Caribbean Championships . She achieved further success in the season with victories at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 and at the Pan American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro . In Melbourne, she narrowly missed the finals over 100 m as fourth of her semi-final run.

Peta-Gaye Dowdie is 1.70 m tall and has a competition weight of 61 kg. She attended Louisiana State University .

Top performances

• 100 m: 11.03 s, April 10, 1999, El Paso
• 200 m: 22.51 s, 3rd June 2000, Durham
• 60 m (hall): 7.23 s, February 6, 1999, Blacksburg

Web links

• Peta-Gaye Dowdie in the database of World Athletics (English)