Ronetta Smith

Ronetta Smith medal table
Sprinter
Jamaica
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	2004 Athens	4 × 400 m
World championships
silver	2005 Helsinki	4 × 400 m
bronze	2003 Paris	4 × 400 m

Ronetta Smith (born May 2, 1980 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

She celebrated her greatest successes as a member of the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay . At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 , she won the bronze medal behind the teams from the United States and Russia together with Allison Beckford , Lorraine Fenton and Sandie Richards in 3: 22.92 min . In the 400-meter run, Smith reached the semi-finals in Paris, her best individual result at major international events.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she was a member of the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay, which won the bronze medal. Smith himself was only used in the qualifying round, in the final she was replaced by Novlene Williams .

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , the Jamaican relay team around Shericka Williams , Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton, as the seventh fastest team in the prelims, just barely qualified for the final. In the same line-up, she won the silver medal behind the superior Russian quartet with a time of 3: 23.29 minutes. Smith also started over 400 m in Helsinki, but failed in the heats.

Ronetta Smith is 1.72 m tall and has a competition weight of 60 kg.

Top performances

• 200 m : 23.25 s, April 14, 2001, Baton Rouge
• 400 m: 51.23 s, May 22, 2005, Carson (California)

Web links

• Ronetta Smith in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ronetta Smith in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )