Rosemarie Whyte

Rosemarie Whyte
Rosemarie Whyte (2nd from right) 2009
nation	Jamaica
birthday	September 8, 1986
place of birth	Trelawny Parish
size	180 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	400 m , 4 × 400 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 2 × World championships 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing 4 × 400 m bronze 2012 London 4 × 400 m  World championships silver 2009 Berlin 4 × 400 m silver 2011 Daegu 4 × 400 m
last change: August 18, 2012

Rosemarie Whyte (born September 8, 1986 in Trelawny Parish ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

She attended Holmwood Technical High School and then studied at GC Foster College. She was trained by Maurice Wilson.

At the 2007 NACAC Championships in San Salvador , she won silver with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay and gold over 4 x 100 meters .

In 2008 she became the Jamaican champion in the 400 m run. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she finished seventh over this distance in an individual race. Together with Shericka Williams , Shereefa Lloyd and Novlene Williams , she won the bronze medal in the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay in a time of 3: 20.40 minutes.

At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she won the silver medal with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay in the same line-up as in Beijing the year before.

At the Diamond League meeting in London in 2011, she finished second over 400 meters in a new personal best of 49.84 s. A few weeks later, she retired from the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu in the semi-finals over 400 meters as third place with 50.90 s. With the 4 x 400 meter relay team, she won the silver medal together with Davita Prendergast , Novlene Williams-Mills and Shericka Williams in a time of 3: 18.71 minutes.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she reached the final run over 400 meters and finished eighth there with a time of 50.79 seconds. With the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay, she won her second Olympic silver medal.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 11.60 s, Kingston (Jamaica) , June 24, 2006
• 200 m: 22.74 s, Salamanca , Spain, July 8th 2009
• 400 m: 49.84 s, London , Great Britain, 6 August 2011

Web links

• Rosemarie Whyte in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile on London2012.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Whyte could spring another surprise  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jamaica Star, August 5, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2011.