Shashalee Forbes

Shashalee Forbes

nation

Jamaica

birthday

10th May 1996 (age 24)

place of birth

Middlesex , Jamaica

size

160 cm

Weight

55 kg

Career

discipline

sprint

society

Sprint Tech Track Club

status

active

Medal table

Olympic games
silver	Rio de Janeiro 2016	4 × 100 m
World championships
bronze	London 2017	4 × 100 m
Central America and Caribbean Games
gold	Barranquilla 2018	200 m
Universiade
gold	Taipei 2017	100 m

last change: October 16, 2019

Shashalee Forbes (also Sashalee Forbes ; born May 10, 1996 in Middlesex ) is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100-meter run and the 200-meter run . She took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she won silver in the 4 x 100 meter relay .

Athletic career

Shashalee Forbes took the Hayward Field in Eugene at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics and won together with Saqukine Cameron , Kedisha Dallas and Natalliah Whyte behind the United States silver in the 4 x 100-meter relay . She was appointed by the Jamaica Olympic Association as a member of the Jamaican 4-by-100-meter relay. While she was not used in the final, she won her preliminary run together with Veronica Campbell-Brown , Simone Facey and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and qualified for the final. In the finals she was won by Elaine Thompson and the relay sprinted to silver.

In 2017 she took part in both the 2017 World Championships at the London Stadium and the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei . At the World Championships, she started in the 200-meter run and was eliminated in the semi-finals in 13th place. She was also used in the relay , where she was allowed to start both in the preliminary run and in the final run. In the best time of the season, she sprinted to bronze with Simone Facey , Jura Levy and Natasha Morrison behind the United States and the United Kingdom. At the Universiade , she started in the 100-meter run and won the gold medal in front of Irene Siragusa from Italy and Salomé Kora from Switzerland. In 2018 she reached the final of the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast over 200 meters and was disqualified there. At the beginning of August she won the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla in 22.80 s. At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , she finished second behind the United States with a 4-by-100-meter relay in 43.29 s, and at the Pan American Games in Lima , she finished fifth with the relay in 43.74 s. Over 200 meters she also qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 23.14 seconds .

In 2017 she became the Jamaican champion in the 200-meter run.

Shashalee Forbes in the database of World Athletics (English)
Shashalee Forbes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )