Sheri-Ann Brooks

Sheri-Ann Brooks
Sheri-Ann Brooks 2007
nation	Jamaica
birthday	February 11, 1983
place of birth	Kingston
size	168 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 2 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships silver 2007 Osaka 4 × 100 m  Commonwealth Games gold 2006 Melbourne 100 m gold 2006 Melbourne 4 × 100 m  Pan American Games silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro 200 m gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro 4 × 100 m
last change: August 17, 2012

Sheri-Ann Brooks (born February 11, 1983 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican sprinter .

She won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, both over 100 meters and in the 4 x 100 meter relay .

In 2007 she also secured the gold medal with the relay at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro . Over 200 meters , she took second place. In the same year she won the silver medal together with Kerron Stewart , Simone Facey and Veronica Campbell-Brown at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka as the starting runner in the 4 x 100 meter relay . There she started in the 100-meter run, but retired with a time of 11.21 s in the semi-final round.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she ran in the 4 x 100 meter relay of Jamaica, which qualified in 42.24 s as the fastest team in the preliminary round for the final. Brooks was not used in the final, the Jamaican season was eliminated due to a substitution error.

In 2009 Brooks was tested positive for the banned stimulant methylxanthine in the A-sample at the Jamaican championships and was then removed from the list for the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin by the Jamaican Association . Due to a formal error when opening the B sample, however, she had to be acquitted and her right to start at the World Championships was returned.

Sheri-Ann Brooks is 1.68 m tall and has a competition weight of 55 kg.

Top performances

• 100 m: 11.05 s, 23 June 2007, Kingston
• 200 m: 22.70 s, May 25, 2008, Belém
• 400 m: 53.95 s, April 15, 2006, Coral Gables
• 60 m (hall): 7.14 s, March 14, 2010, Doha

Web links

• Sheri-Ann Brooks in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Sprinter Sheri-Ann Brooks acquitted , August 6, 2009