Shericka Williams

Shericka Williams
Shericka Williams 2009 in Berlin
nation	Jamaica
birthday	17th September 1985
place of birth	Black River
size	167 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	400 m , 4 × 400 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 1 × World championships 0 × 5 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2012 London 4 × 400 m silver 2008 Beijing 400 m bronze 2008 Beijing 4 × 400 m  World championships silver 2011 Daegu 4 × 400 m silver 2009 Berlin 400 m silver 2009 Berlin 4 × 400 m silver 2007 Osaka 4 × 400 m silver 2005 Helsinki 4 × 400 m
last change: August 14, 2012

Shericka Williams (born September 17, 1985 in Black River ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and in Osaka in 2007 , she won a silver medal with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay , but was eliminated in the individual competition in the semifinals. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she was fifth.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 she won the 400 meters with her personal best of 49.69 s, the silver medal behind Christine Ohuruogu (GBR) and ahead of Sanya Richards (USA) and the bronze medal with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meters -Season.

At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 , she won the silver medal and another silver medal with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay in a new personal best of 49.32 seconds.

In 2011 she reached the final over 400 meters at the World Championships in Daegu , where she finished sixth with a time of 50.79 s. With the 4 x 400 meter relay team, she won the silver medal together with Rosemarie Whyte , Davita Prendergast and Novlene Williams-Mills in a time of 3: 18.71 minutes.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won silver with the Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay team.

Shericka Williams is 1.67 m tall and weighs 54 kg. She grew up in the Whitehall district of Saint Elizabeth Parish , attended St. Elizabeth Technical High School and studied at the University of Technology (UTech) in Kingston . She is in a relationship with cricket player Jerome Taylor.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 11.34 s, Belgrade , May 29, 2007
• 200 m: 22.50 s, Rieti , September 7, 2008
• 400 m: 49.32 s, Berlin , August 18, 2009

Web links

Commons : Shericka Williams  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shericka Williams in the database of World Athletics (English)
• A Diamond in the Rough , Article by Laurie Foster on the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association website , April 30, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athlete portrait on London2012.com ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.