Sparkle McKnight

Sparkle McKnight
nation	Trinidad and Tobago
birthday	21st December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Chaguanas , Trinidad and Tobago
size	168 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	55.15 s
society	MVP Track & Field Club
status	active
last change: March 28, 2019

Sparkle McKnight (born December 21, 1991 in Chaguanas ) is a hurdler from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Sparkle McKnight gained her first international experience at the CARIFTA Games 2006 in Les Abymes , where she finished sixth in the 300 meter hurdles in 45.76 seconds. She then won the bronze medal over the hurdles at the Central America and Caribbean Junior Championships (CAC) in Port of Spain in 43.36 s and the silver medal in the Trinidadian-Tobagian 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 47.28 min . The CARIFTA games in 2007 Providenciales she won in 43.65 s the silver medal in the 300-meter hurdles, was the 100-meter hurdles in 14.88 s Sixth and 56.80 s in the 400-meter dash Seventh . In 2008 she won the silver medal with the relay at the Games in Basseterre and was fifth in the hurdles in 64.47 s. The following year, she retired from the games in Vieux Fort in the preliminary run and was fourth in the season in 3: 48.38 min. Then she was at the Pan American Junior Championships in Port of Spain in 55.05 s sixth over 400 meters and in 66.00 s eighth over the hurdles. At the 2010 CARIFTA Games in George Town , she won over 400 meters and the silver medal with the relay. She then took fifth place over 400 meters at the CAC Junior Championships in 54.80 seconds and won the silver medal with the relay in 3: 48.49 minutes. At the Junior World Championships in Moncton , she retired with 55.01 s in the first round over 400 meters.

In 2012 she was fourth over 400 meters in 52.79 s at the U23 NACAC championships in San José and won the silver medal with the relay in 3: 33.03 min. The following year she won the relay in 3: 30.64 min at the CAC Championships in Morelia and qualified for the World Championships in Moscow . There she retired with 58.85 s in the hurdles as well as in 3: 33.50 min with the relay in the lead. In 2015 she took part in the Pan-American Games in Toronto , where she finished fifth in 57.30 seconds and finished seventh with the relay after 3: 33.31 minutes. She then won the silver medal behind the American Tiffany Williams at the NACAC Championships in San José in 55.41 seconds and was fifth in the relay in 3: 33.85 minutes. At the World Championships in Beijing she reached the semifinals , in which she was eliminated with 56.21 s. The following year she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was eliminated there with 56.80 s in the first round . In 2017 she reached the semi-finals again at the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated with 56.59 s.

In 2018 she first took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where she finished seventh in 57.45 s. At the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla she came in fifth place in 55.56 s and sixth at the NACAC Championships in Toronto in 56.33 s.

In 2013 and 2016, Tracey became the Jamaican champion in the 400 meter hurdles.

Personal bests

• 400 meters: 52.17 s, April 6, 2013 in Tempe
  • 400 meters (hall): 52.52 s, March 9, 2013 in Fayetteville
• 100 m hurdles: 14.43 s (−0.3 m / s), March 24, 2012 in El Paso
• 400 m hurdles: 55.15 s, April 10, 2018 in Gold Coast

Web links

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