Stephenie Ann McPherson

Stephenie Ann McPherson
Stephenie Ann McPherson in Doha 2015
nation	Jamaica
birthday	25th November 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Georges Plain , Jamaica
size	173 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	MVP Track Club
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 2 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 3 × 0 × 1 × Pan American Games 0 × 0 × 1 × IAAF World Relays 0 × 1 × 2 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 400 m  World championships bronze Moscow 2013 400 m gold Beijing 2015 4 × 400 m bronze Doha 2019 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships silver Sopot 2014 4 × 400 m  Commonwealth Games gold Glasgow 2014 400 m gold Glasgow 2014 4 × 400 m gold Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m bronze Gold Coast 2018 400 m  Pan American Games bronze Lima 2019 4 × 400 m  IAAF World Relays silver Nassau 2015 4 × 400 m bronze Nassau 2017 4 × 400 m bronze Yokohama 2019 4 × 200 m
last change: October 11, 2019

Stephenie Ann McPherson (born November 25, 1988 in Georges Plain ) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Stephenie Ann McPherson gained his first international experience at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , where she won the bronze medal with 49.99 seconds behind the British Christine Ohuruogu and Amantle Montsho from Botswana. She originally reached fourth place, but received the medal after a doping disqualification from Russian Antonina Kriwoschapka . In the following year he took part in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the indoor championships in Sopot and won the silver medal behind the Americans in 3: 26.54 minutes. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , Scotland , she won the individual competition in 50.67 seconds and the Jamaican 4 × 400 relay in 3: 23.82 minutes. She also won the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech with the America relay in 3: 20.93 minutes. At the IAAF World Relays 2015 in the Bahamas , the Jamaicans came in second. She again took part in the World Championships in Beijing and finished fifth in the individual competition with 50.42 s in the final . In addition, she won the gold medal with the relay in 3: 19.13 minutes.

In 2016 she was fourth in the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 52.20 s and did not finish with the relay. In addition, she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the first time and reached sixth place in the final with 50.97 seconds . Furthermore, she won the silver medal behind the team from the United States with the Jamaican relay in 3: 20.34 minutes. At the IAAF World Relays 2017 she finished third and qualified again for the World Championships in London . There she came in 50.86 s in the final again in sixth place and was used with the relay in the run-up . At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she was disqualified in the individual semi-finals, as well as in the women's relay. In April she took part again in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , won the bronze medal in 50.93 s and won the relay competition in 3: 24.00 min. At the NACAC Championships in Toronto she won over 400 meters in 51.15 s and won silver in the relay in 3: 27.25 min. Then she was at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava third in the individual competition and won again with the Pan-American relay. In 2019, as a relay member of Jamaica, she won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Relays in the 4 x 200 meter relay race, which is otherwise not held in international competitions . Over the usual 400-meter distance, she also won bronze as the starting runner of the Jamaican relay at the Pan American Games 2019 in Lima .

In 2016 and 2018, McPherson became the Jamaican champion in the 400-meter run. In 2016 she secured the overall ranking of the IAAF Diamond League .

Personal bests

• 200 meters: 22.93 s (−0.5 m / s), April 12, 2014 in Kingston
• 400 meters: 49.92 s on July 19, 2013 in Monaco
  • 400 meters (hall): 51.91 s, March 18, 2016 in Portland

Web links

Commons : Stephenie Ann McPherson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Stephenie Ann McPherson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Stephenie Ann McPherson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )