Tayna Lawrence

Tayna Lawrence
nation	Jamaica
birthday	17th September 1975
place of birth	Spanish Town
size	163 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m
status	not active
Medal table
Olympic games silver 2000 Sydney 100 m silver 2000 Sydney 4 × 100 m gold 2004 Athens 4 × 100 m
last change: August 17, 2012

Tayna Lawrence (born September 17, 1975 in Spanish Town ) is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in sprint disciplines.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 she won the bronze medal in the 100-meter run behind the American Marion Jones and the Greek Ekaterini Thanou . After Jones was stripped of her medal in 2007, Lawrence subsequently received silver. With her teammates Veronica Campbell , Beverly McDonald and Merlene Ottey , she also won an Olympic silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay in Sydney .

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with her teammates Sherone Simpson , Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.93 s, Brussels, 30 August 2002
• 200 m: 22.84 s, Pointe-á-Pitre, May 1st, 2000

Individual evidence

1. ^ IOC decision: Olympic gold nine years late , Spiegel Online from December 9, 2009. Accessed April 2, 2011.

Web links

• Tayna Lawrence in the database of World Athletics (English)