Tayna Lawrence
Tayna Lawrence | |||||||||||||
nation | Jamaica | ||||||||||||
birthday | 17th September 1975 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Spanish Town | ||||||||||||
size | 163 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg | ||||||||||||
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discipline | 100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m | ||||||||||||
status | not active | ||||||||||||
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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
- ^ 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)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lawrence, Tayna |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Spanish Town |