Kerron Stewart
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Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kingston, Jamaica | 16 April 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kerron Stewart (born 16 April 1984) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the
Stewart holds one of the fastest non-winning times for the women's 100 metres. In the 2009 World Athletics Championships from Berlin, she ran 10.75 seconds only to finish second to compatriot,
Junior career
She won the U18 100m at the 2000 Carifta Games.[3] She also represented Jamaica at the World Junior Championships that year, winning a silver medal in the 4 x 100 m relay.[3] In 2001, she finished second in the 200 m at the World Youth Games. In the following year, she finished fourth in the 100 m at the World Junior Championships, and second at the U20 100 m at the 2002 Carifta Games.[3] After winning the U20 100 m, and coming third in the U20 200 m at the 2003 Carifta Games, she was selected for the 2003 Pan American Games, but injured herself in the athlete's village by walking through a plate glass window in the dark, forcing her out of action for three months.[3]
Recovering, she was selected as an alternate for the Jamaican 2004 Olympic team, but did not get to race.[3]
Auburn University
Stewart ran track and field for Auburn University under coach Henry Rolle at NCCA division I level. She was named 2007 SEC Runner of the Year and USTFCCCA National Runner of the Year after capturing the SEC and NCAA Championships in the 60m and the 200m. She was named All-American for seven times and one of the best athlete in the school's history. In 2007, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female collegiate track and field athlete.[4][5]
2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
At the
2009 World Championships in Athletics
Stewart came second in the 100 m at the 2009 Jamaican national championships, finishing in 10.93 s and qualifying for the 2009 World Championships.
At the 2009
At the
2014 Commonwealth Games
Having moved back to Jamaica in 2013 to train under new coach Glenn Mills and help to coach the next generation of Jamaican sprinting talent, she competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal in the 100 m and a gold medal in the 4 x 100 m (with Veronica Campbell-Brown, Schillonie Calvert and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce) in a games record time.[7]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile
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2nd | 4 x 100m relay | 44.05 |
2001 | World Youth Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 2nd | 100 m | 11.72 (wind: +0.5 m/s) |
2nd | Medley relay | 2:07.45 | |||
2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 4th | 100m | 11.53 (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
1st | 4×100m relay | 43.40 | |||
2nd (h)[8] | 4×400m relay | 3:32.20 | |||
2004 | NACAC U-23 Championships
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Sherbrooke, Canada | 2nd | 100m | 11.40 (wind: +0.0 m/s) |
5th | 200m | 25.18 (wind: -4.0 m/s) | |||
1st | 4x100m relay | 43.62 | |||
2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 7th | 100 m | 11.12 (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
2nd | 4 x 100 m relay | 42.01 | |||
2008 | 2008 Summer Olympics
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Beijing, China | 2nd | 100 m | 10.98 (wind: +0.0 m/s) |
3rd | 200 m | 22.00 (wind: +0.6 m/s) | |||
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 2nd | 100 m | 10.75 (wind: +0.1 m/s) |
2012 | Summer Olympics | London, Great Britain | 2nd | 4 x 100 m | 41.41 |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 5th | 100 m | 10.97 (wind: -0.3 m/s) |
2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, Scotland | 3rd | 100 m | 11.07 |
1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 41.83 | |||
2015 | NACAC Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 4th | 200m | 22.80 (wind: +1.3 m/s) |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 41.84 (only heats) |
Personal bests
- 100 metres – 10.75 s (2009)
- 200 metres – 21.99 s (2008)
References
- ^ Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the originalon 23 August 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
- ^ Foster, Anthony (2 May 2018). "Kerron Stewart to retire after 2018 season". Trackalerts. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "IAAF: Athlete profile for Kerron Stewart". iaaf.org. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ "Kerron Stewart Receives Honda Sports Award As Nation's Top Female Track And Field Athlete". Auburn University Athletics. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ "Track & Field". CWSA. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-28.
- ^ "Kerron Stewart Biography - 2014 Commonwealth Games". g2014results.thecgf.com/. 8 August 2014.
- ^ Competed only in the heat.
External links
- Kerron Stewart at World Athletics
- Kerron Stewart at Olympics.com
- Kerron Stewart at Olympedia