Kerron Stewart

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Kerron Stewart
Personal information
NationalityJamaican
Born (1984-04-16) 16 April 1984 (age 40)
Kingston, Jamaica
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Medal record
Women's
athletics
Representing  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2009 Berlin 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay
World Relay Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nassau 4×100 m relay
World Athletics Final
Silver medal – second place
2008 Stuttgart
 100m
Bronze medal – third place
2008 Stuttgart
 200m
Bronze medal – third place
2009 Thessaloniki
 100 m
Bronze medal – third place
2009 Thessaloniki
 200 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Kingston 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2000 Santiago 4×100 m relay
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place 2001 Hungary 100 m
CAC Junior Championships (U17)
Gold medal – first place 2000 San Juan 4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2000 San Juan 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 San Juan 200 m
CARIFTA Games
Junior (U20)
Gold medal – first place 2001 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2003 Port of Spain 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Port of Spain 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2002 Nassau 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Port of Spain 200 m
CARIFTA Games
Youth (U17)
Gold medal – first place 2000 St. George's 100m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 St. George's 300m hurdles

Kerron Stewart (born 16 April 1984) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the

Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she tied with Sherone Simpson in a time of 10.98s. She also earned a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a time of 22.00s. She was born in Kingston and retired after the 2018 season.[2]

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,

4x100 m relay
team to victory in a time of 42.06.

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

4x100 metres relay. In their first round heat (without Simpson and Stewart) they placed first in front of Russia, Germany and China. Their time of 42.24 seconds was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they replaced Brooks and Bailey with Simpson and Stewart. Eventually they did not finish their race due to a mistake in the baton exchange.[1]

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

Shelly-Ann Fraser's 10.73 national record.[6]

At the

200m due to an ankle injury, but was anchor for the Jamaican quartet that took gold in the 4x100m Relay.[citation needed
]

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
Representing  Jamaica
2000 World Junior Championships
Santiago, Chile
 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
 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
 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

  1. ^
    Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original
    on 23 August 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  2. ^ Foster, Anthony (2 May 2018). "Kerron Stewart to retire after 2018 season". Trackalerts. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e "IAAF: Athlete profile for Kerron Stewart". iaaf.org. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Kerron Stewart Receives Honda Sports Award As Nation's Top Female Track And Field Athlete". Auburn University Athletics. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Track & Field". CWSA. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  6. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2009-06-28.
  7. ^ "Kerron Stewart Biography - 2014 Commonwealth Games". g2014results.thecgf.com/. 8 August 2014.
  8. ^ Competed only in the heat.

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