Aleen Bailey

Aleen Bailey ( m. ) 2009

Aleen Bailey ( born November 25, 1980 at Saint Mary Parish ) is a Jamaican track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

Life

She grew up with four siblings in Baccaswood in St. Mary. Even in elementary school aroused a teacher - and television pictures of the successes of Merlene Ottey - her interest in athletics. Bailey then attended Vere Technical High School before she began to study sociology at the University of South Carolina. Her half-brother Capleton is a well known reggae singer.

The sprinter won at the IAAF 1999 World Championships in Seville with the Jamaican 4 x 100 - meter relay bronze medal. In 2001, she was Jamaican champion in the 100 and 200 meters. At the World Championships in Paris in 2003, she was sixth in the 100 -meter run.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the team gold medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay along with teammates Tayna Lawrence Sherone Simpson and Veronica Campbell. In the 100 - meter race she finished fifth and in the 200 - meter race in fourth.

The following year, she won in the relay silver medal at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2007 and at the World Championships in Osaka, she was sixth in the 200 -meter run. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 Bailey took over 100 meters eighth. With the season in the cast Simone Facey, Shelly- Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Kerron Stewart won the world title in 42.06 seconds.

Personal Best

• 60 m (Hall ): 7.18 s 12 February, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 100 m: 11.04 s, July 23, 2004 Birmingham
• 200 m: 22.33 s, August 24, 2004, Athens