Melaine Walker

Melaine Walker 2009 in Berlin

Melaine Walker ( born January 1, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican hurdler, the 400m hurdles in 2008 Olympic champion and 2009 world champion was at its purpose-built track. Walker is on the 400m hurdles, the second fastest woman of all time after world record holder of Julija Petschonkina.

Career

At the Junior World Championships 1998 in Annecy, she won bronze in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz in 1999 was followed by silver in the 200 -meter run. The following Junior World Championships, she won the 2000 400m hurdles bronze and the 4 x 400 meters relay silver medal. In 2002, she won a silver medal in the 400 m hurdles.

Walker participated in the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in part, but different in the 400m hurdles already out in the flow. The Central American and Caribbean Games in 2006, she won bronze in the 400m hurdles and silver in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. In 2007, she reached at the World Championships in Osaka the semi-finals and finished the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany to third place. In both years, it was also Jamaican champion.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she won in a new Olympic record time of 52.64 s the gold medal in the 400m hurdles. A year later at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 won her first World Championship title and increased in the final run their personal best 52.42 s, and the time was Walker 's second fastest 400-meter hurdler of all time. In 2010, she had to sit most of the season because of a hamstring injury. In 2011, she returned to the competition scene and was at the World Championships in Daegu with a time of 52.73 s second behind the U.S. American Lashinda Demus. At the Olympic Games 2012 in London, they bowed out with a time of 55.74 s from.

Walker studied at the University of Texas at Austin and is coached by Stephen Francis. She was elected in 2008 sportswoman of the year in Jamaica, she shared which this year double award granted with Veronica Campbell - Brown. In the same year Walker of the Order of Distinction ( Officer Class) was awarded.

Personal Best

  • 200 meters: 23.51 s, 1999
  • 400 meters: 51.61 s, March 22, 2008, Kingston
  • 100 Meter Hurdles: 12.75 s, June 9, 2006, Sacramento
  • 400 Meter Hurdles: 52.42 s, August 20, 2009, Berlin
Summer Olympic Games 2009 World Championships in Athletics 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics Kingston, Jamaica 4 × 100 metres relay 4 × 400 metres relay 2001 World Championships in Athletics 2007 World Championships in Athletics Achilles tendon Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year Sabine Busch Sally Gunnell Kim Batten Jana Pittman Deon Hemmings Irina Privalova Fani Chalkia
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