Ronetta Smith

Ronetta Smith ( born 2 May 1980 in Kingston) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

Your greatest achievements came as a member of the Jamaican 4 x 400 meters relay. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003, she won jointly with Allison Beckford, Lorraine Fenton and Sandie Richards in 3:22,92 min the bronze medal behind the teams from the United States and Russia. In the 400 - meter race in Paris Smith reached the semi-finals, her best individual result at major international events.

At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she was a member of the Jamaican 4 x 400 - meter relay that won the bronze medal. Smith himself was only used in the qualifying round, in the final it was replaced by Novlene Williams.

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, the Jamaican relay to Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton only just qualified as the seventh fastest team in the heats for the finals. In the same line-up this where she won with a time of 3:23,29 min the silver medal behind the superior Russian quartet. Smith started in Helsinki also about 400 m, but failed already in the heats.

Ronetta Smith has a competition weight of 60 kg at a height of 1.72 m.

Bests

  • 200 m: 23.25 s, April 14, 2001 Baton Rouge
  • 400 m: 51.23 s 22 May, 2005, Carson (California )
Summer Olympic Games 2005 World Championships in Athletics May 2 Kingston, Jamaica 400 metres 4 × 400 metres relay Novlene Williams-Mills Baton Rouge, Louisiana Carson, California
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