Sheri-Ann Brooks
Sheri -Ann Brooks 2007
Sheri -Ann Brooks ( born February 11, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican sprinter.
She won at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in both the 100 meters and in the 4 x 100 -meter relay gold medal.
In 2007, she secured at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro also the gold medal in the relay. About 200 meters they took second place. In the same year she won at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka as the first leg in the 4 x 100 meters relay together with Kerron Stewart, Simone Facey and Veronica Campbell-Brown, the silver medal. There she also started in the 100 meter race, but retired with a time of 11.21 s in the semi-final round.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, she ran in the 4 x 100 - meter relay Jamaica, the s as the fastest team in the preliminary round qualify for the final in 42.24. In the final, Brooks was not used, the Jamaican relay retired due to a faulty substitution from.
2009 Brooks was tested positive at the Jamaican championships in the A- sample for the banned stimulant methylxanthine and then deleted by the Jamaican Association of the squad for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. However, due to a technicality at the opening of the B sample had to be acquitted and got her start right back at the world championships.
Sheri -Ann Brooks has a competition weight of 55 kg at a height of 1.68 m.