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List of the most popular, renowned or famous athletes from Jamaica. Shelly-Ann Fraser is also ranked #76 of on The Best Female Athletes of All Time Yohan Blake is also He played as a right winger for Cowes Sports, more 50 Catherine Scott is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list Famous Athletes from Jamaica.
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Sign up here to see what happened On This Day , every day in your inbox! By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. More About. Bolt, who won eight Olympic gold medals and led Jamaica through a golden era in sprinting, said he felt motivation levels had fallen since his retirement after the London world championships in Bolt bowed out of London with a bronze in the m and suffered a hamstring injury during the 4x relay as Jamaica's men's team missed out on a medal for the first time since in Helsinki.
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The Jamaican men also had a disappointing Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast last year, picking up bronzes in both the m individual and relay events despite the relatively weak fields. Bolt was more positive about Jamaica's hopes in the women's events at the Sept. They want to be great, they want to accomplish things in life so they work towards certain things.
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She has also been named Jamaican Sportswoman of the year 13 times between and Throughout her career, she has won nine Olympic medals, which ties with Allyson Felix for the most by any woman in track and field history [1]. These include three silver and six bronze medals. She has never won an Olympic gold medal, but lost by five thousandths of a second to Gail Devers in the m Final at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta when they both recorded the same time of She held the record for most World Championship medals, winning 14 three gold, three silver, eight bronze between and , until Allyson Felix took her total from 13 to 16 in Ottey still holds the record for most World Championship medals in individual events, with Ottey was appointed an Ambassador at Large by the Jamaican government in In , during a meet in Lucerne, Switzerland , a urine sample submitted had returned positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone.
Her 'B' sample also contained higher than normal levels of the substance. Ottey fought to clear her name, asserting that charge was a "terrible mistake", and that she was innocent of knowingly taking steroids.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed the case because the retesting order by the CAS was not completed in the time frame allotted. According to the rules of the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association JAAA , only athletes who had finished in the top three at the trials were eligible to run at the Olympics; she was only qualified to run on the 4 x m relay team.
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Ottey asked that she be substituted for another team member, a courtesy that had been extended to others in the past. Dowdie's team members and many Jamaicans believed that Ottey had bullied her way onto the team. She was construed as an aging icon trying to retain power by usurping the place of a younger and equally worthy athlete. Jamaican m Olympian and championship medallist Gregory Haughton lead the notorious "Games Village" protests to oust Ottey, which made international headlines.
The protest ended when The International Olympic Committee IOC threatened to throw the Jamaicans out of the Games if the team managers were not able to control their charges. At the Olympics, Ottey finished fourth in the m, beaten from a medal by fellow Jamaican sprinter Tayna Lawrence.
The race was won by Marion Jones who registered Lawrence posted This medal gave Ottey her eighth medal, the most ever for a female athlete. Nine years later, after the disqualification of Jones for steroid abuse, Ottey's fourth place was retroactively promoted to third — giving Ottey her ninth medal — and Lawrence to second.
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Due to the controversy, Ottey decided that "after Sydney I said I wasn't going to run another race for Jamaica There she was still representing Jamaica. However, in May , she became a Slovene citizen, and now resides in Ljubljana , where she represents her new country in international events. Ottey competed for Slovenia in the metres at the Summer Olympics in Athens, where she reached the semifinals. She finished 5th missing out on qualification for the final by just 0. At age 46, she competed in the European Championships in Athletics. She finished fifth in the semi-finals of the metres and did not qualify for the final, which was won by Belgium 's Kim Gevaert.
Ottey failed by 0. In spite of this, two years later she qualified for the Slovenian 4 x metre relay squad at the European Athletics Championships where she became the oldest athlete ever to participate in the history of the European championships. At the age of 52, Ottey competed in the 4x meters relay at the European Athletics Championships.
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Since , Ottey has lived in Switzerland. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Merlene Ottey Ottey in Medal record. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 February Archived from the original on 8 October Retrieved 23 October