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    Merlene Joyce Ottey ON OJ OD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in...
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  • clergyman, educationalist and cricketer Merlene Ottey (born 1960), Jamaican-Slovenian sprinter Milton Ottey (born 1959), Jamaican-Canadian high jumper...
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  • Champion. Merlene Ottey also got silver in the 200 m. The women's 4 × 100 m team (Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, and Merlene Ottey) also...
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    Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2008–12), and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2016-2020). Merlene Ottey is the only athlete to win three medals without winning gold, with one...
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    metres not awarded Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18 Merlene Ottey 11.19 The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver...
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    Favour Ofili also ran 22.20 A (2023), 22.36 (2023) and 22.46 (2022). Merlene Ottey also twice ran 22.24 (1991), 22.34 (1989) and 22.37 (1991). JaMeesia...
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    Gatlin ties Fraser-Pryce the most medals with 5, 2 gold and 3 silver. Merlene Ottey and Carmelita Jeter are the only other athletes to have claimed four...
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  • semifinals and a final. Although both Gail Devers of the United States and Merlene Ottey of Jamaica had clocked the same time in the final at the finish line...
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    the Year. She is the second Jamaican woman to win this award after Merlene Ottey in 1990. On the heels of a successful 2013 season, Fraser-Pryce made...
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  • metres not awarded Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18 Merlene Ottey 11.19 The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver...
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    also provided a women's 150 m best that same decade, with Jamaican Merlene Ottey setting a time of 16.46 seconds in Trapani in 1989 – a world best mark...
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    Olympics he defended his title to win his third Olympic 200 m gold medal. Merlene Ottey is the most decorated athlete, having won four medals in the event (though...
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    Jamaican legend Merlene Ottey's record for the most Olympic medals won by a female track and field athlete, although most of Ottey's medal collection...
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    and Candyce McGrone; the time was her new personal best and broke Merlene Ottey's meeting record from 1991. At the Beijing World Championships, she won...
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    19-year-old completed the second-best female one-day double in history after Merlene Ottey, breaking two world U20 records. She won the 100 m with a time of 10...
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  • Givens to her outside just after completing half the turn. In lane 2, Merlene Ottey-Page was the closest challenger, gaining on Kathy Cook between her and...
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  • them head on. Ottey resides in Scarbough with his wife and three children. He is a cousin of nine-time Olympic medallist Merlene Ottey. 7-Time Canadian...
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    having won three straight titles (2005 to 2009). Two-time champion Merlene Ottey has won more medals in the 200 m than any other athlete, reaching the...
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    Alexander Simone Edwards Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Chris Gayle George Headley Merlene Ottey Stafanie Taylor Theodore Whitmore Arthur Wint Elaine Thompson-Herah...
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    Women's 100 metres Juliet Cuthbert Merlene Ottey Dahlia Duhaney Women's 200 metres Juliet Cuthbert Merlene Ottey Grace Jackson Women's 400 metres Sandie...
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  • but was eliminated in the semis. Other returning veterans included Merlene Ottey, who won her first Olympic medal in 1980, Anelia Nuneva who made a heroic...
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  • including eighteen gold medals, while representing thirty countries. Merlene Ottey is Nebraska's most decorated Olympian in terms of medals won, winning...
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  • stepping out of her lane after finishing first. This left her idol, Merlene Ottey, to be promoted to first place. In 2000 she was inducted into the Georgia...
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    1987: Silke Gladisch (GDR) 1991: Katrin Krabbe (GER) 1993: Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1995: Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1997: Zhanna Pintusevich (UKR) 1999: Inger Miller...
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  • (10.54), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.60), Shericka Jackson (10.65), Merlene Ottey (10.74), Kerron Stewart (10.75), and Veronica Campbell Brown (10.76)...
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  • the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships behind Heike Drechsler and Merlene Ottey. The highlight of her career was at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where she...
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    representing Yugoslavia for his first two appearances. Track and field athlete Merlene Ottey competed at the Olympics seven times between 1980 and 2004. In her first...
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    Boyle (AUS) 1978:  Denise Boyd (AUS) 1982:  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1986:  Angella Issajenko (CAN) 1990:  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1994:  Cathy Freeman (AUS) 1998:...
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    Championships in Athletics (held in Tokyo, where she beat Gwen Torrence and Merlene Ottey). She was also part of the winning 4 × 100 metres relay East German...
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    the bronze in the 100 m, she won the 200 m title, joining Jamaican Merlene Ottey and USA's Allyson Felix as the only athletes to successfully defend...
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