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Kerron Stewart

Kerron Stewart
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Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2009 Berlin 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay
World Athletics Final
Silver medal – second place 2008 Stuttgart 100m
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Stuttgart 200m
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Thessaloniki 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Thessaloniki 200 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Kingston 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2000 Santiago 4×100 m relay
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place 2001 Hungary 100 m
CAC Junior Championships (U17)
Gold medal – first place 2000 San Juan 4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2000 San Juan 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 San Juan 200 m
CARIFTA Games
Junior (U20)
Gold medal – first place 2001 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2003 Port of Spain 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Port of Spain 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2002 Nassau 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Port of Spain 200 m
CARIFTA Games
Youth (U17)
Gold medal – first place 2000 St. George's 100m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 St. George's 300m hurdles

Kerron Stewart (born 16 April 1984) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she tied with Sherone Simpson in a time of 10.98s. She also earned a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a time of 22.00s. She was born in Kingston.

Stewart holds the fastest non-winning time for the women's 100 metres. In the 2009 World Athletics Championships from Berlin, she ran 10.75 seconds only to finish second to campatriot, Shelly-Ann Fraser who ran a 10.73 race. Stewart also anchored the Jamaican 4x100 m relay team to victory in a time of 42.06.

She won the U18 100m at the 2000 Carifta Games. She also represented Jamaica at the World Junior Championships that year, winning a silver medal in the 4 x 100 m relay. In 2001, she finished second in the 200 m at the World Youth Games. In the following year, she finished fourth in the 100 m at the World Junior Championships, and second at the U20 100 m at the 2002 Carifta Games. After winning the U20 100 m, and coming third in the U20 200 m at the 2003 Carifta Games, she was selected for the 2003 Pan American Games, but injured herself in the athlete's village by walking through a plate glass window in the dark, forcing her out of action for three months.

Recovering, she was selected as an alternate for the Jamaican 2004 Olympic team, but did not get to race.

Stewart ran track and field for Auburn University at NCCA division I level. She was named 2007 SEC Runner of the Year and USTFCCCA National Runner of the Year after capturing the SEC and NCAA Championships in the 60m and the 200m. She was named All-American for seven times and one of the best athlete in the school's history.


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