Inez Turner
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Born | Trewlany,Jamaica | 3 January 1972||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inez Turner (born January 3, 1972 in Trelawny Parish) is a retired female sprinter and middle-distance runner from Jamaica.
Career[]
In 1991 she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1991 CARIFTA Games.[1][2] She won the 800m gold at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Together with Lorraine Fenton, Deon Hemmings and Sandie Richards she claimed a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.
Personal bests[]
- 400 meters - 51.38 (1993)
- 800 meters - 1:59.49 (1995)
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Jamaica | |||||
1988 | CARIFTA Games (U-17) | Kingston, Jamaica | 2nd | 400 m | 54.86 |
1st | 800 m | 2:10.00 | |||
1989 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Bridgetown, Barbados | 1st | 400 m | 52.7 |
1st | 800 m | 2:07.6 | |||
1990 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Kingston, Jamaica | 2nd | 400 m | 54.79 |
1st | 800 m | 2:10.58 | |||
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:38.28 | |||
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) |
Havana, Cuba | 2nd | 400 m | 53.91 | |
1st | 800 m | 2:09.16 | |||
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:38.07 | |||
World Junior Championships | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 3rd (h)[3] | 800m | 2:06.69 | |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:31.09 | |||
1991 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 1st | 400 m | 53.80 |
1st | 800 m | 2:08.36 | |||
Pan American Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 1st | 800 m | 2:04.57 | |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:33.13 | |||
Pan American Games | Havana, Cuba | 5th | 800 m | 2:02.68 | |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.33 | |||
1993 | Universiade | Buffalo, United States | 2nd | 800 m | 2:04.14 |
Central American and Caribbean Championships | Cali, Colombia | 3rd | 800 m | 52.64 | |
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 11th (sf) | 400 m | 52.25 | |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.83 | |||
1994 | Commonwealth Games | Victoria, Canada | 1st | 800 m | 2:01.74 |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.63 | |||
1995 | World Indoor Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 6th | 800 m | 2:02.00 |
World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | – | 800 m | DQ | |
1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 21st (h) | 800 m | 2:01.48 |
6th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.33 | |||
1997 | World Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 9th (sf) | 800 m | 2:03.51 |
World Championships | Athens, Greece | 28th (h) | 400 m | 53.34 | |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:21.30 NR |
External links[]
- Inez Turner at World Athletics
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Inez Turner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- Picture of Inez Turner[4]
References[]
- ^ Carifta Games Magazine, Part 2 (PDF), Carifta Games 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012, retrieved 12 October 2011
- ^ Carifta Games Magazine, Part 3 (PDF), Carifta Games 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012, retrieved 12 October 2011
- ^ Disqualified in the semifinal.
- ^ Mujeres Rápidas - Inez Turner (in Spanish), retrieved 27 March 2012
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Jamaican female sprinters
- Jamaican female middle-distance runners
- Olympic athletes of Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica
- People from Trelawny Parish
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Junior college women's track and field athletes in the United States
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade silver medalists for Jamaica
- Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Olympic female sprinters
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs