Trecia-Kaye Smith
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Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Westmoreland, Jamaica | 5 November 1975||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trecia-Kaye Smith (born 5 November 1975 in Westmoreland, Jamaica) is a Jamaican athlete competing mainly in triple jump.
Career[]
In college, she competed for the University of Pittsburgh from 1996–1999 and was a seven-time NCAA national champion (two outdoor and three indoor long jump titles and one outdoor and one indoor triple jump title), 15-time All-American, a 14-time Big East Conference champion, and a 15-time Eastern College Athletic Conference champion. Trecia was named to the NCAA Division 1 Silver Anniversary Indoor Team and a "NCAA Division 1 Most Outstanding Student-Athlete".[1][2]
Her personal best is 15.16 metres, and she almost equalled that result at the 2005 World Championships where she, in the absence of Golden League winner Tatyana Lebedeva, won the gold medal with 15.11 metres.
Smith won triple jump at the 2009 Jamaican Championship with 14.43 m, qualifying for her fifth World Championships in Athletics.[3] She retained her Commonwealth triple jump title at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and she was given the David Dixon Award for her performance. The decision was a surprise in many quarters as she had only one legal jump at the competition, a modest mark of 14.19 m which she herself acknowledged was "a terrible jump". Alicia Coutts, who emerged with five swimming gold medals, was among the athletes Smith was chosen ahead of.[4]
Achievements[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1990 | CARIFTA Games (U-17) | Kingston, Jamaica | 3rd | Long jump | 5.25 m |
1992 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Nassau, Bahamas | 4th | High jump | 1.60 m |
1994 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Bridgetown, Barbados | 4th | 400 m hurdles | 72.27 |
1st | Long jump | 6.06 m | |||
4th | Javelin | 31.22 m | |||
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 1st | Long jump | 6.40 m | |
2nd | Heptathlon | 4899 pts | |||
World Junior Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 11th | Long jump | 6.12 m w (wind: +3.1 m/s) | |
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 31st (q) | Triple jump | 13.34 m (-0.3 m/s) |
2001 | Central American and Caribbean Championships | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 2nd | Long jump | 6.68 m A |
1st | Long jump | 14.12 m A | |||
World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 8th | Triple jump | 13.92 m (-1.3 m/s) | |
2002 | Commonwealth Games | Manchester, United Kingdom | 3rd | Triple jump | 14.32 m PB |
World Cup | Madrid, Spain | 4th | Triple jump | 13.82 m (0.4 m/s) | |
2004 | World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 4th | Triple jump | 14.71 m NR |
Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 4th | Triple jump | 15.02 m (0.5 m/s) | |
World Athletics Final | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 7th | Triple jump | 14.53 m (-0.5 m/s) | |
2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 1st | Triple jump | 15.11 m (0.8 m/s) WL |
World Athletics Final | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 4th | Triple jump | 14.69 m (0.4 m/s) | |
2006 | World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 4th | Triple jump | 14.84 m NR |
Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 1st | Triple jump | 14.39 m | |
World Cup | Athens, Greece | 4th | Triple jump | 14.64 m | |
2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 24th (q) | Triple jump | 13.47 m (-0.3 m/s) |
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 11th | Triple jump | 14.12 m (0.5 m/s) |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 5th | Triple jump | 14.48 m (-0.2 m/s) |
2010 | Commonwealth Games | New Delhi, India | 1st | Triple jump | 14.19 m SB |
2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 7th | Triple jump | 14.35 m |
References[]
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Foster, Anthony (2009-06-28). Bolt 9.86 and Fraser 10.88; Walker and Phillips excel over hurdles - JAM Champs, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-28.
- ^ Trecia's big leap. The Hindu (2010-10-14). Retrieved on 2010-10-16.
External links[]
- Trecia Kaye Smith at World Athletics
- Trecia Smith at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Picture of Trecia Smith
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Westmoreland Parish
- Jamaican female triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Pittsburgh Panthers women's track and field athletes
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Jamaica
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs