biography
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Ottey, Merlene (Joyce)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1960– )
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| biography:
| Athlete, born in Jamaica. She has been ranked in the world's top ten women sprinters each year since 1980. She won 73 successive sprint finals and 15 heats during 1989–91, and three Commonwealth Games titles - 200 m in 1982 and 100 m and 200 m in 1990. She has set seven Commonwealth records at 200 m and five at 100 m. She won her eighth Olympic medal in Sydney in 2000, where she was anchor runner for Jamaica, a record women's total in athletics. In 2001 she set the world veteran indoor record over 100 m with a time of 11·21 s, the third fastest time ever. |
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