peoplepill id: kimberly-williams-1
KW
Jamaica
8 views today
8 views this week
Kimberly Williams (athlete)
Triple jumper

Kimberly Williams (athlete)

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Triple jumper
Places
Work field
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Saint Thomas Parish
Age
36 years
Kimberly Williams (athlete)
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Kimberly Williams (born 3 November 1988) is a Jamaican triple jumper. She is a multiple time Jamaican National Champion. She was successful as a youth athlete, winning the 2003 CARIFTA Games (under 17 division) as a 14 year old. She was runner up at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Later, she jumped for Florida State University and was a four time NCAA Champion. By the time she graduated in 2012, she was "the most decorated women's track and field athlete in Florida State history." Since then she is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion. She was a finalist in the 2016 Olympics, ranking as high as 4th after two rounds of jumping, ultimately finishing seventh.

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Jamaica
2003CARIFTA GamesPort of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago1stTriple jump12.18 m
2004CARIFTA GamesHamilton, Bermuda1stTriple jump12.53 m
2006Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)Port of Spain, Trinidad2ndTriple jump12.47 m
CARIFTA GamesLes Abymes, Guadeloupe1stTriple jump12.94 m
World Junior ChampionshipsBeijing, China15th (q)Triple jump12.81 m (wind: -0.2 m/s)
2007Pan American Junior ChampionshipsSão Paulo, Brazil2ndTriple jump13.38 m
CARIFTA GamesProvidenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands1stTriple jump12.85 m
2ndLong jump6.15 m
2009Central American and Caribbean ChampionshipsHavana, Cuba3rdTriple jump13.78 m
World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany15 (q)Triple jump14.08 m
2010Central American and Caribbean GamesMayagüez, Puerto Rico1stTriple jump14.23 m
NACAC Under-23 ChampionshipsMiramar, United States1stTriple jump14.14m (wind: 3.1 m/s) w
2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea14th (q)Triple jump14.06 m
2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey5thTriple jump14.27 m
2013World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia4thTriple jump14.62 m
2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland3rdTriple jump14.39 m
Commonwealth GamesGlasgow, United Kingdom1stTriple jump14.21 m
2015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China5thTriple jump14.45 m
2016Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil7thTriple jump14.53 m

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Kimberly Williams (athlete) is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Kimberly Williams (athlete)
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes