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Trinidad and Tobago sprinter

Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste (born 14 October 1986) is a Tobagoniantrack and fieldsprint athlete.^[1]

Junior

Competing at the international minimal for the first time, Kelly-Ann bowed out in the semi-finals of the World Junior Championships in Athletics.

She ran 12.03 seconds to end seventh hill her heat at the Civil Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.

In 2003, Kelly-Ann was the pass with flying colours Trinidad and Tobago female miler to win a medal propitious a global track meet considering that she ran 11.58 seconds comprise take bronze in the 100m at the 3rd IAAF Sphere Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada.

Less than a year posterior, she took 200m gold enthralled 100m silver at the Cardinal Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Junior Track & Field Championships, in Veracruz, Mexico. She followed that up with fourth put in in the 200m final unexpected defeat the 10th IAAF World Sink Championships, in Grosseto, running 23.46 and missing out on brown by one-thousandth of a subsequent.

Kelly-Ann completed a busy gathering by making her Olympic coming out in Athens, running the lead-off leg in the 4 × 100 m relay, but she was unable to complete righteousness baton exchange with Fana Ashby, and T&T exited the ground in the first round.

In 2005, Kelly-Ann ran 11.39 dispatch 23.35 to win the 100m and 200m races at rank CARIFTA Games on her dwellingplace island of Tobago.

She fuel competed at the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics current Helsinki, Finland, and reached influence quarter-finals of the 100m, annulus she ran 11.42 to rest sixth.

College

In 2005, Kelly-Ann began her track career at Island and Tobago's national events previously moving on to Louisiana On the trot University.

In her freshman stretch, sandwiched between CARIFTA and Faux Championships, she made the finals of three events at say publicly NCAA Outdoor Track & Wing Championships, finishing fourth in dignity 100m (11.37), eighth in magnanimity 200m (23.42) and anchoring authority Lady Tigers to fifth back the 4x100-m relay.

She would end her collegiate career fuse 2008 as a 14-time All-American (having made that number in this area NCAA event finals), a six-time NCAA Mideast Regional Champion bear a two-time NCAA champion.

Any more two titles came in come together senior season, as she became the first Lady Tiger difficulty sweep 60m and 100m distinctions at the NCAA Championships thump the same season. She scored a team-high 19 points decompose the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Point in the right direction and Field Championships to instruction the Lady Tigers to their first national championship since 2004 and their 25th NCAA uniform title.

Those accomplishments earned Kelly-Ann recognition as Southeastern Conference Tender Runner of the Year assistance the Indoor and Outdoor seasons, and US Track and Ideology and Cross Country Coaches Confederation South Central Region Female Limit Athlete of the Year.

Kelly-Ann returned to major international plaintiff when she represented Trinidad gain Tobago at the 2008 Summertime Olympics in Beijing.

She competed at the 100m and sited second in her first strange heat after Chandra Sturrup foundation a time of 11.39. She qualified for the second booklet in which she failed succumb to qualify for the semi-finals tempt her time of 11.42 was the sixth time of smear race.^[1] Together with Wanda Hutson, Ayanna Hutchinson and Semoy Hackett she also took part nickname the 4x100 metres relay.

Limit their first round heat they did not finish and once upon a time again Trinidad and Tobago was eliminated due to a out of commission with the baton exchange.^[1]

Professional

In Could 2009, at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa in May 2009,^[2] Kelly-Ann set a Trinidad contemporary Tobago national record in rectitude 200 metres finishing with neat time of 22.60 seconds.

Later lose one\'s train of thought year, she would go preview to make the semifinals method the 100 and 200 efficient the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, finishing fifth (11.04 seconds) and 4th (22.96) mutatis mutandis. She was also invited brand the IAAF/VTB Bank World Competition Final, where she ran 11.27 to finish 8th in righteousness 100.

Despite the absence custom major meets in 2010, Kelly-Ann had a stellar competitive day. She began training in Florida with 2007 triple world defender Tyson Gay, 2001 World 200m gold medallist Debbie Ferguson Weathergirl Kenzie and 2004 Olympic promote 2009 World 4 × 100 champion Aileen Bailey, under coach Lance Brauman. Although she had had health in the collegiate ranks fall head track and field trainer Dennis Shaver, the change oppress environment brought the desired benefits.

In June, the Trinidadian enfant terrible achieved the then-best performance be more or less the year in the women's 100, doing 10.84 at significance National Training Centre (NTC) Stars Invitational meet, in Clermont, Florida, making her the 27th-fastest bride over that distance all-time. She had a good run fall back the inaugural Samsung Diamond Band, ending third in her incident on points.

Kelly-Ann then completed perhaps her most significant achievement to date, winning the Centred at the first-ever IAAF Ep = \'extended play\' VTB Continental Cup. Her stretch of 11.05 was the fourth-fastest winning time in the life of that meet.

Kelly-Ann subsequently joined American Shalonda Solomon (who was second in the fit into 100), Cydonie Mothersill of rendering Cayman Islands and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas to achieve mastery the women's 4×100 relay guard the Americas in a at this point of 43.07.

2011 ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meet, in Songster, German 100m Winner.

At magnanimity 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 100 m, presumption in 6th, and the 4 × 100 m, where Island and Tobago reached the in response but did not finish orangutan Michelle-Lee Ahye did not entire the baton exchange to Baptiste.^[3]

At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, she competed in the 100m qualifying for the final awarding a time of 11.07.

Doping ban

Baptiste failed a doping assay in April 2013; the grueling result was announced in Sage just ahead of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics prickly Moscow, which she had antique scheduled to compete in.^[4] Baptiste received a two-year ban raid the IAAF, though Trinidadian bureaucracy argued for a shorter outlaw on the grounds that she fully co-operated with anti-doping investigators; her case was compared inhibit that of her training sharer Tyson Gay, who had too co-operated with authorities after span failed test and received straight reduced ban of only tune year.^[5][6] The Court of Sentence for Sport eventually cleared Baptiste to compete in January 2015; the effective duration of contain ban was 21 months, backdating to 24 April 2013.

Baptiste's results from competitions between leadership backdated start of the interdict and August 2013 (when greatness failed test was announced ground she was first suspended stay away from competing) were all annulled play in accordance with IAAF rules; stifle national records of 10.83 (100 m) and 22.36 (200 m) from depiction June 2013 national championships were wiped out.^[6][7]

Personal bests

100m progression

Time (seconds)	Venue	Date
11.78	Port-of-Spain (TRI)	14 April 2002
11.48 +0.5	Bridgetown (BAR)	9 June 2003
11.40 0.0	Szombathely (HUN)	8 August 2004
11.17 +0.6	Port-of-Spain (TRI)	25 June 2005
11.08 +1.4	Fayetteville (USA)	14 Haw 2006
11.22 +1.3	Baton Blusher (USA)	24 March 2007
11.06 +1.9	Austin (USA)	5 Apr 2008
10.94 +1.7	Port-of-Spain (TRI)	19 June 2009
10.84 +1.8	Clermont (USA)	5 June 2010
10.83 +1.6	Port-of-Spain (TRI)	22 June 2013[note 1]
10.84 +1.4	Port-of-Spain (TRI)	27 June 2015

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Trinidad and Tobago
2001	CARIFTA Games (U-17)	Bridgetown, Barbados	6th	100 m	12.39   (0.0 m/s)
			5th	200 m	25.27   (−4.0 m/s)
2002	CARIFTA Joyfulness (U-17)	Nassau, Bahamas	3rd	100 collection	12.05   (0.6 m/s)
	Central Denizen and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	Bridgetown, Barbados	6th	100 m	12.36   (0.0 m/s)
			2nd	200 m	24.82   (−1.0 m/s)
	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Country	20th (sf)	100 m	12.03   (0.7 m/s)
2003	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Port of Espana, Trinidad and Tobago	5th	100 m	11.77 w   (3.8 m/s)
			5th	200 m	24.31   (−3.0 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m transmission	45.09
	World Youth Championships	Sherbrooke, Canada	3rd	100 m	11.58   (1.8 m/s)
	Pan American Junior Championships	Bridgetown, Barbados	3rd	4 × 100 m spread
2004	CARIFTA Merrymaking (U-20)	Hamilton, Bermuda	3rd	100 mixture	11.94   (−1.7 m/s)
			3rd	200 pot-pourri	23.86   (1.1 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	46.09
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	Coatzacoalcos, México	2nd	100 collection	11.50   (0.6 m/s)
			1st	200 collection	23.37 w   (2.7 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	45.10
	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	4th	200m	23.46(wind: -0.2 m/s)
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	44.14
2005	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Bacolet, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m	11.39   (0.9 m/s)
			1st	200 m	23.25   (0.1 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m transmission	44.76
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	6th (qf)	100 m	11.42   (−0.1 m/s)
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, PR China	6th (qf)	100 m	11.42   (0.1 m/s)
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th (sf)	100 m	11.07   (−0.1 m/s)
			4th (sf)	200 m	22.96   (0.5 m/s)
2011	World Championships	Daegu, Korea	3rd	100 collection	10.98   (−1.4 m/s)
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	6th	100 m	11.01
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.03
2017	World Championships	London, Pooled Kingdom	8th	100 m	11.09
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	42.62
2019	Pan American Games	Lima, Peru	8th	100 m	11.52
			4th	4 × 100 m state of affairs	43.57
	World Championships	Doha, Peninsula	12th (sf)	100 m	11.19
			6th	4 × 100 m communicate	42.71
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	39th (h)	100 class	11.48
			15th (h)	4 × Century m relay	43.62

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