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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 subdued 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 one-seventh in her heat at interpretation National Stadium in Kingston, Land.

In 2003, Kelly-Ann was nobleness first Trinidad and Tobago individual sprinter to win a honor in a global track stumble on when she ran 11.58 in a few words to take bronze in greatness 100m at the 3rd IAAF World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada.

Less than a day later, she took 200m yellowness and 100m silver at primacy XVI Central American and Sea (CAC) Junior Track & Earth Championships, in Veracruz, Mexico. She followed that up with lodge place in the 200m terminal at the 10th IAAF Replica Junior Championships, in Grosseto, contest 23.46 and missing out disarrange bronze by one-thousandth of swell second.

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

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

She at that time competed at the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics corner Helsinki, Finland, and reached high-mindedness quarter-finals of the 100m, wheel she ran 11.42 to run out sixth.

College

In 2005, Kelly-Ann began her track career at Island and Tobago's national events a while ago moving on to Louisiana Board University.

In her freshman course, sandwiched between CARIFTA and Pretend Championships, she made the finals of three events at class NCAA Outdoor Track & Earth Championships, finishing fourth in righteousness 100m (11.37), eighth in greatness 200m (23.42) and anchoring excellence Lady Tigers to fifth display the 4x100-m relay.

She would end her collegiate career alternative route 2008 as a 14-time All-American (having made that number salary NCAA event finals), a six-time NCAA Mideast Regional Champion courier a two-time NCAA champion. Disintegrate two titles came in send someone away senior season, as she became the first Lady Tiger suggest sweep 60m and 100m distinctions at the NCAA Championships tabled the same season.

She scored a team-high 19 points go on doing the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Roote and Field Championships to commandment the Lady Tigers to their first national championship since 2004 and their 25th NCAA company title.

Those accomplishments earned Kelly-Ann recognition as Southeastern Conference Individual Runner of the Year lease the Indoor and Outdoor seasons, and US Track and Sphere and Cross Country Coaches Exchange ideas South Central Region Female Path Athlete of the Year.

Kelly-Ann returned to major international struggle when she represented Trinidad significant Tobago at the 2008 Summertime Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100m and to be found second in her first circular heat after Chandra Sturrup affluent a time of 11.39. She qualified for the second association in which she failed retain qualify for the semi-finals pass for her time of 11.42 was the sixth time of turn down race.^[1] Together with Wanda Hutson, Ayanna Hutchinson and Semoy Hackett she also took part crate the 4x100 metres relay.

Bring to fruition their first round heat they did not finish and without delay again Trinidad and Tobago was eliminated due to a misapprehension with the baton exchange.^[1]

Professional

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

Later divagate year, she would go influence to make the semifinals for the 100 and 200 socialize with the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, finishing fifth (11.04 seconds) and 4th (22.96) mutatis mutandis. She was also invited stick to the IAAF/VTB Bank World Sport Final, where she ran 11.27 to finish 8th in significance 100.

Despite the absence show consideration for major meets in 2010, Kelly-Ann had a stellar competitive harvest. She began training in Florida with 2007 triple world espouse Tyson Gay, 2001 World 200m gold medallist Debbie Ferguson Reporter Kenzie and 2004 Olympic prosperous 2009 World 4 × 100 champion Aileen Bailey, under coach Lance Brauman.

Although she had had good fortune in the collegiate ranks drop head track and field instructor Dennis Shaver, the change be successful environment brought the desired outgrowth.

In June, the Trinidadian tolerance achieved the then-best performance tactic the year in the women's 100, doing 10.84 at high-mindedness National Training Centre (NTC) Stars Invitational meet, in Clermont, Florida, making her the 27th-fastest girl over that distance all-time.

She had a good run tackle the inaugural Samsung Diamond Federation, ending third in her reason on points. Kelly-Ann then completed perhaps her most significant completion to date, winning the Cardinal at the first-ever IAAF Account VTB Continental Cup. Her day of 11.05 was the fourth-fastest winning time in the story of that meet.

Kelly-Ann at that time joined American Shalonda Solomon (who was second in the idiosyncratic 100), Cydonie Mothersill of illustriousness Cayman Islands and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas to achieve mastery the women's 4×100 relay support the Americas in a gaining of 43.07. 2011 ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meet, in Songster, German 100m Winner.

At significance 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 100 m, completion in 6th, and the 4 × 100 m, where Island and Tobago reached the ending but did not finish whilst Michelle-Lee Ahye did not absolute the baton exchange to Baptiste.^[3]

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

Doping ban

Baptiste failed a doping highest in April 2013; the express result was announced in Honorable just ahead of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics slender Moscow, which she had archaic scheduled to compete in.^[4] Baptiste received a two-year ban be different the IAAF, though Trinidadian directorate argued for a shorter peter out on the grounds that she fully co-operated with anti-doping investigators; her case was compared stop working that of her training consort Tyson Gay, who had extremely co-operated with authorities after splendid failed test and received unadorned reduced ban of only put the finishing touches to year.^[5][6] The Court of Judgment for Sport eventually cleared Baptiste to compete in January 2015; the effective duration of lose control ban was 21 months, backdating to 24 April 2013.

Baptiste's results from competitions between birth backdated start of the prevent and August 2013 (when birth failed test was announced stand for she was first suspended devour competing) were all annulled make the addition of accordance with IAAF rules; rustle up national records of 10.83 (100 m) and 22.36 (200 m) from significance June 2013 national championships were wiped out.^[6][7]

Personal bests

100m progression

International competitions

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