Briana Williams

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Briana Williams
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Personal information
Full nameBriana Nichole Williams
Nationality
  • American
  • Jamaican [1]
Born (2002-03-21) 21 March 2002 (age 21)
Miami, Florida, U.S. [2] [1]
Sport
Country Jamaica
Sport Track and field
Event Sprints
ClubBorn 2 Do It [3]
Turned pro2020 [4]
Coached by Ato Boldon [1] [5]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Eugene 4×100 m relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Budapest 4×100 m relay
World U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Tampere 100 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Tampere 200 m
NACAC Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Freeport 4×100 m relay
Pan American U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 San José 100 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 San José4×100 m relay
NACAC Championships (U18)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Queretaro 100 m

Briana Nichole Williams (born March 21, 2002) is an American-born sprinter competing for Jamaica in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She became the youngest athlete to win the women's 100 metres and 200 metres double at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships in Tampere at age 16.

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She holds the girls' 100 metres age-15 world record with a time of 11.13 seconds, set in March 2018. She is the Jamaican under-18 and under-20 record holder in the women's 200 metres, and was Jamaica"s under-18 and under-20 record holder in the women's 100 metres with personal bests of 22.50 seconds and 10.97 seconds respectively. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Athletics career

2018

On March 17 at the Bob Hayes Invitational in Jacksonville, Florida, Williams broke the world age-15 record in the girls' 100 metres, winning in a time of 11.13 seconds. The previous record had been 11.17 seconds, set almost 27 years prior by Marion Jones on 1 June 1991. [6] [7]

Two weeks later she earned gold medals in the 100 metres, the 200 metres, and the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2018 CARIFTA Games in the under-17 category, setting championship records in the 100 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. [10] [11] [12]

In July she became the youngest athlete ever to win both the women's 100 metres and the 200 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere. [13] [5] [14]

2019

At the 2019 CARIFTA Games in April, Williams again tripled in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay to win three gold medals in the under-20 category. [15] [16]

On 1 June, Williams set a new Jamaican under-18 and under-20 record in the women's 100 metres at the JAC Open in Jacksonville, Florida, improving on Kiara Grant's under-20 record set the month prior by one hundredth of a second to 11.10 seconds. [8] Grant took the record back a week later at the NCAA Division I Championships in Austin, Texas with a 11.04 seconds finish in the final, but less than an hour later Williams improved the record to 11.02 seconds at the Great Southwest Classic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [9]

Williams ran 10.94 s in the 100 m final at the Jamaican Championships on 21 June 2019, which would have set the world under-18 best time and improved her Jamaican under-20 record. [17] [18] [19] [20] However, she tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide during the competition. While she was ruled to be not at fault and received no period of ineligibility to compete, her results from the Jamaican Championships were deleted from the records. [21] [22] [23]

2021

Williams improved her official Jamaican under-20 record of 11.02 seconds in the women's 100 metres at the JAC Summer Open in Jacksonville, Florida on 30 May, clocking 11.19 seconds in the prelims and then winning the final in 11.01 seconds. [24] A day later in the American Track League at the same track she ran 10.97 in the prelims, but the time was assisted by a +2.5 m/s wind, making it ineligible for record purposes which allow no more than a +2.0 m/s wind velocity. In the final she clocked 10.98 seconds to win with only a +1.0 m/s wind, setting her second Jamaican under-20 record in two days. [25] In June 2021, Williams placed fourth at the Jamaican National Championships with a time of 11.01 in the 100 metres, thus not qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in that event. [23] However, she competed at the Olympics as a part of the 4 x 100 metres relay team, winning the gold medal.

Awards and recognition

Williams earned the Austin Sealy award at the CARIFTA Games in 2018 and then 2019 for her records set and gold medals earned in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay in both editions. She was the first Jamaican athlete to win the award two years in a row since Usain Bolt in 2004. [10] [11] [12] [15] [16]

For her athletics achievements in 2018 she was nominated for the IAAF Female Rising Star and the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year awards. [26] [27] [28]

Statistics

Personal bests

EventTime (s)Wind (m/s)VenueDateNotes
60 metres 7.15-1.1 Kingston, Jamaica25 January 2020Jamaican U20 record
60 metres indoor7.04— Belgrade, Serbia18 March 2022Jamaican U23 indoor record
100 metres 10.97+1.2 Miramar, FL, United States5 June 2021Jamaican U20 record [note 1]
10.93 w +3.6 Miramar, FL, United States5 June 2021(wind-assisted)
200 metres 22.50-0.1 Tampere, Finland14 July 2018Jamaican U18 and U20 record [13] [5] [14]
4 × 100 m relay 41.02— Tokyo, Japan6 August 2021 Jamaican national record, 2nd all-time [29]

International competitions

Representing Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeWind (m/s)Notes
2017 CARIFTA Games (U18) Willemstad, Curaçao3rd100 m11.80−1.6
2018 CARIFTA Games (U17) Nassau, Bahamas1st100 m11.27+1.6 CR [30] [11]
1st200 m23.11+1.1 PB
1st4 × 100 m relay44.95— PB CR [10] [11]
World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland1st 100 m 11.160.0
1st 200 m 22.50−0.1 NU18R NU20R CR [13] [5] [14]
2019 CARIFTA Games (U20) Georgetown, Cayman Islands1st100 m11.25+0.3 SB
1st200 m22.89+0.9 SB
1st4 × 100 m relay44.25— PB
NACAC U18 Championships Querétaro, Mexico1st100 m11.11+1.5 CR
Pan American U20 Championships San José, Costa Rica1st100 m11.38−1.4
2nd4 × 100 m relay44.36—
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan1st 4 × 100 m relay 41.02— NR
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia6th 60 m 7.04—
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom14th (sf) 60 m 7.19—

National championships

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeWind (m/s)Notes
2017Jamaican U20 Championships Kingston, Jamaica2nd100 m11.30+1.6 PB
2nd200 m23.57+0.5 PB
2018Jamaican Championships Kingston, Jamaica5th100 m11.21+0.4
2019Jamaican Championships Kingston, Jamaica3rd DQ 100 m10.94+0.6 [note 1] [17] [18] [19]
2021Jamaican Championships Kingston, Jamaica4th100 m11.01-

Seasonal bests

Year100 metres200 metres
201413.25—
201512.0924.79
201612.5826.16
201711.3023.56
201811.1322.50
201911.02 [note 1] 22.88
202012.4324.70
202110.9722.93  w
202211.0322.81
202311.0123.38

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Williams finished third in 10.94 s at the 2019 Jamaican Championships, which would have been a world under-18 best time and improved her Jamaican under-20 record. However, she tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide during the competition. She was ruled to be not at fault and received no period of ineligibility to compete, but her results from the Jamaican Championships were nullified. [21] [22]

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