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Nationality | Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica | 7 November 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 100 m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton OD (born 7 November 1974 in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican 100m hurdler. She was the World Champion over 100m hurdles in 2009.
Like fellow Jamaican hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London she was not a successful hurdler until 2000, when she lowered her personal best by 65/100[ clarification needed ]. Having improved greatly, she finished eighth at the 2000 Olympics. At Athens 2004 she pulled out of the semi-finals.
Foster-Hylton won the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships and the bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing Foster-Hylton finished sixth in the final, but was only two-hundredths of a second behind the silver medallist.
Foster-Hylton's greatest achievement came in 2009 when she became World Champion at 100 metres hurdles at the World Championships in Berlin. She had previously won the 100 metres hurdles titles at both the Pan American Games (in 2003) and the Commonwealth Games (in 2006).
She has been married to Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, since 2005. the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, web |last=Ellington |first=Barbara |title=One on One with Patrick Hylton |work=The Gleaner |publisher=Gleaner Company |date=10 July 2011 |url =http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110710/out/out2.html |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref> [1] [2]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1999 | Central American and Caribbean Championships | Bridgetown, Barbados | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 8th | 100 m hurdles | |
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | semi-finals | 100 m hurdles | |
2002 | IAAF World Cup | Madrid, Spain | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | |
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | |
Pan American Games | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 1st | 100 m hurdles | ||
2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | semi-finals | 100 m hurdles | |
2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | 100 m hurdles | |
2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 1st | 100 m hurdles | |
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 6th | 100 m hurdles | |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | 100 m hurdles | |
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | semi-finals | 100 m hurdles | |
2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | heats | 100 m hurdles |
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2002 | IAAF Grand Prix Final | Paris, France | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | |
2009 | IAAF World Athletics Final | Thessaloniki, Greece | 1st | 100 m hurdles |
Foster- Hylton is married to Jamaican banker, the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica Patrick Hylton. In 2016 she gave birth to a son, a year before Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gave birth to hers in 2017. [3]
Michael Frater O.D is a Jamaican retired sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres event. He won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships and a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games for the event.
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Jamaica competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of 46 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. Selected athletes achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. The squad had a number of medal hopes for the sprinting events, including Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, and Michael Frater in the men's and Veronica Campbell-Brown, Kerron Stewart, and Shelly-Ann Fraser in the women's. Olympic gold medallist Melaine Walker competed in the 400 metres hurdles and 2007 World Championship silver medallists Maurice Smith, Shericka Williams, and Novlene Williams-Mills also feature.
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