Keturah Anderson | |
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| Born | 9 January 1968 in Kingston |
| Occupation | Canadian Retired Athlete |
Keturah "Katie" Anderson (born 9 January 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica) [1] is a Canadian retired athlete specialising in the high hurdles. [2] She won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships.
She has personal bests of 12.61 in the 100 metres hurdles (1999) and 7.90 in the indoor 60 metres hurdles (1999 – former national record).
Colin Ray Jackson, is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion twice, world indoor champion once, was undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was twice Commonwealth champion. His world record of 12.91 seconds for the 110 m hurdles stood for over 10 years and his 60 metres hurdles world record stood for nearly 27 years.
Perdita Felicien is a Canadian retired hurdler. Felicien is the 2003 World champion in the 100 metres hurdles and 2004 World indoor champion in the 60 metres hurdles. She also won silver medals at the 2007 World Championships, the 2010 World Indoor Championships, and twice at the Pan American Games. Her best time for the 100 metres hurdles of 12.46 secs from 2004 still stands as the Canadian record.
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Lucie Škrobáková is a Czech athlete who competes in the 60 metres hurdles and 100 metres hurdles. She is the 2001 European junior bronze medallist, and took the silver medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. Her personal best times are 12.73 seconds and 7.95 s in the 100 and 60 metres hurdles respectively.
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Claudia Marx is a German athlete. She runs in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She also competes in the German team in the 4 × 400 metres relay. She won the 400 metres at the German Athletics Championships in 2003 and 2004 and in the National Indoor Championships in 2005. She is 1.72 metres tall and weighs 59 kg. She currently studies sport sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. she came 4th in 400m hurdles.
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Tara Davis-Woodhall is an American track and field athlete. In 2017 she set the American junior women's record in the indoor long jump, and placed 6th in the women's long jump final at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She won the national title in the event in February 2023, but was stripped of it and suspended for one month after failing a drug test for cannabis use. She later won a silver medal in women's long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Davis-Woodhall is also a hurdler.
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