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Jamaican sprinter
Stephenie Ann McPherson (born 25 November 1988)
[2] is a Jamaican
track and field athlete, who specializes in the
400 metres . She has won a bronze medal in the event at the
2013 World Championships , and then placed in the finals of both the
2016 Rio Olympics and the
2020 Tokyo Olympics and all four following
World Championships between 2015 and 2022, consecutively. McPherson earned also a bronze at the
2022 World Indoor Championships . She added medals in the
4 x 400 metres relays , taking a silver at the 2016 Olympics, a gold in
2015 in
Beijing , and a bronze in
2019 .
In June 2021, McPherson went sub-50 seconds for the first time since 2013, the only year in which she had achieved it, setting her new personal best.
Career
McPherson was the silver medalist from the
2014 World Indoor Championships as a member of the
4 x 400 metres relay team.
[3] She took two gold medals at the
Commonwealth Games winning the individual 400 m and the 4x400 m relay.
[4] Within that same year, she added the gold medal at the
Continental Cup as a part of team America in the 4×400 m relay.
In 2022, McPherson won her second global medal after a bronze at the
2013 World Championships , taking also a bronze for the women's
400 metres at the
World Indoor Championships in
Belgrade, Serbia with a national indoor record of 50.79 seconds. Thus, she improved on her fourth place from the
2016 World Indoors .
[5] McPherson also anchored Jamaican women's 4 x 400 relay, winning
gold along with teammates
Junelle Bromfield ,
Janieve Russell , and
Roneisha McGregor .
[6]
Achievements
All information taken from World Athletics profile.
[2]
Personal bests
International competitions
Representing
Jamaica
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Result
2013
World Championships
Moscow, Russia
3rd
400 m
49.99
2014
World Indoor Championships
Sopot, Poland
2nd
4×400 m relay
3:26.54
Commonwealth Games
Glasgow, United Kingdom
1st
400 m
50.67
1st
4×400 m relay
3:23.82
Continental Cup
Marrakech, Morocco
1st
4×400 m relay
3:20.93
WL
[n 1]
2015
World Relays
Nassau, Bahamas
2nd
4×400 m relay
3:22.49
World Championships
Beijing, China
5th
400 m
50.42
1st
4×400 m relay
3:19.13 WL
2016
World Indoor Championships
Portland, United States
4th
400 m
52.20
DNF
4×400 m relay
DNF
Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6th
400 m
50.97
2nd
4×400 m relay
3:20.34
2017
World Relays
Nassau, Bahamas
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:28.49
World Championships
London ,
United Kingdom
6th
400 m
50.86
DNF
4×400 m relay
DNF
2018
World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
DQ
400 m
DQ
[n 2]
DQ
4×400 m relay
DQ
[n 3]
Commonwealth Games
Gold Coast ,
Australia
3rd
400 m
50.93
1st
4×400 m relay
3:24.00
World Cup
London, United Kingdom
1st
400 m
50.98
2nd
4×400 m relay
3:24.29
NACAC Championships
Toronto, Canada
1st
400 m
51.15
2nd
4×400 m relay
3:27.25
Continental Cup
Ostrava, Czech Republic
3rd
400 m
50.82
1st
4x400 m mixed
3:13.01
[n 1]
2019
World Relays
Yokohama, Japan
3rd
4×200 m relay
1:33.21
Pan American Games
Lima, Peru
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:27.61
World Championships
Doha, Qatar
6th
400 m
50.89
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:22.37
2021
Olympic Games
Tokyo, Japan
4th
400 m
49.61
2022
World Indoor Championships
Belgrade , Serbia
3rd
400 m i
50.79
1st
4x400 m relay i
3:28.40
SB
World Championships
Eugene, United States
5th
400 m
50.36
2nd
4x400 m relay
3:20.74
NACAC Championships
Freeport, Bahamas
3rd
400 m
50.36
Circuit wins and titles
National titles
Notes
^
a
b Representing Americas
^ Disqualified in the semi-finals; 163.3(a): Lane infringement
^ Disqualified in the final; 218.4: Exchanging position before takeover
^ According to
Jamaica Observer McPherson is a four-time national champion, however the newspaper's article has at least one other serious error
[9]
References
External links
1983 :
Kerstin Walther ,
Sabine Busch ,
Marita Koch ,
Dagmar Rübsam ,
Undine Bremer ,
Ellen Fiedler (GDR)
1987 :
Dagmar Neubauer ,
Kirsten Emmelmann ,
Petra Müller ,
Sabine Busch ,
Cornelia Ullrich (GDR)
1991 :
Tatyana Ledovskaya ,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova ,
Olga Nazarova ,
Olha Bryzhina ,
Anna Chuprina (URS)
1993 :
Gwen Torrence ,
Maicel Malone-Wallace ,
Natasha Kaiser ,
Jearl Miles ,
Terri Dendy ,
Michelle Collins (USA)
1995 :
Kim Graham ,
Rochelle Stevens ,
Camara Jones ,
Jearl Miles ,
Nicole Green (USA)
1997 :
Anke Feller ,
Uta Rohländer ,
Anja Rücker ,
Grit Breuer (GER)
1999 :
Tatyana Chebykina ,
Svetlana Goncharenko ,
Olga Kotlyarova ,
Natalya Nazarova ,
Natalya Sharova ,
Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)
2001 :
Sandie Richards ,
Catherine Scott-Pomales ,
Debbie-Ann Parris ,
Lorraine Fenton ,
Michelle Burgher ,
Deon Hemmings (JAM)
2003 :
Demetria Washington ,
Jearl Miles Clark ,
Me'Lisa Barber ,
Sanya Richards ,
DeeDee Trotter (USA)
2005 :
Yuliya Pechonkina ,
Olesya Krasnomovets ,
Natalya Antyukh ,
Svetlana Pospelova ,
Tatyana Firova ,
Olesya Zykina (RUS)
2007 :
DeeDee Trotter ,
Allyson Felix ,
Mary Wineberg ,
Sanya Richards ,
Monique Hennagan ,
Natasha Hastings (USA)
2009 :
Debbie Dunn ,
Allyson Felix ,
Lashinda Demus ,
Sanya Richards ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Jessica Beard (USA)
2011 :
Sanya Richards-Ross ,
Allyson Felix ,
Jessica Beard ,
Francena McCorory ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Keshia Baker (USA)
2013 :
Jessica Beard ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Ashley Spencer ,
Francena McCorory ,
Joanna Atkins (USA)
2015 :
Christine Day ,
Shericka Jackson ,
Stephenie Ann McPherson ,
Novlene Williams-Mills ,
Anastasia Le-Roy ,
Chrisann Gordon (JAM)
2017 :
Quanera Hayes ,
Allyson Felix ,
Shakima Wimbley ,
Phyllis Francis ,
Kendall Ellis ,
Natasha Hastings (USA)
2019 :
Phyllis Francis ,
Sydney McLaughlin ,
Dalilah Muhammad ,
Wadeline Jonathas ,
Jessica Beard ,
Allyson Felix ,
Kendall Ellis ,
Courtney Okolo (USA)
2022 :
Talitha Diggs ,
Abby Steiner ,
Britton Wilson ,
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ,
Kaylin Whitney ,
Allyson Felix ,
Jaide Stepter Baynes (USA)
2023 :
Eveline Saalberg ,
Lieke Klaver ,
Cathelijn Peeters ,
Femke Bol ,
Lisanne de Witte (NED)
1991:
Germany (
Seuser ,
Schreiter ,
Hesselbarth ,
Breuer )
1993:
Jamaica (
Hemmings ,
Grant ,
Rattray-Williams ,
Richards )
1995:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Ruzina ,
Kulikova ,
Goncharenko )
1997:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Goncharenko ,
Kotlyarova ,
Alekseyeva )
1999:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Goncharenko ,
Kotlyarova ,
Nazarova )
2001:
Russia (
Nosova ,
Zykina ,
Sotnikova ,
Kotlyarova )
2003:
Russia (
Antyukh ,
Pechonkina ,
Zykina ,
Nazarova )
2004:
Russia (
Krasnomovets ,
Kotlyarova ,
Levina ,
Nazarova )
2006:
Russia (
Levina ,
Nazarova ,
Krasnomovets ,
Antyukh )
2008:
Russia (
Gushchina ,
Levina ,
Nazarova ,
Zykina )
2010:
United States (
Dunn ,
Trotter ,
Hastings ,
Felix )
2012:
Great Britain (
Cox ,
Sanders ,
Ohuruogu ,
Shakes-Drayton )
2014:
United States (
Hastings ,
Atkins ,
McCorory ,
Tate ,
Hayes ,
Hargrove )
2016:
United States (
Hastings ,
Hayes ,
Okolo ,
Spencer )
2018:
United States (
Hayes ,
Moline ,
Wimbley ,
Okolo )
2022:
Jamaica (
Bromfield ,
Russell ,
McGregor ,
McPherson ,
James )
2024:
Netherlands (
Klaver ,
Peeters ,
De Witte ,
Bol ,
Van der Schoot ,
Saalberg )
440 yards (1966) 400 metres (1970–present)
1974 :
Roscoe ,
Kennedy ,
Pettett ,
Elder (
ENG )
1978 :
Hartley ,
Hoyte-Smith ,
Kennedy ,
Elder (
ENG )
1982 :
Crooks ,
Richardson ,
Killingbeck ,
Taylor (
CAN )
1986 :
Crooks ,
Payne ,
Killingbeck ,
Richardson (
CAN )
1990 :
Piggford ,
Stoute ,
Gunnell ,
Keough (
ENG )
1994 :
Smith ,
Goddard ,
Keough ,
Gunnell (
ENG )
1998 :
Andrews ,
Lewis ,
Naylor ,
Van Heer (
AUS )
2002 :
Hewitt ,
Freeman ,
Lewis ,
Pittman (
AUS )
2006 :
Pittman ,
Willis ,
Lewis ,
Hayward (
AUS )
2010 :
Mj. Kaur ,
Jose ,
Akkunji ,
Md. Kaur (
IND )
2014 :
Day ,
Williams-Mills ,
Le-Roy ,
McPherson (
JAM )
2018 :
Day ,
Le-Roy ,
Russell ,
McPherson (
JAM )
2022 :
Constantine ,
McDonald ,
Powell ,
Stiverne (
CAN )