Ayanna Alexander
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Nationality | Trinidadian | ||||||||||||
Born | Trinidad & Tobago |
20 July 1982 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Sport | athletics | ||||||||||||
Event(s) | Triple jump, Long jump | ||||||||||||
College team | Louisiana Tech | ||||||||||||
Coached by | Emanuel "Skeeter" Jackson | ||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 14.40 m | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 9 January 2015. |
Ayanna Alexander is a track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who is the first and only women in the country's history to compete at an Olympic games in the women's triple jump. Ayanna competes primarily in the triple jump and some times the long jump.[1][2][3] She competed in track and field collegiately in the United States at Louisiana Tech University and at McLean High School in McLean, VA. She is the Trinidad and Tobago national record holder in the triple jump at 14.40 meters.[4] and is the first and only athlete from Trinidad and Tobago to qualify in the triple jump for the Olympic Games.[5]
Personal bests
Event | Result | Venue | Date |
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Outdoor | |||
100 m | 12.26 s (wind: +0.1 m/s) | Port of Spain | 13 Aug 2011 |
200 m | 24.85 s (wind: -1.4 m/s) | Lafayette, Louisiana | 19 Mar 2005 |
400 m | 55.29 s | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | 16 Mar 2002 |
100 m hurdles | 14.60 s (wind: +1.4 m/s) (ht) | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 13 May 2005 |
Long jump | 6.28 m (wind: +1.3 m/s) | Port of Spain | 24 Jun 2012 |
Triple jump | 14.40 m (wind: 0.0 m/s) | Alexandria, Virginia | 28 Aug 2014 |
Indoor | |||
Long jump | 5.93 m | Fairfax, Virginia | 26 Jan 2013 |
Triple jump | 13.99 m | Blacksburg, Virginia | 20 Feb 2010 |
Competition record
References
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External links
- Ayanna Alexander profile at IAAF
- Sports reference biography
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from August 2012
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- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Female triple jumpers
- Trinidad and Tobago triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Trinidad and Tobago
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Trinidad and Tobago
- Louisiana Tech University alumni
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Trinidad and Tobago
- People from Port of Spain
- Trinidad and Tobago female athletes