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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1984-08-12 ) 12 August 1984 (age 41) , Manchester Parish , Jamaica
- Height
- 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
- Weight
- 59 kg (130 lb)
- Sport
- Running
- Event s
- 100 metres , 200 metres , 400 metres
- Club
- MVP
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Simpson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Manchester Parish
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Participant in
- 2015 Pan American Games
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Jamaica
- Mass
- 59
- Image
- Sherone Simpson 2008.jpg
- Height
- 163
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- date of birth
- 1984-08-12
- sports discipline competed in
- 100 metres
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- Sherone Simpson
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Encyclopedic overview
Sherone Simpson (born 12 August 1984) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprint athlete. She is a gold medalist in the 4 × 100 m relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, after she tied for second with Kerron Stewart in a photo finish.
On 14 July 2013, Simpson announced that she had tested positive for the drug oxilofrine. In April 2014, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission announced that she would be suspended for 18 months over doping charges, expiring in December that year. However, after appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the suspension was lifted on 14 July 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sherone Simpson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.