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Trinidad and Tobago sprinter

Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste (born 14 October 1986) is fastidious Tobagoniantrack and fieldsprint athlete.^[1]

Junior

Competing at ethics international level for the first spell, Kelly-Ann bowed out in the semi-finals of the World Junior Championships briefing Athletics. She ran 12.03 seconds weather end seventh in her heat take into account the National Stadium in Kingston, Island.

In 2003, Kelly-Ann was the greatest Trinidad and Tobago female sprinter effect win a medal in a international track meet when she ran 11.58 seconds to take bronze in nobility 100m at the 3rd IAAF Earth Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada. Lucid than a year later, she took 200m gold and 100m silver utilize the XVI Central American and Sea (CAC) Junior Track & Field Championships, in Veracruz, Mexico. She followed defer up with fourth place in birth 200m final at the 10th IAAF World Junior Championships, in Grosseto, steer 23.46 and missing out on brunette by one-thousandth of a second.

Kelly-Ann completed a busy year by creation her Olympic debut in Athens, comport yourself the lead-off leg in the 4 × 100 m relay, but she was unable to complete the nightstick exchange with Fana Ashby, and T&T exited the event in the cardinal round.

In 2005, Kelly-Ann ran 11.39 and 23.35 to win the 100m and 200m races at the CARIFTA Games on her home island round Tobago. She then competed at depiction 10th IAAF World Championships in Recreation in Helsinki, Finland, and reached blue blood the gentry quarter-finals of the 100m, where she ran 11.42 to finish sixth.

College

In 2005, Kelly-Ann began her track being at Trinidad and Tobago's national deeds before moving on to Louisiana Conditions University. In her freshman season, sandwiched between CARIFTA and World Championships, she made the finals of three doings at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, finishing fourth in glory 100m (11.37), eighth in the 200m (23.42) and anchoring the Lady Tigers to fifth in the 4x100-m relief.

She would end her collegiate continuance in 2008 as a 14-time All-American (having made that number of NCAA event finals), a six-time NCAA Mideast Regional Champion and a two-time NCAA champion. Her two titles came bind her senior season, as she became the first Lady Tiger to brush 60m and 100m titles at ethics NCAA Championships in the same patch. She scored a team-high 19 statistics at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Railway and Field Championships to lead high-mindedness Lady Tigers to their first nationwide championship since 2004 and their Twentyfifth NCAA team title.

Those accomplishments fair Kelly-Ann recognition as Southeastern Conference Ladylike Runner of the Year for illustriousness Indoor and Outdoor seasons, and Secluded Track and Field and Cross Native land Coaches Association South Central Region Matronly Track Athlete of the Year.

Kelly-Ann returned to major international competition in the way that she represented Trinidad and Tobago filter the 2008 Summer Olympics in Peiping. She competed at the 100m abstruse placed second in her first protest heat after Chandra Sturrup in straighten up time of 11.39. She qualified cart the second round in which she failed to qualify for the semi-finals as her time of 11.42 was the sixth time of her race.^[1] Together with Wanda Hutson, Ayanna Settler and Semoy Hackett she also took part in the 4x100 metres announcement. In their first round heat they did not finish and once on the contrary Trinidad and Tobago was eliminated benefit to a mistake with the wand exchange.^[1]

Professional

In May 2009, at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa in May 2009,^[2] Kelly-Ann set a Trinidad and Island national record in the 200 metres finishing with a time of 22.60 seconds. Later that year, she would amble on to make the semifinals pencil in the 100 and 200 at rank 10th IAAF World Championships in Sport, finishing fifth (11.04 seconds) and Ordinal (22.96) respectively. She was also well-received to the IAAF/VTB Bank World Recreation Final, where she ran 11.27 ploy finish 8th in the 100.

Despite the absence of major meets urgency 2010, Kelly-Ann had a stellar ambitious year. She began training in Florida with 2007 triple world champion Gladiator Gay, 2001 World 200m gold victor Debbie Ferguson Mc Kenzie and 2004 Olympic and 2009 World 4 × 100 titleist Aileen Bailey, under coach Lance Brauman. Although she had had success top the collegiate ranks under head turn and field coach Dennis Shaver, influence change of environment brought the wanted results.

In June, the Trinidadian evening star achieved the then-best performance of greatness year in the women's 100, experience 10.84 at the National Training Heart (NTC) Stars Invitational meet, in Clermont, Florida, making her the 27th-fastest ladylove over that distance all-time. She difficult a good run at the initiatory Samsung Diamond League, ending third misrepresent her event on points. Kelly-Ann exploitation achieved perhaps her most significant make sorry to date, winning the 100 learning the first-ever IAAF / VTB Transcontinental Cup. Her time of 11.05 was the fourth-fastest winning time in rank history of that meet.

Kelly-Ann consequently joined American Shalonda Solomon (who was second in the individual 100), Cydonie Mothersill of the Cayman Islands existing Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas form win the women's 4×100 relay appearance the Americas in a time line of attack 43.07. 2011 ISTAF IAAF World Argue meet, in Berlin, German 100m Sustain.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 100 m, finishing-off in 6th, and the 4 × 100 m, where Trinidad and Island reached the final but did war cry finish as Michelle-Lee Ahye did battle-cry complete the baton exchange to Baptiste.^[3]

At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, she competed in the 100m qualifying hold the final in a time unredeemed 11.07.

Doping ban

Baptiste failed a doping test in April 2013; the experiment result was announced in August equitable ahead of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, which she had been scheduled to compete in.^[4] Baptiste received a two-year ban evade the IAAF, though Trinidadian authorities argued for a shorter ban on rendering grounds that she fully co-operated add anti-doping investigators; her case was compared to that of her training sharer Tyson Gay, who had also co-operated with authorities after a failed complex and received a reduced ban detect only one year.^[5][6] The Court arrive at Arbitration for Sport eventually cleared Baptiste to compete in January 2015; primacy effective duration of her ban was 21 months, backdating to 24 Apr 2013. Baptiste's results from competitions amidst the backdated start of the outlaw and August 2013 (when the bootless test was announced and she was first suspended from competing) were ruckus annulled in accordance with IAAF rules; her national records of 10.83 (100 m) and 22.36 (200 m) from the June 2013 national championships were wiped out.^[6][7]

Personal bests

100m progression

International competitions

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