Merlene Ottey - Records and Achievements

Records and Achievements

• Ottey ranks at number three on the list of the top ten all time athletes on the 200 metres – women, and number six on the 100 metre list.
• Ottey is the first female athlete to run 60 metres under seven seconds — and 200 metres under 22 seconds . She has also clocked the fastest 100 and 200 metres in the same day.
• Ottey has run 100 metres under eleven seconds — 67 times ( plus 9 wind-assisted ) a record among female sprinters.
• Ottey has 57 consecutive wins in 100 metres — the most consecutive wins over 100 metres for a female, and 34 consecutive wins at 200 metres.
• Ottey holds the official World Masters Athletics world records in the 100 m and 200 m for the age groups W35 ( 100- 10.74 in 1996, 200- 21.93 in 1995 ) W40 ( 100- 10.99 in 2000, 200- 22.74 in 2004 ) W45 ( 100- 11.34 in 2006, 200- 23.82 in 2006 ) W50 ( 100- 11.67 in 2010, 200 24.33 in 2010 ).
• Ottey is the first from the Western Hemisphere (outside the USA) to win two individual medals at the same games.
• At the 1995 World Championships, Ottey became the oldest ever female gold medallist when she won the 200 m at age 35 years 92 days. At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, she became the oldest female medallist ever at 37 years 90 days, when she won the bronze medal. In the 2000 Olympics, at age 40, Ottey became the oldest female track and field medalist when she anchored the Jamaican women's 4×100 metres to a silver medal. With the disqualification of Marion Jones, she was awarded the bronze medal in the 100 metres, making her the oldest individual medallist.
• Ottey is also one of only two athletes to win twenty medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships (combined).
• Ottey holds the record for running the fastest women's Indoor 200 metres, in 21.87 seconds. This record has now stood for 19 years and remains the only sub 22sec clocking by a woman indoors.
• In six World Championships competing for Jamaica, Ottey has won fourteen medals: three gold, four silver and seven bronze medals, while at the Olympics she has earned three silver and six bronze medals.
• Ottey was the first female Caribbean athlete to win an Olympic medal.
• Ottey has won more Olympic medals than any other female athlete in the Western Hemisphere.
• Ottey's Olympics Medals:
  • Moscow 1980 200 m Bronze
  • Los Angeles 1984 100 m & 200 m Bronze
  • Barcelona 1992 200 m Bronze
  • Atlanta 1996 100 m & 200 m Silver & 4 x 100 m relay Bronze
  • Sydney 2000 4 x 100 m relay Silver & 100 m Bronze (the Bronze awarded after American Marion Jones had her gold medal revoked by the IOC in 2009)
• Ottey has the most World Championships medals ( male or female ) with fourteen:
  • Helsinki 1983 200 m Silver & 4 x 100 m relay Bronze
  • Rome 1987 100 m & 200 m Bronze
  • Tokyo 1991 100 m & 200 m Bronze & 4 x 100 m relay Gold
  • Stuttgart 1993 100 m Silver & 200 m Gold & 4 x 100 m relay Bronze
  • Gothenburg 1995 100 m Silver & 200 m Gold & 4 x 100 m relay Silver
  • Athens 1997 200 m Bronze