VCB eyes athletic legacy

[Sickko]

Yes I saw it and left it there...She is KING of all Jamaican athletes male or female right now

[Rudi]

King? How many word records does she have? You started this comparison but the fact is Bolt has three.

[Sickko]

Hold on boss, you might be in the wrong discussion....you see anybody here talking about records????

This might not even be a sport you are familiar with...Bolt has TWO World Record of his own and he shares a third as one man cannot hold the 4x100m record...it is the Jamaican press that gets carried away and chat fought about "triple world record holder"

[Peter R]

So the other three guys who ran the 4x100 don't hold a world record either? So who holds the record??

When ManU win a CL title don't we attribute the title to each player who participated? I saw where someone had put up a picture, on this site, a while back, of Giggs' trophy cabinet saying HE had won X number of this and Y number of that...

[Sickko]

Jamaica holds the record

[Peter R]

If that is the case they should award ONE gold medal to be kept by the JAAA on behalf of Jamaica... mi waan mi medal from dem guy deh! LOL

So my football analogy didn't carry any weight? oh well...

[Willi]

There is only one Usain St. Leo Bolt.

All 100 years from now dem aggo talk bout him like seh him still ah run.

[Willi]

If is Medals, merlene have 14....

[Sickko]

VCB has 12 individual and five relays

[Gamma]

how much dat? 17?

[Sickko]

I have to knock me chest and start counting...give me a little time to sort it out

[Gamma]

not to hard now...remember yuh chess fragile....an' mine yuh "contract" cold!

[Rudi]

Unuh too funny.

[Willi]

Ottey has more (20 not counting idoors):

Ottey is also one of only two athletes to win twenty medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships (combined) the other is Carl Lewis.

Ottey holds the record for running the fastest women's Indoor 200 metres, in 21.87 seconds. This record has now stood for 18 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

Recall that half the WChamps were spaced every 4 years during Merlene's time, so she like could have had 12 or so medals here with the higher frequency! That could have made a 24 medal haul!!!!!

Ottey ranks at number three on the list of the top ten all time athletes on the 200 meters - women, and number six on the 100 meter list.
Ottey is the first female athlete to run 60 meters under seven seconds — and 200 metres under 22 seconds [ indoors]. She has also clocked the fastest 100 and 200 meters 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 meters—the most consecutive wins over 100 meters for a female, and 34 consecutive wins at 200 meters.
Ottey has recorded the fastest 100 metres time for any female athlete at age 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, and age 40. The exception is age 31 as Carmelita Jeter ran 10.70sec in June 2011 to improve on Ottey's 10.79 at that age.
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 ).[11]
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 track and field medalist when she anchored the Jamaican women's 4×100 meters 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 medalist.
Ottey is also one of only two athletes to win twenty medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships (combined) the other is Carl Lewis.
Ottey holds the record for running the fastest women's Indoor 200 metres, in 21.87 seconds. This record has now stood for 18 years and remains the only sub 22sec clocking by a woman indoors.

[Willi]

Are you counting Indoors and Commonwealth?

If so, leave those out. I dont count that for Merlene.

For VC, I have a total of FOURTEEN OLY and WChamp medals, of which 5 are relay medals.

By year:
1 relay medal in 2000
3 in 2004 (1 relay)
2 in 2005 (1 relay)
3 in 2007 (1 relay)
1 in 2008
1 in 2009
3 in 2011 (1 relay)
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Total of 14 with 5 relays

Ottey still rules and we dont even talk PBs yet!
10.74s
21.64s
22.87s indoors
6.96s 60m
Personal Bests: 100 - 10.74 (1996); 200 - 21.64 (1991); 400 - 51.12 (1983).

VCB still has work to do on the quantity side. Quality of medals she is on top, BUT...

World Indoor Championships
Gold1989 Budapest200 m Gold1991 Seville200 m Gold1995 Barcelona60 m Silver1987 Indianapolis200 m Silver1991 Seville60 m Bronze1989 Budapest60 m

Commonwealth Games
Gold1982 Brisbane200 m Gold1990 Auckland200 m Gold1990 Auckland100 m Silver1982 Brisbane100 m