LaTasha Jenkins
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Women's athletics | ||
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World Championships | ||
2001 Edmonton | 200 m |
LaTasha Jenkins (born December 19, 1977) is an American former track and field sprinter. Having won international medals in the 200 m, she won a silver medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 2001 Outdoor Championships. Other career highlights include 2001 U.S. Indoor 200m champion; 1999 and 2001 US Outdoor runner-up, 200m; 1999 NCAA 200m champion; four-time NCAA All-American; member of world record-holding 4 × 200 m relay team. She was born in Chicago and attended Oak Lawn Polaris High School.[1]
After winning the 1999 NCAA 200m title and finishing second to Marion Jones at the U.S. Championships, Jenkins was poised to make her mark on the international scene, but a collapsed lung she suffered on the flight to the 1999 World University Games forced her to with withdraw from that meet as well as the World Championships. She recovered in 2000 and in 2001 had terrific results under new coach Norbert Elliott in Georgia, winning her first U.S. title indoors and winning silver at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. She went on to finish runner-up to Jones outdoors at 200m and was fourth at the World Outdoor Championships. She graduated from Ball State University with a degree in English and a minor in counseling psychology. She scored 25 points at the Mid-American meet in 1998, and her 1999 NCAA crown was the first ever national championship for Ball State women's track & field.[1]
Jenkins holds a world record, as a member of the American 4 × 200 m relay team that ran 1:27.46 on April 29, 2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the other team members being LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry and Marion Jones. Note that 4 × 200 m is not a regular track event and not a part of the program for any major international championship.
According to the Chicago Tribune on August 25, 2006, Jenkins had her A sample fail in a drugs test taken in late July that year. The discovered substance was nandrolone. Latasha Jenkins appealed the alleged tests and was later exonerated of all charges. She is the only athlete in history to win an anti-doping case against USADA. WADA agreed with the findings of the USADA verdict and dropped their appeal.
Latasha Jenkins was inducted in the Ball State University Sports Hall of Fame in February 2009.
References
- ^ a b Latasha Jenkins. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-06-28.
- LaTasha Jenkins at World Athletics
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Preceded by | Women's 200 m Season's Best Performance alongside Debbie Ferguson 2001 | Succeeded by |
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1926: Frances Keddie
- 1927: Ellen Brough
- 1928OT: Florence Wright
- 1929: Maybelle Gilliland
- 1930–1931: Stella Walsh
- 1932OT–1933 Olive Hasenfus
- 1934: not held
- 1935: Helen Stephens
- 1936: Beverly Hobbs
- 1937: Gertrude Johnson
- 1938: Fanny Vitale
- 1939–1940: Stella Walsh
- 1941: Jean Lane
- 1942–1948: Stella Walsh
- 1949–1950: Nell Jackson
- 1951: Jean Patton
- 1952: Catherine Hardy
- 1953: Dolores Dwyer
- 1954–1956: Mae Faggs
- 1957: Isabelle Daniels
- 1958: Lucinda Williams
- 1959: Isabelle Daniels
- 1960: Wilma Rudolph
- 1961: Lacey O'Neal
- 1962–1963: Vivian Brown
- 1964–1965: Edith McGuire
- 1966: Wyomia Tyus
- 1967: Diana Wilson
- 1968: Wyomia Tyus
- 1969: Barbara Ferrell
- 1970: Chi Cheng (TWN) * Williomae Fergerson
- 1971: Raelene Boyle (AUS) * Kathie Lawson
- 1972: Alice Annum (GHA) * (3) Pamela Greene
- 1973: Mable Fergerson
- 1974: Alice Annum (GHA) * Fran Sichting
- 1975: Debra Armstrong
- 1976: Brenda Morehead
- 1977–1979: Evelyn Ashford
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Karen Hawkins
- 1981: Evelyn Ashford
- 1982: Merlene Ottey (JAM) * Florence Griffith
- 1983: Evelyn Ashford
- 1984 Merlene Ottey (JAM) * (3) Pam Marshall
- 1985 Merlene Ottey (JAM) * Pam Marshall
- 1986–1987: Pam Marshall
- 1988: Gwen Torrence
- 1989: Dannette Young
- 1990: Grace Jackson (JAM) * Dannette Young
- 1991–1992OT: Gwen Torrence
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Gwen Torrence
- 1994: Carlette Guidry-White
- 1995: Gwen Torrence
- 1996OT: Carlette Guidry-White
- 1997: Inger Miller
- 1998–2000OT: Marion Jones
- 2001: LaTasha Jenkins
- 2002: Stephanie Durst
- 2003: Torri Edwards
- 2004OT–2005: Allyson Felix
- 2006: Rachelle Boone-Smith
- 2007–2009OT: Allyson Felix
- 2010: Connie Moore
- 2011: Shalonda Solomon
- 2012OT: Allyson Felix
- 2013: Kimberlyn Duncan
- 2014: Jeneba Tarmoh
- 2015: Jenna Prandini
- 2016OT: Tori Bowie
- 2017: Deajah Stevens
- 2018: Jenna Prandini
- 2019: Dezerea Bryant
- 20212020 OT: Gabrielle Thomas
- 2022: Abby Steiner
- OT: 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- Distance:The event was over 220 yards until 1932, 1955, 1957-8, 1961-3, 1965-6, 1969-70 and 1973-4
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.