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Bobby-Gaye Wilkins

Jamaican athlete (born 1988)

Updated on 26 January 2015.

Bobby-Gaye Wilkins (born 10 September 1988) is a Jamaican athlete who represented Jamaica at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, winning a bronze medal in the 4×400 metres relay.

Her first major international appearance came at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she reached the final of the 400 metres.

She was selected as a reserve for the relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but she did not compete. She reached the semi-finals of the 400:m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but enjoyed greater success in the women's relay: along with Clora Williams, Davita Prendergast and Novlene Williams-Mills, she won the bronze medal in a Jamaican indoor record of 3:28.49 (also a Central American and Caribbean record).

However, she failed her drug test at the compe*ion, and the Jamaican team was disqualified. Her sample contained andarine (a selective androgen receptor modulator), making her the second international runner to test positive for the cl* of anabolic drugs, after Thomas Goller. She received a two-year ban from compe*ive athletics for the infraction.

Contents

  • 1 Personal bests
  • 2 Achievements
  • 3 See also
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Personal bests

Achievements

1: Competed only in the heat.

See also

  • List of doping cases in athletics

References

    External links

    • Bobby-Gaye Wilkins at World Athletics
    • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as *le (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
    • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Bobby-Gaye Wilkins". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.