Elaine Thompson-Herah
Country:
Jamaica
DOB:
June 28, 1992
Trains at:
Cameron Blazers
Events:
100m, 200m
Events:
100m, 200m
Height:
5 ft 6 in
Weight:
123 lb
Personal Bests and National Records:
100m – 10.55 (+0.9w) (Oregon 2021); 200m – 21.53 (+0.8) (Tokyo 2021)
Thompson-Herah left MVP Track Club to train independently under the guidance of her husband, Derron Herah and Bertland Cameron at Kingston-based Mico University, home of Cameron Blazers Track Club.
She is the first woman to retain the Olympic sprint double titles (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 in 2021). Her personal bests were the second fastest after Florence Griffith-Joyner in the 1980s.