1. Janieve Russell was born on 14 November 1993 and is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 400 metres hurdles and the 400 metres sprint.
16 Facts About Janieve Russell
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Janieve Russell won an Olympic bronze medal in the relay in Tokyo 2021, where she finished fourth in the 400m hurdles final in a personal best of 53.08 secs.
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Janieve Russell is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, winning the 400m hurdles title in 2018 and 2022, and the relay in 2014 and 2018.
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Janieve Russell has won two relay silvers at the World Championships and a relay gold at the World Indoor Championships.
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Janieve Russell won a relay medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
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Janieve Russell was in the top three of both the high jump and long jump at the Jamaican High School Championships in 2008 and made her international debut shortly after, taking the under-17 long jump silver at the 2008 CARIFTA Games.
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Janieve Russell was among the contenders in the long jump at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, but was twenty centimetres off her best in the final and finished in ninth place.
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Janieve Russell still entered the long jump individually, and placed fourth.
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Janieve Russell was selected for the same events at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
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Janieve Russell competed internationally in her fourth different event of the season, choosing the long jump for the 2010 Youth Olympics and placing seventh in the competition.
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The 2011 season saw Janieve Russell set personal bests in all the disciplines she competed in, bar the jumps.
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Janieve Russell focused on the 400 metres hurdles at the start of the year, which culminated in a victory in the under-19 section of the 2011 CARIFTA Games in a personal best of 57.71 seconds.
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Janieve Russell won relay gold with the Jamaican team at the competition.
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Janieve Russell began to specialise more in the hurdles in 2012.
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Janieve Russell's season focused on the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
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Janieve Russell was dominant at the competition and won the gold medal by a margin of over a second, setting a new best time of 56.62 seconds.