🇯🇲Jamaica
Melaine Walker
Track & Field — 400m Hurdles
Melaine Walker is a Jamaican 400m hurdler and former Olympic champion. She set the Olympic record of 52.64 seconds at the 2008 Beijing Games and followed it with the second fastest time in history — 52.42s — at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. A past student of St. Jago High School, she competed for the Texas Longhorns at the University of Texas.
Birthdate
March 1, 1983
Personal Best
52.42s (400m hurdles) — 2nd fastest in history at time of performance
Global Reach
8 MILLION
University
University of Texas
Roles
Athlete
Achievements
- •2008 Olympic gold medalist — 400m hurdles (Olympic record: 52.64s)
- •2009 World Champion — 400m hurdles (52.42s, 2nd fastest ever at the time)
- •World Championship gold and silver medalist
- •2-time CAC Games medalist
- •4-time World Junior medalist
- •10-time Carifta Games medalist
- •World Youth Championship medalist
- •2005 NCAA Division I champion — 4×400m relay (Texas Longhorns)