Ms. DEBBIE FERGUSON-MCKENZIE
See her carry the Bahamian Flag during
the opening
ceremony of the 2008 Olympics at Beijing.
Debbie finishes 7th in the 100M finals. Congrats!!! Great job!!!
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BEIJING (AP) — American and Jamaican sprinters grabbed six of the eight spots in the Olympic women's 100-meter final Sunday, with Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser and Kerron Stewart leading the way in their respective semifinals.
Defending Olympic champion Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus failed to advance.
Sherone Simpson was the third runner from Jamaica to make the gold-medal round, set for later Sunday, as the Caribbean island hoped someone could join men's champion Usain Bolt for a gold-medal sweep of track's glamour event.
America's three entrants, Lauryn Williams, Torri Edwards and Muna Lee, all made it, as well. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas and Jeanette Kwakye of Britain rounded out the final eight. Full Story
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- American and Jamaican sprinters will dominate the women's 100m final on Sunday evening at the Beijing Olympic Games.
One Jamaican favorite for the women's dash title Shelly-Ann Fraser led all the eight finalists in 11.00 seconds.
Torri Edwards, the biggest hope of the United States for the sprint title, was the third worst performer, due to her slow start with a reaction time of 0.174 second, into the finals.
Muna Lee and Lauryn Williams, both of the United States, as well as Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson, both from Jamaica, are expected to compete for the medals.
The rest two final slots are occupied by Jeanette Kwakye of
Britain and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of Bahamas.
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Nigeria's Oludamola Osayomi ran 11.13
seconds in round one of the Women's 100m at the Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games to qualify fastest for round two in tonight's preliminary events
at the National Stadium on August 16.
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas qualified second fastest with a
time of 11.17 seconds, while Poland's Daria Korczynska ran a personal
best time of 11.22 seconds to qualify in third place.
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In what could turn out to be her final Olympics, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie was honored with one final tribute by her teammates and officials of Team Bahamas last night.
For the second consecutive Olympiad, she was chosen as the flag bearer for The Bahamas, and now she can only hope that these Beijing Olympics end the same way the 2004 Games did for her — with a glorious medal winning run.
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Biography
A Bahamian “golden girl,” Debbie Ferguson was born on January 16, 1976 in
Nassau, Bahamas. A prodigious sprinter, Ferguson made her first
international appearance at the 1992 IAAF World Junior Championships
at age 16. Winner of the CAC’s 200m in 1995 and 100m in 1997, Ferguson won
the much coveted NCAA sprint double in 1998.
For her third appearance at the IAAF World Championships in Seville 1999, Ferguson anchored the Bahamas’ 4x100m relay team to an unprecedented gold medal which was the prelude to a superb 2000 Olympic Games. In Sydney, Ferguson was one of only two women to qualify for both the 100m and 200m final before producing a magnificent effort to anchor the Bahamas’ sprint relay team to Olympic glory.
Ferguson won her first World Championships individual medal in Edmonton 2001 (200m silver) and her first individual Olympic medal in Athens 2004 (200m bronze). She also completed a tremendous sprint double at the 2002 Commonwealth Games establishing Games records in both the 100m and 200m before grabbing her third medal of the championships with the 4x100m relay.
A Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations since 2003, Ferguson is a member of the IAAF Athletes’ Commission.
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