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Merlene Joyce Ottey ON OJ OD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012.
Having taken a 200m bronze in LA in 1984, when she was expected to win gold, Ottey was inched out of the medals altogether in Seoul eight years later by Heike Drechsler and so became the first athlete to finish fourth while dipping under 22 seconds (21.99).
May 10, 2021 · Merlene Joyce Ottey has spent a great deal of her life surrounded by the track and a cheering audience. For a large part of that life, she was considered the greatest sprinter male or female in Jamaica's history.
First female Jamaican medallist at 200m. Her very long Olympic career began at the Moscow Games in 1980. She finished sixth with the Jamaican relay team in the final. But it was in the 200m that she shone to take the bronze medal, an Olympic first by a female athlete in her country.
On May 10, 1960, in the small village of Cold Spring, Hanover, the world welcome Merlene Joyce Ottey, an extraordinary athlete who became the first woman from the English-speaking Caribbean to win an Olympic Games medal when she claimed bronze in the 200m at the 1980 Moscow edition.
The Bronze Queen: Merlene Ottey and the Undying Pursuit of Olympic Gold Nine Olympic medals. Countless records broken. A career spanning four decades. Yet, the crown jewel of athletic glory,...
Merlene Ottey was the 1st Caribbean woman to win an Olympic medal. She's the only track and field athlete to participate in 7 different Olympics, ... where she represented Jamaica in the first 6 and Slovenia in Athens 2004.
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