Janieve Russell

Janieve Russell

Janieve Russell at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1993-11-14) November 14, 1993 (age 23)
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country	Jamaica
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	400m hurdles
Medal record Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 4×400 m relay 2014 Glasgow 400 m hurdles World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona 400 m hurdles 2012 Barcelona 4×400 m relay

Janieve Russell (born 14 November 1993) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 400 metres hurdles and the 400 metres sprint. Her personal bests for the events are 53.96 seconds and 51.17 seconds, respectively. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she was the 400 m hurdles bronze medallist and a 4×400 metres relay gold medallist.

Russell was highly successful as a youth and junior level athlete. She was a nine-time gold medallist at the CARIFTA Games and a double gold medallist at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, winning the 400 metres hurdles and the 4×400 m relay. She also won a relay medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

She has also competed in the heptathlon and was the 2011 Jamaican champion in the event.

Born in Manchester, Jamaica, she attended Holmwood Technical High School in Christiana and competed in a variety of track and field events while there. She 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. She returned at the 2009 CARIFTA Games and won that title, setting a personal best of 6.06 m (19 ft 10 ¹⁄₂ in) in the process. At the competition she was also the high jump bronze medallist, double gold medallist in the 4×100 and 4×400 metres relays, and set a games record in the 300 metres hurdles as well. She 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.