Tonique Williams
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Bahamas
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | 400 m |
| World Championships | ||
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2005 Helsinki | 400 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2006 Melbourne | 400 m |
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CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) |
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1995 George Town | 4x100m relay |
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1992 Nassau | 4x400 m relay |
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1993 Fort-de-France | 4x100m relay |
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1993 Fort-de-France | 4x400m relay |
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1994 Bridgetown | 400m |
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1994 Bridgetown | 4x100m relay |
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1994 Bridgetown | 4x400m relay |
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1995 George Town | 400m |
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1995 George Town | 4x400m relay |
Tonique Williams-Darling (born January 17, 1976 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian sprint athlete. She won the gold medal in the 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She graduated from St. John's College Bahamas (high school).
She attended the University of South Carolina, graduating with a bachelor's degree from the Moore School of Business in 1999.
Williams-Darling had a breakout year in 2004. She started with a bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary, running a personal best behind Russia's Natalya Nazarova and Olesya Krasnomovets. Then in July, at the Rome meeting of the IAAF Golden League, Tonique broke Mexican world champion Ana Guevara's 23 race winning streak in the 400 meter race.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Williams-Darling beat Guevara again. In a head to head final straight, she proved to be more powerful than the Mexican runner who had been hampered with injuries and trained only on a limited basis prior to the Games. Winning the race, she became the Bahamas' first individual Olympic gold medalist.
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