Recent from talks
Jacqueline Pusey
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Jacqueline Pusey
Jacqueline "Jackie" Pusey (born 14 August 1959) is a Jamaican former track and field sprinter. She competed over distances from 100 metres to 400 metres. She represented Jamaica at the 1976 Summer Olympics (being their youngest entrant at age 16) and competed a second time at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Pusey won Jamaica's first world championship relay medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, running in the 4×100 metres relay. She had her career peak in 1981 when she won bronze medals in the individual 400 m and relay at the 1981 IAAF World Cup and set two championship records to take a 200 metres/400 metres double at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics. As a result of her achievements that year, she was given the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year award.
Born in Saint Mary Parish, Pusey attended St Mary High School and established herself as a promising sprinter at the Girls School Championships by breaking the 200 metres championship record. At the age of fifteen she took the 4×400 metres relay gold medal at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics and was a 200 metres silver medallist at the senior 1975 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics behind Lorna Forde.
Pusey made her Olympic debut at the age of sixteen and she was the youngest member of the Jamaican team for the 1976 Summer Olympics. She reached the semi-finals of the women's 200 m and helped the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay team to sixth place. She also ran with the 4×400 m relay team, but the Jamaican women failed to get the baton to the finish in the first round.
Pusey found senior success at regional level during her teenage years, repeating her 200 m silver medal at the 1977 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics (this time behind Silvia Chivás), and a 4 × 100 m relay silver medal with Jamaica at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games. She was fifth place in the 200 m at the higher level 1979 Pan American Games. In junior level competitions she amassed many medals. She was the 100/200 m runner-up at the 1976 CARIFTA Games behind Bermuda's Debbie Jones, defeated Jones to win the 400 m at the 1977 CARIFTA Games, before ending her junior career with a quadruple gold medal win at the 1978 CARIFTA Games – she won the 200 m, 400 m, and both relays.
Pusey sprinted in the AIAW for the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles track and field team, finishing 3rd in the 200 m at the 1980 AIAW Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Pusey was again selected for the 200 m and the relay teams for the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the women's 200 m she achieved a personal best run of 22.90 seconds in the semi-finals, but in fifth place she was narrowly outside of qualification for the final. The first relay event for Pusey was the 4×400 m. A quartet of Ruth Williams-Simpson, Pusey, Cathy Rattray and Merlene Ottey failed to progress beyond the first round. The shorter relay gave Pusey a better chance of an Olympic medal, with Ottey, Leleith Hodges and Rose Allwood being some of the Caribbean's best sprinters.
Despite the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team being the highest calibre one yet, practice for that event had not gone well, with Ottey repeatedly starting too early and not facilitating the change over with her teammates. The rest of the team felt Ottey overly focused on her individual events, to the detriment of the team event. Pusey also felt affronted by Ottey's demand to run the anchor leg of the relay (a position Pusey felt was her speciality) and the friction between the two athletes led to a last minute change. Allwood switched the middle legs with Pusey so she would not handover to Ottey, with Hodges remaining as starter. In the Olympic final, the team remained in contention until the final changeover, at which point Ottey again began too quickly, leading to a poor baton changeover. The team still ran a Jamaican national record of 43.19 seconds in sixth place, but Pusey felt her best chance of winning an Olympic medal was lost due to Ottey's mistake. Shortly after the Olympics, Pusey ran a personal best for the 200 m in London, recording a time of 22.82 seconds.
Hub AI
Jacqueline Pusey AI simulator
(@Jacqueline Pusey_simulator)
Jacqueline Pusey
Jacqueline "Jackie" Pusey (born 14 August 1959) is a Jamaican former track and field sprinter. She competed over distances from 100 metres to 400 metres. She represented Jamaica at the 1976 Summer Olympics (being their youngest entrant at age 16) and competed a second time at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Pusey won Jamaica's first world championship relay medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, running in the 4×100 metres relay. She had her career peak in 1981 when she won bronze medals in the individual 400 m and relay at the 1981 IAAF World Cup and set two championship records to take a 200 metres/400 metres double at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics. As a result of her achievements that year, she was given the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year award.
Born in Saint Mary Parish, Pusey attended St Mary High School and established herself as a promising sprinter at the Girls School Championships by breaking the 200 metres championship record. At the age of fifteen she took the 4×400 metres relay gold medal at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics and was a 200 metres silver medallist at the senior 1975 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics behind Lorna Forde.
Pusey made her Olympic debut at the age of sixteen and she was the youngest member of the Jamaican team for the 1976 Summer Olympics. She reached the semi-finals of the women's 200 m and helped the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay team to sixth place. She also ran with the 4×400 m relay team, but the Jamaican women failed to get the baton to the finish in the first round.
Pusey found senior success at regional level during her teenage years, repeating her 200 m silver medal at the 1977 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics (this time behind Silvia Chivás), and a 4 × 100 m relay silver medal with Jamaica at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games. She was fifth place in the 200 m at the higher level 1979 Pan American Games. In junior level competitions she amassed many medals. She was the 100/200 m runner-up at the 1976 CARIFTA Games behind Bermuda's Debbie Jones, defeated Jones to win the 400 m at the 1977 CARIFTA Games, before ending her junior career with a quadruple gold medal win at the 1978 CARIFTA Games – she won the 200 m, 400 m, and both relays.
Pusey sprinted in the AIAW for the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles track and field team, finishing 3rd in the 200 m at the 1980 AIAW Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Pusey was again selected for the 200 m and the relay teams for the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the women's 200 m she achieved a personal best run of 22.90 seconds in the semi-finals, but in fifth place she was narrowly outside of qualification for the final. The first relay event for Pusey was the 4×400 m. A quartet of Ruth Williams-Simpson, Pusey, Cathy Rattray and Merlene Ottey failed to progress beyond the first round. The shorter relay gave Pusey a better chance of an Olympic medal, with Ottey, Leleith Hodges and Rose Allwood being some of the Caribbean's best sprinters.
Despite the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team being the highest calibre one yet, practice for that event had not gone well, with Ottey repeatedly starting too early and not facilitating the change over with her teammates. The rest of the team felt Ottey overly focused on her individual events, to the detriment of the team event. Pusey also felt affronted by Ottey's demand to run the anchor leg of the relay (a position Pusey felt was her speciality) and the friction between the two athletes led to a last minute change. Allwood switched the middle legs with Pusey so she would not handover to Ottey, with Hodges remaining as starter. In the Olympic final, the team remained in contention until the final changeover, at which point Ottey again began too quickly, leading to a poor baton changeover. The team still ran a Jamaican national record of 43.19 seconds in sixth place, but Pusey felt her best chance of winning an Olympic medal was lost due to Ottey's mistake. Shortly after the Olympics, Pusey ran a personal best for the 200 m in London, recording a time of 22.82 seconds.