Aleen Bailey

Aleen May Bailey (born 25 November 1980) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 m.<ref name="beijing">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal as a member of the 4 × 100 m relay team. Bailey trains in Columbia, South Carolina under Curtis Frye and is the sister of the reggae star Capleton.

Bailey graduated from the University of South Carolina, where she competed during her Junior and Senior season after transferring from Barton County Community College.

In the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Bailey won the 100 and 200 meters, both times defeating heavily favored Muna Lee of LSU. She was also a member of the 4 × 100 m championship team at the 2002 outdoor championships.

Bailey competed for her native Jamaica at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she placed 5th in the 100 meters and 4th at the 200 meters. She teamed with 200 m champion Veronica Campbell, Tayna Lawrence, and Sherone Simpson to win the 4 × 100 m relay.

At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won (together with Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson and Veronica Campbell-Brown) a silver medal. At the 2007 Pan American Games she finished fifth in the 200 m and won a gold medal in relay.

Bailey represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sheri-Ann Brooks and Veronica Campbell-Brown. In its first round heat, Jamaica placed first in front of Russia, Germany and China. The Jamaica relay's time of 42.24 seconds was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result, Jamaica qualified for the final, replacing Brooks and Bailey with Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart. Jamaica did not finish the race due to a mistake in the baton exchange.<ref name="beijing"/>

Personal bests

Her personal bests are:
100 m: 11.04
200 m: 22.33

Achievements

Representing Template:JAM
1995	CARIFTA Games (U-17)	George Town, Cayman Islands	3rd	100 m	12.10   (0.2 m/s)
			4th	200 m	24.46   (0.2 m/s)
1996	CARIFTA Games (U-17)	Kingston, Jamaica	1st	100 m	11.85
			1st	200 m	24.88   (-5.1 m/s)
	CARIFTA Games (U-20)		1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.24
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	100 m	11.75   (0.7 m/s)
			1st	200 m	24.50
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	46.31
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)		1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:41.99
	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	10th (sf)	200 m	24.33
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.26
1997	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	100 m	11.60   (0.0 m/s)
			1st	200 m	23.65   (0.9 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	45.27
1998	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m	11.37
			1st	200 m	23.16   (2.4 m/s) w
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.97
	World Junior Championships	Annecy, France	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.61
1999	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Fort-de-France, Martinique	1st	100 m	11.60   (-0.8 m/s)
			1st	200 m	23.39   (1.6 m/s)
	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Canada	1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.62
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.15 SB
2000	NACAC U-25 Championships	Monterrey, Mexico	2nd	100 m	11.66 (wind: -1.6 m/s)
			1st	200 m	23.47 (wind: -3.1 m/s)
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	7th (h)	200 m	23.70   (0.2 m/s)
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	6th	100 m	11.07   (0.9 m/s)
			2nd (h)	200 m	22.98   (-0.4 m/s)
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	5th	100 m	11.05   (-0.1 m/s)
			4th	200 m	22.42   (0.8 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	41.73 NR
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th (sf)	100 m	11.23   (0.4 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	41.99 SB
2007	Pan American Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	5th	200 m	23.09   (-0.6 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	43.58
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	6th	200 m	22.72   (1.7 m/s)
2008	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Cali, Colombia	4th	100 m	11.43   (1.2 m/s)
			6th	200 m	23.34   (0.3 m/s)
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	1st (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.24 SB
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	8th	100 m	11.16   (0.1 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.06
2013	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Morelia, Mexico	3rd	100 m	11.34   (+0.1 m/s)
			2nd	200 m	23.08   (-0.6 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	43.58

External links

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• Aleen Bailey at uscsports.collegesports.com