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{{short description|Athletics competitor}}
{{Use Jamaican English|date=March 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name             = Tayna Lawrence
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| fullname         = 
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|17 September 1975}}
| birth_place      = [[Spanish Town, Jamaica]]
| headercolor      = lightsteelblue
| show-medals      = yes
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalSport | Women's [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|athletics]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{JAM}} }}
{{MedalOlympics}}
{{MedalGold | [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|4 × 100 m relay]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[100 metres]] }}
}}

'''Tayna Lawrence''' (born 17 September 1975 in [[Spanish Town, Jamaica]]) is a retired [[Track and field]] [[Sprint (running)|sprint]] athlete who competed internationally for [[Jamaica]]. She is an Olympic [[gold medal]]ist in the [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 meter relay]] race.

Lawrence graduated from [[Florida International University]], in [[Miami]], Florida, US. She sustained a leg injury and had to undergo surgery in 2003, missing the [[2003 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships in Paris]]. She was severely hampered by a series of stress fractures in 2001, which ruled her out of the World Championships.

==Personal bests==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! Date
! Event
! Venue
! Time
|-
| 30 August 2002
| 100 m
| [[Brussels]], Belgium
| 10.93
|-
| 1 May 2000
| 200 m
| [[Pointe-á-Pitre]], [[France]]
| 22.84
|}

<!---==Achievements==
{| border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|- bgcolor="cccccc"
! Year
! Tournament
! Venue
! Result
! Event
|-
| 2000
| [[2000 Summer Olympics]]
| [[Sydney]], Australia
| bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd*
| 100 m
|-
| 2000
| [[2000 Summer Olympics]]
| [[Sydney]], Australia
| bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd
| 4 × 100 m
|-
| 2002
| IAAF World Cup
| [[Madrid]], Spain
| bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd
| 100 m
|-
| 2002
| IAAF Grand Prix
| [[Paris]], France
| bgcolor="cc9966" align="center" | 3rd
| 100 m
|-
| 2004
| [[2004 Summer Olympics]]
| [[Athens]], Greece
| bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st
| 4 × 100 m
|}--->

<nowiki>*</nowiki> [[Marion Jones]], the American athlete who finished in first place, was stripped of her gold medal in October 2007 following a doping scandal. [[Ekaterini Thanou]], the [[Greece|Greek]] athlete who finished second place, was later suspended for two years following various scandals at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].

==Videos==
* [http://www.flocasts.com/flotrack/search.php?q=tayna+lawrence Flotrack Videos of Tayna Lawrence]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{World Athletics||name=Tayna Lawrence}}
* {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/tayna-lawrence-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173340/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/tayna-lawrence-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions 4x100 m Women}}
{{Footer IAAF World Cup Champions 100m Women}}
{{Footer IAAF World Cup Champions 4x100 m Women}}
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[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Spanish Town]]
[[Category:Athletes from Saint Catherine Parish]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Jamaican women sprinters]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Jamaica]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Jamaica]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Jamaica]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:Olympic women sprinters]]
[[Category:20th-century Jamaican women]]
[[Category:21st-century Jamaican sportswomen]]
[[Category:FIU Panthers women's track and field athletes]]


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