Briana Williams

2019 At the 2019 CARIFTA Games in April, Williams again tripled in the 100 m, 200 m, and relay to win three gold medals in the under-20 category.

On 1 June, Williams set a new Jamaican under-18 and under-20 record in the women's 100 metres at the JAC Open in Jacksonville, Florida, improving on Kiara Grant's under-20 record set the month prior by one hundredth of a second to 11.10 seconds. Grant took the record back a week later at the NCAA Division I Championships in Austin, Texas with a 11.04 seconds finish in the final, but less than an hour later Williams improved the record to 11.02 seconds at the Great Southwest Classic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Williams ran 10.94 s in the 100 m final at the Jamaican Championships on 21 June 2019, which would have set the world under-18 best time and improved her Jamaican under-20 record. However, she tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide during the competition. While she was ruled to be not at fault and received no period of ineligibility to compete, her results from the Jamaican Championships were deleted from the records. A day later in the American Track League at the same track she ran 10.97 in the prelims, but the time was assisted by a +2.5 m/s wind, making it ineligible for record purposes which allow no more than a +2.0 m/s wind velocity. In the final she clocked 10.98 seconds to win with only a +1.0 m/s wind, setting her second Jamaican under-20 record in two days. In June 2021, Williams placed fourth at the Jamaican National Championships with a time of 11.01 in the 100 metres, thus not qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in that event.

Statistics Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Personal bests

International competitions + Representing Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Wind (m/s) Notes 2017 CARIFTA Games (U18) Willemstad, Curaçao 3rd 100 m 11.80 −1.6 2018 CARIFTA Games (U17) Nassau, Bahamas 1st 100 m 11.27 +1.6 World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland 1st 100 m 11.16 0.0 1st 200 m 22.50 −0.1 2021 Jamaican Championships Kingston, Jamaica 4th 100 m 11.01 -

Seasonal bests w = wind-assisted (over +2.0 m/s) Year 100 metres 200 metres 2014 13.25 — 2015 12.09 24.79 2016 12.58 26.16 2017 11.30 23.56 2018 11.13 22.50 2019 11.02 22.88 2020 12.43 24.70 2021 10.97 22.93 2022 11.03 22.81202311.0123.38