Shellene Williams

Shellene Williams (born 19 February 1981) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica. She specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres. Her personal best time in the women's 200 metres was 23.50 seconds, achieved in May 2004, and her 400 m best was 51.94 seconds, set in June 2004. Williams won a bronze medal in the women's 4×100 metres relay at the 2003 Pan American Games, alongside Lacena Golding-Clarke, Judyth Kitson, and Danielle Browning.

Williams attended Barton Community College in Kansas, United States, and won an NJCAA title in the relay while there. She transferred to the University of Iowa in 2003 and won the Big Ten Conference 400 m title before reaching the semi-finals at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The following year she took the indoor and outdoor Big Ten titles and placed sixth at the NCAA Outdoors, earning All-American honours for the Iowa Hawkeyes. She completed her degree in communication studies and later returned to her alma mater as an assistant sprints coach. and was the heats runner of the winning relay team at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics. An individual 400 m bronze medal came at the 2000 CARIFTA Games, and at the 2000 CAC Juniors she was fourth in the 400 m and retained the relay title. In her last junior appearance, she helped Jamaica's relay team through the heats at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where they eventually took silver behind Great Britain in the final. At the 2002 NACAC Under-25 Championships in Athletics she was the 200 m gold medallist, 4 × 400 m relay gold medallist, and the 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist.

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