Vanessa Clerveaux

Vanessa Clerveaux (born 17 June 1994) is an American-born Haitian athlete specialising in the high hurdles. She won a silver medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games. Clerveaux also placed seventh and sixth at the 2018 NACAC Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games. She had been selected to represent Haiti at the 2020 Summer Olympics, however she had to drop out due to an injury.

Early life and education Vanessa Clerveaux was born on 17 June 1994 in Brockton, Massachusetts to Lauve Lorcy and Frantz Clerveaux, both of whom were born in Haiti. She has one brother. She attended the Davis School and Brockton High School. While attending the latter, she became interested in competing in the hurdles, Clerveaux graduated from the school in 2012, before majoring in Dentistry at Eastern Michigan University, while competing with the Eastern Michigan Eagles track and field team. After her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Alabama, where she specialised in the hurdles and sprinting. She graduated from the university in 2017. The same year, she competed at the NACAC Championships and placed seventh with a time of 13.17 seconds in the same event. In the subsequent year, she placed sixth at the Pan American Games in Peru and 27th at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

She competed in the 60 meter hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, where she reached the semi-finals. Clerveaux again raced the 60 meter hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where she had a time of 8.29 seconds.

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