Trecia Smith

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Medal record
Women's athletics
World Championships
Gold	2005 Helsinki	Triple jump

Trecia-Kaye Smith (born November 5, 1975) is a Jamaican athlete competing mainly in triple jump. In college, she competed for the University of Pittsburgh from 1996-1999 and was a seven-time NCAA national champion (two outdoor and three indoor long jump titles and one outdoor and one indoor triple jump title), 15-time All-American, a 14-time Big East Conference champion, and a 15-time Eastern College Athletic Conference champion. Trecia was named to the NCAA Division 1 Silver Anniversary Indoor Team and a "NCAA Division 1 Most Outstanding Student-Athlete".[1][2]

Her personal best is 15.16 metres, and she almost equalled that result at the 2005 World Championships where she, in the absence of Golden League winner Tatyana Lebedeva, won the gold medal with 15.11 metres.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Extra
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	8th
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, England	3rd	14.32 PB
	World Cup	Madrid, Spain	4th
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	4th
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	7th
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	15.11 SB
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	4th
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	4th
	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	1st
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	4th

[edit] References

• IAAF profile for Trecia Smith

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tatyana Lebedeva	Women's Triple Jump Best Year Performance alongside Tatyana Lebedeva 2005	Succeeded by Anna Pyatykh