Bobby-Gaye Wilkins

Bobby-Gaye Wilkins Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for  Jamaica Olympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing 4x400 m relay CAC Junior Championships (U20) Gold 2006 Port of Spain 4x400 m relay Silver 2006 Port of Spain 400 m CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) Gold 2006 Les Abymes 800 m Gold 2006 Les Abymes 4x400 m relay Gold 2007 Providenciales 400 m Gold 2007 Providenciales 4x400 m relay Silver 2005 Bacolet, Tobago 800 m CARIFTA Games Youth (U17) Gold 2004 Hamilton 4x400 m relay

Updated on 26 January 2015.

Bobby-Gaye Wilkins (born 10 September 1988) is a Jamaican athlete who represented Jamaica at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, winning a bronze medal in the 4×400 metres relay.

Her first major international appearance came at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she reached the final of the 400 metres.

She was selected as a reserve for the relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but she did not compete.^[1] She reached the semi-finals of the 400 m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but enjoyed greater success in the women's relay: along with Clora Williams, Davita Prendergast and Novlene Williams-Mills, she won the bronze medal in a Jamaican indoor record of 3:28.49 (also a Central American and Caribbean record).^[2]

However, she failed her drug test at the competition, and the Jamaican team was disqualified. Her sample contained andarine (a selective androgen receptor modulator), making her the second international runner to test positive for the class of anabolic drugs, after Thomas Goller. She received a two-year ban from competitive athletics for the infraction.^[3]

Personal bests

Event	Result	Venue	Date
400 m	50.87 s	Kingston	28 Jun 2008
800 m	2:04.87 min	Kingston	22 Mar 2008

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Jamaica
2004	CARIFTA Games (U-17)	Hamilton, Bermuda	4th	400 m	56.96
			1st	4x400 m relay	3:48.32
2005	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Bacolet, Trinidad and Tobago	2nd	800 m	2:12.98
			1st	4×400m relay	3:36.91
	World Youth Championships	Marrakesh, Morocco	7th	400 m	54.72
	Pan American Junior Championships	Windsor, Ontario, Canada	2nd	4x400m relay	3:36.99
2006	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Les Abymes, Guadeloupe	1st	800 m	2:09.36
			1st	4x400 m relay	3:31.90 CR
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	2nd	400 m	53.19
			1st	4x400 m relay	3:36.02
2007	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands	1st	400 m	53.01
			1st	4x400 m relay	3:36.26
	Pan American Junior Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	1st	400m	51.72
2008	NACAC U-23 Championships	Toluca, México	1st	400m	51.34 A
			1st	4x400m relay	3:27.46 A
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	3rd1	4x400 m relay	3:22.601
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	—	400m	DQ (Doping)
			—	4×400m relay	DQ (Doping)
2013	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Morelia, México	5th	400m	53.01 A
			—	4×400m relay	DQ
2014	Pan American Sports Festival	Ciudad de México, México	3rd	400m	51.84 A

¹: Competed only in the heat.

See also

• List of doping cases in athletics

References

External links

• Bobby-Gaye Wilkins profile at IAAF
• Athlete bio at 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 September 2008)
• Sports reference biography