Angela Bailey

Angela Bailey
Medal record
Women’s athletics
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
1984 Los Angeles 4x100m Relay
World Indoor Championships
1987 Indianapolis 60m
Commonwealth Games
1978 Edmonton 4x100 metres
1982 Brisbane 4x100 metres
1986 Edinburgh 4x100 metres
Pacific Conference Games
1981 Christchurch 100 metres
1981 Christchurch 200 metres
1981 Christchurch 4x100 metres
Pan American Junior Championships
1980 Sudbury 100 metres
1980 Sudbury 200 metres

Angela Bailey (born 28 February 1962 in Coventry, England) is a former Canadian track and field athlete. She is the Canadian record holder in the 100 metres with her personal best of 10.98 seconds, set in 1987. She also holds the 200 metres indoor national record of 23.32 seconds.

Angela Bailey first came to international attention at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in 1978. In 1980 she won Gold in both 100 meters and 200 meters at the first Pan Am Juniors Track and Field Championships in Sudbury. Beating the favoured American sprinter Michele Glover decisively in both distances. She won all her races on tour of New Zealand in late 1981; which included three gold medals at the Pacific Conference Games in 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay. She placed fourth in the 100 meters and seventh in the 200 meters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, and was again fourth in the 100 meters in 1986.

Bailey won a silver medal for the 4×100 m relay at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, and did so again in both the 1982 and 1986 games. At the 1983 World Championships she placed 5th in the 100 m and seventh in the 200 metres 5th in the 4×100 m relay. At the same event in 1987 she placed seventh in the 100 m.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Bailey came in sixth in the 100 m and the silver medal with the Canadian team, made up of Marita Payne, Angella Taylor-Issajenko and France Gareau. She was selected for the 1980 Olympic team, but Canada boycotted the event.

National titles

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Canada
1978 Commonwealth Games Edmonton, Canada semi-final 100 m 11.63
heats 200 m 23.91
2nd 4x100 m 44.26
1980 Pan American Junior Championships Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 1st 100 m 11.55
1st 200 m 23.44w
1981 Pacific Conference Games Christchurch, New Zealand 1st 100 m 11.46
1st 200m 23.37
1st 4x100m 44.50
World Cup Rome, Italy 4th 4x100 m 43,06
1982 Commonwealth Games Brisbane, Australia 4th 100 m 11.30
8th 200 m 23.42
2nd 4x100 m 43.66
1983 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 5th 100 m 11.20
7th 200 m 22.93
5th 4x100 m 43.05
1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 6th 100 m 11.40
semi-final 200 m 22.75
2nd 4x100 m 42.77
1986 Commonwealth Games Edinburgh, Scotland 4th 100 m 11.35w
2nd 4x100 m 43.83
1987 World Indoor Championships Indianapolis, United States 3rd 60 m 7.12
World Championships Rome, Italy 7th 100 m 11.18
semi-final 200 m 22.97
6th 4x100 m 43.26
1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea quarter-final 100 m 11.29
semi-final 4x100 m 43.82
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 6th 4x100 m 43.39

Note: At the 1987 World Indoor Championships, Bailey originally finished fourth. She was promoted to the bronze medal position in 1989 after her Canadian team mate Angella Issajenko, who had won the silver medal, was disqualified after admitting long term drug use at the Dubin Inquiry.
Note: At the 1981 World Cup, Bailey was representing the Americas continent.

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