Jillian Richardson

{{Short description|Canadian sprinter (born 1965)}}

{{use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalSilver| 1984 Los Angeles | 4 x 400 metres}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|1989 Budapest | 400 metres}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1982 Brisbane | 4 x 400 metres}}

{{MedalGold| 1986 Edinburgh | 4 x 400 metres}}

{{MedalSilver| 1986 Edinburgh | 400 metres}}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalSilver| 1987 Indianapolis | 400 metres}}

{{MedalSilver| 1987 Indianapolis | 4 x 400 metres}}

{{MedalSilver| 1983 Caracas | 4 x 400 metres}}

{{MedalBronze| 1983 Caracas | 4 x 100 metres}}

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Jillian Cheryl Richardson-Briscoe (born March 10, 1965, in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She is a three-time Olympian.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/jill-richardson-briscoe-1.html |title=Jill Richardson-Briscoe (full name: Jillian Cheryl Richardson-Briscoe) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091204013016/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/jill-richardson-briscoe-1.html |archive-date=2009-12-04 |url-status=dead}} In 1988, she equalled Marita Payne's Canadian 400 metres record of 49.91 secs. The record (as of 2022) still stands. She was inducted into the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame in 2017.{{cite web |url=http://athletics.ca/gilbert-richardson-briscoe-wright-inducted-athletics-canada-hall-fame/ |title=Gilbert, Richardson-Briscoe and Wright to be inducted into Athletics Canada Hall of Fame |publisher=Athletics Canada |date=5 May 2017 |quote=Jillian Richardson-Briscoe}}

Richardson won a gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games as a member of the 4 x 400 meter relay team. She repeated that feat at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, as well as winning a silver in the 400 meters. She was a member of the 4 x 400 metre relay that took a silver medal in the 1983 Pan American Games. She won a silver in the 400 meters at the 1987 Pan American Games, and as part of the Canadian 4 x 400 meter relay team. She took a gold medal in the 400 metres and a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay at the 1989 Francophone Games.

She competed for Canada at three Olympic Games. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with her teammates Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck and Marita Payne. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, she was eliminated in the 400 metres semi-finals, running 49.91. It was the first time someone had broken 50 seconds and failed to reach the final. Canada failed to finish the 4 × 400 m relay final due to an injury to Molly Killingbeck. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, she finished fifth in the 400 m final, in 49.93 and fourth in the 4 × 400 m relay final.