Salcia Slack

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Salcia Slack

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| sport = Track and field

| event = Heptathlon

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|12|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = St. James, Jamaica{{cite web | url=https://annakayearobinson.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/salcia-slack/ | title=Salcia Slack | date=26 August 2014 }}

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| height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| education = New Mexico Highlands University[http://www.gwangju2015.kr/IRS/eng/zb/engzb_athletics_biography_overview_n6308406_slack_salcia_venecia.htm 2015 WSG profile]

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Salcia Venecia Slack (born 10 December 1989) is a Jamaican athlete who specialises in the heptathlon.{{World Athletics}} She represented her country at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without finishing the competition. Her biggest success to date is the fifth place at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Her personal bests in the combined events are 6141 points in the heptathlon (Tucson 2015) and 4181 points in the pentathlon (Birmingham, AL 2015).

She has a son, Bendray.[http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/cycling_road/1074327/salcia_slack.html 2014 CWG profile]

Competition record

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colspan="6"|Representing {{JAM}}
2008

|World Junior Championships

|Bydgoszcz, Poland

|20th

|Heptathlon

|4851 pts

2014

|Commonwealth Games

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|5th

|Heptathlon

|5718 pts

rowspan=2|2015

|Universiade

|Gwangju, South Korea

| –

|Heptathlon

|DNF

World Championships

|Beijing, China

| –

|Heptathlon

|DNF

2016

|World Indoor Championships

|Portland, United States

|12th

|Pentathlon

|3377 pts

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

References

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