Sherone Simpson

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| name = Sherone Simpson

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| caption = Simpson in 2008

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1984|8|12}}

| birth_place = Manchester Parish, Jamaica

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| weight = {{convert|59|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=off}}

| sport = Running

| event = 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres

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Sherone Simpson (born 12 August 1984) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprint athlete.{{cite web |url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/8002947.shtml |title=Athlete Biography: SIMPSON Sherone |website=Beijing2008.cn |publisher=The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080826054604/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/8002947.shtml |archive-date=26 August 2008 |access-date=27 August 2008}} She is a gold medalist in the 4 × 100 m relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, after she tied for second with Kerron Stewart in a photo finish.

On 14 July 2013, Simpson announced that she had tested positive for the drug oxilofrine. In April 2014, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission announced that she would be suspended for 18 months over doping charges, expiring in December that year. However, after appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the suspension was lifted on 14 July 2014.

Biography

With her personal best of 10.82 seconds in the 100 m, Simpson is ranked 7th among Jamaican women, behind Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.54), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.60), Shericka Jackson (10.65), Merlene Ottey (10.74), Kerron Stewart (10.75), and Veronica Campbell Brown (10.76). Simpson's 200 m personal best of 22.00 seconds ranks her 9th among Jamaican women behind Elaine Thompson-Herah, Merlene Ottey, Grace Jackson, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Juliet Cuthbert, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Kerron Stewart. She has run this time on two occasions. Simpson is coached by Stephen Francis in Kingston, Jamaica, where she attends the University of Technology. She is also a graduate of Manchester High.

Simpson won the gold medal in the women's 200 m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, beating Olympic champion Veronica Campbell and completing a Jamaican sweep of 100–200 m gold medals. Jamaica also won both sprint hurdles gold medals.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she competed at the 100 m sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Yevgeniya Polyakova and Jade Bailey in a time of 11.48 to advance to the second round. There she improved her time to 11.02 seconds to win her heat in front of Muna Lee and Chandra Sturrup. With 11.11 seconds in her semi final race she placed fourth and earned her spot in the Olympic final. In a remarkable race with fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser taking the gold, Simpson and Kerron Stewart both finished in 10.98 seconds to share the silver medal and to complete the Jamaican sweep. Together with Fraser, Stewart, Sheri-Ann Brooks, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown she also took part in the 4 × 100 m relay. In their first round heat (without Simpson and Stewart) they placed first in front of Russia, Germany and China. Their time of 42.24 seconds was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final, in which they replaced Brooks and Bailey with Simpson and Stewart. Eventually they did not finish their race, due to a mistake in the baton exchange.

=Anti-doping rule violation=

On 14 July 2013, Simpson informed that a urine sample she supplied after competing in the Jamaican national championships in June 2013 had tested positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine, along with Asafa Powell.{{Cite web |url=http://www.supersport.com/athletics/international/news/130714/Five_Jamaicans_test_positive_for_banned_drugs |title=Jamaicans Powell, Simpson test positive |date=14 July 2012 |access-date=14 July 2013 |website=SuperSport}} On 10 April 2014, both athletes received an 18-month suspension from competing, which was set to expire in December that year.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/26974788 |title=Asafa Powell banned for 18 months for doping |date=10 April 2014 |website=BBC Sport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509060737/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/26974788 |archive-date=9 May 2014}} However, after appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), both athletes' suspensions were reduced to six months expiring in December 2014. CAS stated that: "They put forward that the offence committed was minor because it was caused by contamination of the food supplement Epiphany D1 by the banned substance oxilofrine.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/14/jamaican-sprinters-asafa-powell-sherone-simpson-doping-bans-cut |title=Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson have doping bans cut |website=TheGuardian.com |date=14 July 2014}}

Personal bests

Event ! Time ! Wind ! Place ! Date
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100 m	10.82	−0.7	Kingston, Jamaica	24 June 2006
rowspan="2"\|200 m	rowspan="2"\|22.00	−0.3	Stockholm, Sweden	25 July 2006
+1.3	Kingston, Jamaica	25 June 2006
400 m	51.25		Kingston, Jamaica	22 March 2008