Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bobby-Gaye Wilkins

athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1988

Place of Birth: Manchester Parish, Jamaica

Profession: sprinter

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Bobby-Gaye Wilkins

  • 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.
  • 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).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.

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