Briana Williams

Personal information
Full name	Briana Nichole Williams
Nationality	American Jamaican[1]
Born	(2002-03-21)21 March 2002 (age 23) Miami, Florida, U.S.[2][1]
Sport
Country	Jamaica
Sport	Track and field
Event	Sprints
Club	Born 2 Do It[3]
Turned pro	2020[4]
Coached by	Ato Boldon[1][5]
Achievements and titles
Personalbests	100 m: 10.94 (2022) 200 m: 22.50 (2018)
Medal record Women'sathletics Representing Jamaica Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay World Championships 2022 Eugene 4×100 m relay 2023 Budapest 4×100 m relay World U20 Championships 2018 Tampere 100 m 2018 Tampere 200 m NACAC Championships 2022 Freeport 4×100 m relay Pan American U20 Championships 2019 San José 100 m 2019 San José 4×100 m relay NACAC Championships (U18) 2019 Queretaro 100 m

Briana Nichole Williams (born March 21, 2002) is an American-born sprinter competing for Jamaica in the100 metres and200 metres. She became the youngest athlete to win the women's 100 metres and 200 metres double at the2018 World Under-20 Championships inTampere at age 16.

She holds the girls' 100 metres age-15 world record with a time of 11.13 seconds, set in March 2018. She is the Jamaican under-18 and under-20 record holder in the women's 200 metres, and was Jamaica"s under-18 and under-20 record holder in the women's 100 metres with personal bests of 22.50 seconds and 10.97 seconds respectively.^[6][7][8][9]

On March 17 at theBob Hayes Invitational inJacksonville, Florida, Williams broke the world age-15 record in the girls' 100 metres, winning in a time of 11.13 seconds. The previous record had been 11.17 seconds, set almost 27 years prior byMarion Jones on 1 June 1991.^[6][7]

Two weeks later she earned gold medals in the 100 metres, the 200 metres, and the4 × 100 metres relay at the2018 CARIFTA Games in the under-17 category, setting championship records in the 100 metres and4 × 100 metres relay.^[10][11][12]

In July she became the youngest athlete ever to win both the women's 100 metres and the 200 metres at the2018 IAAF World U20 Championships inTampere.^[13][5][14]

At the2019 CARIFTA Games in April, Williams again tripled in the 100 m, 200 m, and4 × 100 m relay to win three gold medals in the under-20 category.^[15][16]

On 1 June, Williams set a new Jamaican under-18 and under-20 record in the women's 100 metres at the JAC Open inJacksonville, Florida, improving onKiara Grant's under-20 record set the month prior by one hundredth of a second to 11.10 seconds.^[8] Grant took the record back a week later at theNCAA Division I Championships inAustin, Texas with a 11.04 seconds finish in the final, but less than an hour later Williams improved the record to 11.02 seconds at the Great Southwest Classic inAlbuquerque, New Mexico.^[9]

Williams ran 10.94 s in the 100 m final at the Jamaican Championships on 21 June 2019, which would have set theworld under-18 best time and improved her Jamaican under-20 record.^{[17][18][19][20]} However, she tested positive for the banned diuretichydrochlorothiazide during the competition. While she was ruled to be not at fault and received no period of ineligibility to compete, her results from the Jamaican Championships were deleted from the records.^[21][22][23]

Williams improved her official Jamaican under-20 record of 11.02 seconds in the women's 100 metres at the JAC Summer Open inJacksonville, Florida on 30 May, clocking 11.19 seconds in the prelims and then winning the final in 11.01 seconds.^[24] A day later in the American Track League at the same track she ran 10.97 in the prelims, but the time wasassisted by a +2.5 m/s wind, making it ineligible for record purposes which allow no more than a +2.0 m/s wind velocity. In the final she clocked 10.98 seconds to win with only a +1.0 m/s wind, setting her second Jamaican under-20 record in two days.^[25] In June 2021, Williams placed fourth at the Jamaican National Championships with a time of 11.01 in the 100 metres, thus not qualifying for the2020 Summer Olympics in that event.^[23] However, she competed at the Olympics as a part of the 4 x 100 metres relay team, winning thegold medal.

Williams earned theAustin Sealy award at theCARIFTA Games in2018 and then2019 for her records set and gold medals earned in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay in both editions. She was the first Jamaican athlete to win the award two years in a row sinceUsain Bolt in 2004.^{[10][11][12][15][16]}

For her athletics achievements in 2018 she was nominated for theIAAF Female Rising Star and theLaureus Breakthrough of the Year awards.^[26][27][28]

• Information fromWorld Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.^[23]

Representing Jamaica

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Wind (m/s)	Notes
2017	CARIFTA Games (U18)	Willemstad, Curaçao	3rd	100 m	11.80	−1.6
2018	CARIFTA Games (U17)	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	100 m	11.27	+1.6	CR[30][11]
			1st	200 m	23.11	+1.1	PB
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.95	—	PBCR[10][11]
	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	1st	100 m	11.16	0.0
			1st	200 m	22.50	−0.1	NU18RNU20RCR[13][5][14]
2019	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Georgetown, Cayman Islands	1st	100 m	11.25	+0.3	SB
			1st	200 m	22.89	+0.9	SB
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.25	—	PB
	NACAC U18 Championships	Querétaro, Mexico	1st	100 m	11.11	+1.5	CR
	Pan American U20 Championships	San José, Costa Rica	1st	100 m	11.38	−1.4
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.36	—
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	1st	4 × 100 m relay	41.02	—	NR
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	60 m	7.04	—
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	14th (sf)	60 m	7.19	—

• w =wind-assisted (over +2.0 m/s)

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• Briana Williams atWorld Athletics
• Briana Williams atOlympedia

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• American sportspeople of Jamaican descent
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• World Athletics U20 Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Olympic gold medalists for Jamaica
• Olympic athletes for Jamaica
• 21st-century American sportswomen
• 21st-century African-American sportswomen
• World Athletics Championships medalists

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