Semoy Kee-Ann Hackett (born 27 November 1988) is a

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nian

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sprint athlete who competed collegiately at

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. Her personal best in the 100 m is 11.09, and 22.49 in 200 m. Hackett represented

Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics Trinidad and Tobago sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Its participation in the Beijing games marked its eighteenth Olympic appearance and fifteenth Summer Olympic appearance since its debut at the 1948 Sum ...

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. She competed at the

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sprint and placed fourth in her first round heat, which normally meant elimination. However, her time of 11.53 seconds was among the ten fastest losing times and she qualified for the second round. There she failed to qualify for the semi-finals as her time of 11.46 was the sixth time of her race. Together with Wanda Hutson,

Ayanna Hutchinson Ayanna Hutchinson (born 18 February 1978) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago. 1978 births Living people Trinidad and Tobago female sprinters Olympic athletes for Trinidad and Tobago ...

and

Kelly-Ann Baptiste Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste (born 14 October 1986) is a Tobagonian track and field sprint athlete. Junior Competing at the international level for the first time, Kelly-Ann bowed out in the semi-finals of the World Junior Championships in Athl ...

she also took part in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

. In their first round heat they did not finish and were eliminated due to a mistake with the baton exchange. Hackett ran a relay at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in the ...

, but was retrospectively disqualified and banned for six months because of a failed drugs test for

methylhexaneamine Methylhexanamine (also known as methylhexamine, 1,3-dimethylamylamine, 1,3-DMAA, dimethylamylamine, and DMAA; trade names Forthane and Geranamine) is an indirect sympathomimetic drug invented and developed by Eli Lilly and Company and marketed ...

at the National Championships. In November 2012, Louisiana State University reported that Hackett had again tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the 2012

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Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in June. LSU was forced to vacate their national championship due to the failed drug test. Hackett was given a doping ban of two-year and four months. The ban ended 30 April 2015.

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* * * 1988 births Living people Doping cases in athletics Trinidad and Tobago sportspeople in doping cases Trinidad and Tobago female sprinters 21st-century Trinidad and Tobago sportswomen Olympic athletes for Trinidad and Tobago Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes World Athletics Championships athletes for Trinidad and Tobago World Athletics Championships medalists Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Trinidad and Tobago Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games athletes for Trinidad and Tobago Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Commonwealth Games athletes for Trinidad and Tobago Olympic female sprinters NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners {{Trinidad-athletics-bio-stub