Tina Clayton (born 17 August 2004) is a
Jamaica
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sprinter. She won gold medals for both the
100 metres
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4 × 100 m relay
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at both the
2021
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2022 World Under-20 Championships. Clayton set a championship record in her individual event in 2022, while Jamaican women's relay team broke the world u20 record on both occasions with times of 42.94 s and 42.59 s respectively..
Tina has a twin sister,
Tia Clayton, who ran the anchor leg of those world records relays.
Biography
Tina Clayton attended Edwin Allen High School in
Clarendon, Jamaica.
She won the girls 100 m and 4 × 100 m gold medals at the
2021 NACAC U18 Championships.
Clayton took the U20 100 m title at the
2022 CARIFTA Games in 11.22 seconds ahead of her twin sister,
Tia Clayton, who earned the silver medal in 11.30.
Jamaican women's 4 × 100 m relay team set there a world U20 record time which was not ratified because one of the four members of the quartet of
Serena Cole, Tina Clayton,
Brianna Lyston and Tia Clayton was not drug tested.
National Championships Results
International competitions
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2004 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Westmoreland Parish
Jamaican female sprinters
Jamaican twins
World Athletics U20 Championships winners
21st-century Jamaican sportswomen
Female twins
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