(1960-05-10) 10 May 1960 (age 64) Cold Spring, Hanover, Jamaica
Height
175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight
62 kg (137 lb)
Spouse
Nat Page (1984–1987; divorced)
Sport
Country
Jamaica (1978–2002)
Slovenia (2002–2012)
Sport
Athletics
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games (9 medals)
0
3
6
World Championships (14 medals)
3
4
7
World Indoor Championships (7 medals)
3
2
2
Total (30 medals)
6
9
15
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta
100 m
1996 Atlanta
200 m
2000 Sydney
4x100 m relay
1980 Moscow
200 m
1984 Los Angeles
100 m
1984 Los Angeles
200 m
1992 Barcelona
200 m
1996 Atlanta
4x100 m relay
2000 Sydney
100 m
World Championships
1991 Tokyo
4x100 m relay
1993 Stuttgart
200 m
1995 Gothenburg
200 m
1983 Helsinki
200 m
1993 Stuttgart
100 m
1995 Gothenburg
100 m
1995 Gothenburg
4x100 m relay
1983 Helsinki
4x100 m relay
1987 Rome
100 m
1987 Rome
200 m
1991 Tokyo
100 m
1991 Tokyo
200 m
1993 Stuttgart
4x100 m relay
1997 Athens
200 m
World Indoor Championships
1989 Budapest
200 m
1991 Seville
200 m
1995 Barcelona
60 m
1987 Indianapolis
200 m
1991 Seville
60 m
1989 Budapest
60 m
2003 Birmingham
60 m
Commonwealth Games
1982 Brisbane
200 m
1990 Auckland
200 m
1990 Auckland
100 m
1982 Brisbane
100 m
1982 Brisbane
4x100 m relay
Pan American Games
1979 San Juan
4x100 m relay
1979 San Juan
200 m
Merlene Joyce OtteyON OJ OD[2] (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She is ranked fourth on the all-time list over 60 metres (indoor), eighth on the all-time list over 100 metres and sixth on the all-time list over 200 metres. She is the current world indoor record holder for 200 metres with 21.87 seconds, set in 1993. She was named Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year 13 times between 1979 and 1995.
Ottey had the longest career as a top-level international sprinter appearing at the 1979 Pan American Games as a 19-year-old fresh from U-20 and Junior competitions, and concluding her career at age 52 when she anchored the Slovene 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2012 European Championships.[3][4]
A nine-time Olympic medalist, she holds the record for the most Olympic appearances (seven) of any track and field athlete. Although gold medal success at the Olympics eluded Ottey, she was able to bring home three silvers and six bronze medals. She won 14 World Championship medals,[5] and still holds the record (as of 2017) for most medals in individual events with 10.[6] Her career achievements and longevity led to her being called the "Queen of the Track". Her proclivity for earning bronze medals in major championships earned her the title of "Bronze Queen" in track circles.[7]
Ottey was formerly married to the American high jumper and 400 m hurdler Nat Page and was known as Merlene Ottey-Page during the mid-1980s.[8]
^"Merlene Ottey-Page". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^"Merlene Ottey to receive Jamaica's fourth-highest national honour". Jamaica Loop News. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
^"Merlene Ottey becomes oldest athlete in Euro championships". masterstrack.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
^Chandler, Helen (31 July 2010). "Merlene Ottey hopes age will be no barrier in the long run". The Guardian. London.
^Statistics book, Berlin 2009 Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 13 August 2009.
^"Individual placings". IAAF. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
^Washington Post 20 August 2004
^"Merlene OTTEY | Profile". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
Merlene Joyce Ottey ON OJ OD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in...
clergyman, educationalist and cricketer MerleneOttey (born 1960), Jamaican-Slovenian sprinter Milton Ottey (born 1959), Jamaican-Canadian high jumper...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2008–12), and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2016-2020). MerleneOttey is the only athlete to win three medals without winning gold, with one...
metres not awarded Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18 MerleneOttey 11.19 The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver...
Champion. MerleneOttey also got silver in the 200 m. The women's 4 × 100 m team (Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, and MerleneOttey) also...
also provided a women's 150 m best that same decade, with Jamaican MerleneOttey setting a time of 16.46 seconds in Trapani in 1989 – a world best mark...
Favour Ofili also ran 22.20 A (2023), 22.36 (2023) and 22.46 (2022). MerleneOttey also twice ran 22.24 (1991), 22.34 (1989) and 22.37 (1991). JaMeesia...
them head on. Ottey resides in Scarbough with his wife and three children. He is a cousin of nine-time Olympic medallist MerleneOttey. 7-Time Canadian...
Jamaican legend MerleneOttey's record for the most Olympic medals won by a female track and field athlete, although most of Ottey's medal collection...
Gatlin ties Fraser-Pryce the most medals with 5, 2 gold and 3 silver. MerleneOttey and Carmelita Jeter are the only other athletes to have claimed four...
metres not awarded Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18 MerleneOttey 11.19 The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver...
the original (PDF) on 23 August 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022. MerleneOttey clocks 11.34, quips: ‘Why should I stop?’ Archived 2010-11-26 at the...
Olympics he defended his title to win his third Olympic 200 m gold medal. MerleneOttey is the most decorated athlete, having won four medals in the event (though...
and 6.11+ (1996). Gail Devers also ran 6.03 (1999) and 6.10 (1993). MerleneOttey also ran 6.06+ (1999), 6.08+ (1999) and 6.11+ (1996). Savatheda Fynes...
Alexander Simone Edwards Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Chris Gayle George Headley MerleneOttey Stafanie Taylor Theodore Whitmore Arthur Wint Elaine Thompson-Herah...
6 6.95 Marion Jones United States 7 March 1998 Maebashi 6 10 6.96 MerleneOttey Jamaica 14 February 1992 Madrid 10 6.96 Privalova #7 11 February 1993...
having won three straight titles (2005 to 2009). Two-time champion MerleneOttey has won more medals in the 200 m than any other athlete, reaching the...
Championships in Athletics (held in Tokyo, where she beat Gwen Torrence and MerleneOttey). She was also part of the winning 4 × 100 metres relay East German...
(10.54), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.60), Shericka Jackson (10.65), MerleneOttey (10.74), Kerron Stewart (10.75), and Veronica Campbell Brown (10.76)...
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