Profile details
- Born
- 2 Aug 1983
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Country
- Jamaica
- Sport
- Athletics
- Discipline
- Athletics
- Category
- Women
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Competition Appearances
1 recorded appearance, most significant first.
- ·2008 Summer Olympics
Career Timeline
- 2008Competed at 2008 Summer Olympics
Statistics
About
Chelsea Hammond (born 2 August 1983 in New York City) is a Jamaican long jumper, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She nearly missed out of the podium in the women's long jump, when Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare obtained her best possible mark of 6.91 metres at her third attempt, to claim the bronze medal. In 2017, the second-place finisher, Tatyana Lebedeva had a positive test for turinabol and was disqualified from her silver medal.
Biography adapted from Chelsea Hammond on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.