Alana Reid (born 20 January 2005) is a Jamaican

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who competes as a sprinter. At the age of 17, while attending

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, she won the bronze medal in the

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at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships. She later won gold at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships over

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. Reid is the Jamaican junior record holder for the women's

Early life

Alana Reid attends

School in Jamaica, where she trains under head coach Corey Bennett. In March 2023, she signed a letter of intent confirming she would attend the University of Oregon.

Career

17-year-old Alana Reid was a

bronze medallist at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships held in

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, Colombia, running a personal best time of 22.95 seconds. In March 2023 at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships held at the national stadium in

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, she ran a personal best of 11.16 s in the

semi-final, just 0.03 s off the

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’s championship record from 2001. In the final Reid ran 10.92 s to set a new national junior record, beating the 10.95 s set by Tina Clayton in 2022. It made her the fifth-fastest junior athlete of all time, behind only

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(10.89), Marlies Oelsner (10.88), and the United States'

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(10.83) and

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(10.75). It also placed her eleventh on the Jamaican all-time list. Prior to the race, Reid had predicted to her coach Corey Bennett that she would run sub 11-seconds. In April 2024, she was selected as part of the Jamaican team for the

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. She ran as part of the Jamaican 4x100m relay team which finished fifth at the

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. She then won gold in the 100 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024. She also won gold in the 4x100m relay at the Championships.

Personal life

Reid is the daughter of Karen Chisholm and Jamaican former football international Garfield Reid.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Alana 2005 births Living people Jamaican female sprinters 21st-century Jamaican women Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Jamaica