Bobby-Gaye Wilkins (born 10 September 1988) is a

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n athlete who represented

at the

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, winning a bronze medal in the

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. Her first major international appearance came at the

2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Marrakesh, Morocco on July 13–July 17. The host stadium was Stade Sidi Youssef Ben Ali. The boy's 400 metres hurdles event was initially won by Sudan's Abdulagadir Idriss in a time ...

, where she reached the final of the

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. She was selected as a reserve for the relay at the

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, but she did not compete. She reached the semi-finals of the 400 m at the

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, but enjoyed greater success in the women's relay: along with Clora Williams,

Davita Prendergast Davita Prendergast (born 6 December 1984 in Westmoreland) is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 400 meters. __TOC__ Career She ran the 4 x 400 meters relay with Jamaica at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and th ...

and

Novlene Williams-Mills Novlene Hilaire Williams-Mills (''maiden name, née'', Williams; born 26 April 1982), is a retired Jamaican track and field athlete. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, 2007 World Championshi ...

, she won the

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in a Jamaican indoor record of 3:28.49 (also a Central American and Caribbean record). However, she failed her drug test at the competition, and the Jamaican team was disqualified. Her sample contained

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), making her the second international runner to test positive for the class of anabolic drugs, after

Thomas Goller Thomas Goller (born 28 October 1977 in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden) is a retired German hurdler. He was banned from competing for two years for doping. Biography He won a bronze medal in a 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Champ ...

. She received a two-year ban from competitive

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for the infraction.Lowe, Andrew (2010-09-09)
Wilkins banned for two years
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''. Retrieved on 2010-09-09.

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¹: Competed only in the heat.

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* * * 1988 births Living people People from Trelawny Parish Jamaican female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Jamaica Olympic bronze medalists for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Doping cases in athletics Jamaican sportspeople in doping cases Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Pan American Games silver medalists for Jamaica Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Olympic female sprinters 21st-century Jamaican women {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub

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