Natoya Goule-Toppin (born 30 March 1991) is a Jamaican

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

. In the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since t ...

she is the

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champion, 2018 NACAC Championship silver medallist, and 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist. Goule is the current Jamaican record holder at the event both out- and indoors, and also for the indoor

1000 metres The 1000 metres is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. The 1000 yards, an imperial alternative, was sometimes also contested. All-time top 25 *h = hand timed *i = indoor performance *A = affected by ...

. She has represented Jamaica on numerous occasions, including both the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

and

2020 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games h ...

Running career

Youth

Goule established herself in athletics already by the age of 12, when she ran at the ISSA Athletic Championships in Jamaica. Representing Manchester High School, she holds records in the Girls' Class 1 1500m as well as the Class 3 800m, and she has accumulated 15 individual gold medals at the

Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships The ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships (better known as Champs) is an annual Jamaican high school track and field meet held by Jamaica's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association. The five day event, held during the last week before ...

, and 12 individual at the

CARIFTA Games The CARIFTA Games is an annual athletics competition founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). The games was first held in 1972 and consists of track and field events including sprint races, hurdles, middle distance track eve ...

International

Goule first attended

South Plains College South Plains College (SPC) is a public community college in Levelland, Texas. It operates satellite branches in Plainview, at the Reese Technology Center, formerly Reese Air Force Base, in western Lubbock, and the Lubbock Center near centra ...

and ran for their track team. At around the same time South Plains was already recruiting other Jamaican runners, such as Kemoy Campbell. Eventually, however, she would go on to study and run at

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

. After a few seasons at LSU she transferred to Clemson. In 2014, racing in the heats, she was a member of Jamaica's women's 4x400 relay team which won the silver medal at the

2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the fifteenth edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the IAAF. The event was held between 7–9 March 2014 at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland. Prepa ...

. Goule has won races at numerous meetings; for example, in 2022, she won two 800 metres indoor events ( NY New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, and World Indoor Tour's

Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais The Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (formerly Meeting Pas de Calais) also called Meeting International de Liévin (''International Meeting of Liévin'') is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in February in Liévin ...

where she improved her Jamaican indoor record to 1:58.46), and a 1000-metres indoor event (Clemson Invitational,

Clemson, SC Clemson () is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is home to Clemson University; in 2015, ''the Princeton Review'' cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for " town-and-gown" ...

). She placed fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade with a time of 2:01.18.

Achievements

International competitions

Other competitions

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goule, Natoya 1991 births Living people Jamaican female middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Manchester Parish Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Jamaica Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Jamaican Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Pan American Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Jamaican women 21st-century Jamaican people Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games