Brigitte Foster-Hylton OD (born 7 November 1974 in

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) is a

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n 100m hurdler. She was the World Champion over 100m hurdles in

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. Like fellow Jamaican hurdler

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she was not a successful hurdler until 2000, when she lowered her personal best by 65/100. Having improved greatly, she finished eighth at the

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. At

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she pulled out of the semi-finals. Foster-Hylton won the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships and the

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at the 2005 World Championships. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing Foster-Hylton finished sixth in the final, but was only two-hundredths of a second behind the silver medallist. Foster-Hylton's greatest achievement came in 2009 when she became World Champion at 100 metres hurdles at the

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in Berlin. She had previously won the 100 metres hurdles titles at both the Pan American Games (in 2003) and the Commonwealth Games (in 2006). She has been married to the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, Patrick Hylton, since 2005.

Personal bests

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: 11.17 (2003) *

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: 12.45 (2003)

International competitions

Circuit finals

Personal life

Foster- Hylton is married to Jamaican banker Patrick Hylton. In 2016 she gave birth to a son, a year before

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gave birth to hers in 2017.

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