Kimberly Williams (born 3 November 1988) is a Jamaican

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er. She is a multiple time Jamaican National Champion. She was successful as a youth athlete, winning the 2003 CARIFTA Games (under 17 division) as a 14 year old. She was runner up at the

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. Later, she jumped for Florida State University and was a four time NCAA Champion. By the time she graduated in 2012, she was "the most decorated women's track and field athlete in Florida State history." Since then she is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion. She was a finalist in the

2016 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 ...

, ranking as high as 4th after two rounds of jumping, ultimately finishing seventh. She has qualified to represent Jamaica at the

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International competitions

Personal bests

Outdoor *

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

– 6.42 (+1.1 m/s, Tallahassee 2009) *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

– 14.69 (+1.6 m/s, Doha 2021) Indoor *

– 6.55 (Blacksburg 2011) *

– 14.62 (Belgrad 2022)

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* 1988 births Living people Jamaican female triple jumpers People from Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Jamaica Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists 20th-century Jamaican women 21st-century Jamaican women Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub