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The winning time beat the Games record which was Angela Whyte also from Canada finished third with After a very good first day ended with points Zelinka struggled in the Long Jump where she only managed 5. That performance put to bed any expectations she might have had of improving the Games and her own national record.

Yet, after a Just before the half way mark Zelinka suffered a cramp but she was still able to cross the finish line in Cuban Gretchen Quintana second with points got close to Zelinka after a 6. Lucimara da Silva from Brazil completed the podium line-up with points.

American Kibwe Johnson got the silver medal with his final throw of American A. Kruger finished fourth with a disappointing Mexican Ana Gabriela Guevara won her third consecutive title at m with a time of The Christine Amertil of the Bahamas was second with a time of Christopher claimed he could not hear the gun due to crowd noise — causing him a slow start. Christopher took silver in The other American entrant Nicole Leach completed the podium with a time of Rifka cleared the winning height on her first attempt while Forrester managed it on her second.

The year-old Mexican becomes the first athlete from her country to win a field event at the Games. Laverne Spencer from St. She was a member of Team Canada at the and Olympic Games. At the Athens Games she finished sixth in the m hurdles final. She is one of just two women in the world to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in the m hurdles every year since Her m hurdles time of She won a silver and a bronze medal at the Pan-Am Games. Whyte has not decided to compete in the hurdles or in the heptathlon.

She tallied 13 school records during her Idaho career and scored Whyte began her collegiate track career at the University of New Mexico and in two seasons tallied five school records and earned All-Mountain West Conference honors in the m hurdles in Whyte is a Idaho graduate with a degree in crime and justice studies.

She was inducted in the Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in Whyte served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho for six years, working with the sprints, hurdles and multi-events.

And that matches her personality.