Aleesha Barber

Aleesha Barber
Personal information
Nationality Trinidad and Tobago
Born (1987-05-16) 16 May 1987 (age 37)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event100 metres hurdles
College teamPenn State Nittany Lions (USA)
Achievements and titles
Personal best100 m hurdles: 12.85 (2010)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Trinidad and Tobago
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Mayagüez 100 m hurdles

Aleesha Barber (born 16 May 1987) is a Trinidadian sprint hurdler.[1] She is a 2007 NCAA All-American honoree, a six-time Big Ten Conference champion, and a seven-time collegiate record holder. She set a personal best time of 12.85 seconds at the 2010 NCAA Eastern First Round Championships on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.[2] Barber also won a gold medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, clocking at 13.09 seconds.[3]

Barber represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 100 m hurdles. She ran in the fifth and final heat against seven other athletes, including Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton, and United States' Dawn Harper, who later dominated this event by winning an Olympic gold medal. She finished the race in fourth place by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Pilipenko, with a national record-breaking time of 13.01 seconds. Barber, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed eighteenth overall, and was ranked below two mandatory slots for the next round.[4]

Barber is also a member of the track and field team for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and a management graduate at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

See also

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleesha Barber". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Fifteen individuals, two relays qualify for NCAA Championships". Gant Daily. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Barber sprints to CAC hurdles gold". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 – Heat 5". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.


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