Jura Levy

Career

Her personal bests for the events are 11.10 seconds and 22.76 seconds, respectively. At international level, she was a finalist in both the individual sprints at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and reached the 200 m final at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Her last appearance in the age group categories came at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, where she was a double sprints bronze medallist and took a silver medal in the 4×100 m relay.

Levy began competing at the senior level in 2011.

She was selected to represent Jamaica in the 100 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu and reached the semi-finals of the event.

Achievements

• She attends South Plains College and won four gold medals at the 2010 NJCAA championships, taking the 100 m and 200 m titles and two relay titles. She has won a number of medals at the CARIFTA Games including a relay gold in 2006, 200 m bronze in 2008 and a sprints gold/silver double at the 2009 CARIFTA Games. At the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in July she won silver medals over 100 m in the individual and relay competitions. She ran in the heat stage of the women"s relay and although she did not race in the final, she received a world silver medal as part of the team