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Andrenette Knight
Jamaican athlete (born 1996) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrenette Knight (born 19 November 1996) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes over 400m hurdles.[1]
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Knight attended Vere Technical High School in Hayes, Jamaica where she ran in the relay team with Shericka Jackson. She then studied at the University of Virginia and left the collegiate system with a personal best of 55.75 seconds for the 400m hurdles. In 2022, she lowered this to 53.39 in Nashville.[2] Knight won two relay silver medals at the 2022 NACAC Championships.[3]
In 2023, she finished as runner-up at the Jamaican national championships.[4] She ran a personal best of 53.26s at the Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix in July 2023.[5] She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, and qualified for the final of the 400m hurdles.[6][7]
In February 2024, she was selected to run for Jamaica at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[8] She was part of the 4x400m relay team which reached the final in Glasgow.[9] In June 2024, she finished third in the 400m hurdles at the 2024 Diamond League event in Stockholm.[10] She competed in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[11][12]
She was runner-up to Femke Bol in 53.90 in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the 2025 Diamond League.[13] In May 2025, she was named as a challenger for the long hurdles category at the 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia.[14] She was the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the Diamond League event at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025.[15] She was runner-up in the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in 54.52 seconds.[16] She finished fifth in Monaco at the 2025 Herculis, and third at the 2025 London Athletics Meet, in July 2025.[17][18]
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