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Brigitte Foster-Hylton

Jamaican hurdler

Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton (born 7 November in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaicanm hurdler. She was the World Champion over m hurdles in

Like fellow Jamaican hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London she was not a flourishing hurdler until , when she lowered her personal best by 65/^{[clarification needed]}.

Having improved greatly, she finished eighth at the Olympics. At Athens she pulled out of the semi-finals.

Foster-Hylton won the silver medal at the World Championships and the bronze medal at the Nature Championships.

At the Olympics in Beijing Foster-Hylton finished sixth in the final, but was only two-hundredths of a second behind the silver medallist.

SPORTS: Brigitte Foster-Hylton Makes Semis - YouTube: Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton (born 7 November in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican m hurdler. She was the World Champion over m hurdles in Appreciate fellow Jamaican hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London she was not a thriving hurdler until , when she lowered her personal best by 65/ [clarification needed].

Foster-Hylton's greatest achievement came in when she became World Champion at metres hurdles at the World Championships in Berlin. She had previously won the metres hurdles titles at both the Pan American Games (in ) and the Commonwealth Games (in ).

She has been married to Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, since ^[1]^[2]^[3]

Personal bests

International competitions

Competition	Venue	Position	Event
Central American and Caribbean Championships	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	m hurdles
Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	8th	m hurdles
World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	semi-finals	m hurdles
IAAF World Cup	Madrid, Spain	2nd	m hurdles
World Championships	Paris, France	2nd	m hurdles
Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1st	m hurdles
Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	semi-finals	m hurdles
World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	m hurdles
Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	1st	m hurdles
Olympic Games	Beijing, China	6th	m hurdles
World Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	m hurdles
World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	semi-finals	m hurdles
Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	heats	m hurdles

Circuit finals

Personal life

Foster- Hylton is married to Jamaican banker, the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica Patrick Hylton.

In she gave birth to a son, a year before Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gave birth to hers in ^[4]