Julien Alfred Biography: Julien Alfred has been gaining headlines recently because of her exceptional performance at the Paris Olympics 2024.
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Julien Alfred is a Saint Lucian sprinter who won the gold medal in the 100 track and field event at the Paris Olympic 2024 by defeating the previous fastest woman in the world, Sha’Carri Richardson of the USA team.
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🇱🇨's Julien Alfred storms to the Olympic 100m gold medal with 10.72 🤩
That's the first medal in the history of the Olympic Games for her country. #Paris2024 #OlympicGames pic.twitter.com/3c92Ql9EoP
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 3, 2024
She broke the national record of 10.75s which was set by Sha’Carri Richardson and set a new national record of 10.72s in the final 100m track and field event.
Julien Alfred was the first Olympic athlete to win the first-ever Olympic medal for Saint Lucia.
Let’s get to know more about Julien Alfred’s life, nationality, age, height, career, medals, and many other things.
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Julien Alfred Biography: Age
Julien Alfred who is from Saint Lucia was born on 10 June 2001 and she is 23 years old.
Alfred’s Height and Weight
According to recent updates, the Saint Lucian sprinter and the track and field Olympic athlete’s height is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 inch), and Julien Alfred weighs around 57 kg.
Julien Alfred Early Life
Julien Alfred was born in the town of Ciceron in the south of Castries, which is the capital of Saint Lucia. In 2013, She did her studies at Leon Hess Comprehensive Secondary School in Saint Lucia and passed out in 2015.
In 2015, she attended Saint Catherine High in Jamaica and finished her higher studies in 2018. To pursue a bachelor’s degree in Youth & Community Studies, Julien Alfred joined the University of Texas in the United States and while there she focused and gave time to both studies and sports.
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Alfred Biography: Career
In 2015, Julien Alfred won the U15 title in Central America and the Caribbean and was named as Saint Lucia’s Junior Sportswoman of the Year.
In 2017, she won the 100-meter race as a Junior athlete at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahama. Alfred also came in second place at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2022, at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Julien Alfred set the national record and was the champion in the 60m event. At the Big 12 Conference Championships, she became the top 30 fastest women ever, setting a record of 10.81 s in preliminaries.
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In 2023, she became the world’s fourth fastest woman by setting a new world record in the 200 m event. In the Istvan Gyulai Memorial women’s 100-meter race, she won the race with a time of 10.89 seconds.
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, she won the women’s 60-meter race. She also came second in the 100-meter race at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.
In London, at the Diamond League meeting, she set a new national record of 21.86 seconds in the 200m race and also won the 100-meter race in Monaco.
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Parents
Julien Alfred parents were also from Saint Lucia. However, she had to go through a lot of difficulties when she lost her father Julian Hamilton at the age of 12.
Julien Alfred Medals
- She won the Olympic Gold Medal in the 100m track and field event at the Paris Olympics 2024.
- Julien won the gold medal in the 60m event at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Alfred won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2022. - She also won a silver medal in the 100m at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
- She also won the Bowerman award for securing the NCAA top female track and field athlete in 2023.
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