Jillian Camarena-Williams
Camarena-Williams at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jillian Mary Camarena-Williams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Jill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1982-03-02) March 2, 1982 (age 42) Woodland, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 249 lb (113 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Shot Put | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on August 6, 2012 |
Jillian Mary "Jill" Camarena-Williams (born March 2, 1982) is an American retired track and field athlete who competes in the shot put. She competed at the 2012 and 2008 Beijing Olympics and has represented the United States both indoor and outdoors at World Championship-level.
She took back-to-back titles in the shot put at the Pan American Junior Championships in 1999 and 2001.[1] Domestically, she is a two-time USA Outdoor Champion in the shot put, having won in 2006 and 2010.[2] Camarena-Williams set an American indoor record in the shot put to win at the 2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, recording a mark of 19.87 meters to improve upon Ramona Pagel's record which had stood since 1987.[3]
Born in Woodland, California, she is listed at 5 foot 10 inches tall and 250 lbs.[2] She did her undergraduate work at Stanford University and graduate studies at Brigham Young University. She is a Latter-day Saint.[4] Camarena-Williams married her physiotherapist, Dustin Williams, in 2010.[5] On July 29, 2016 - Camarena-Williams announced the four city team challenge at Track Town, USA in Eugene, Oregon on ESPN was her final competition.[6][7]
Doping ban
In October 2013, Camarena-Williams was hit with a six-month suspension from the US Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for clomiphene. The substance was discovered in an out-of-competition test conducted on July 1. The punishment was implemented retrospectively, meaning she was cleared to compete again on January 1, 2014.[8]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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1999 | Pan American Junior Championships | Tampa, United States | 1st | Shot put |
2001 | Pan American Junior Championships | Santa Fe, Argentina | 1st | Shot put |
2006 | World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 7th | Shot put |
World Cup | Athens, Greece | 6th | Shot put | |
2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 10th (qualifiers) | Shot put |
2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain | 14th (qualifiers) | Shot put |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 12th | Shot put | |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 12th (qualifiers) | Shot put |
2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 6th | Shot put |
DécaNation | Annecy, France | 1st | Shot put | |
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 2nd | Shot put |
DécaNation | Nice, France | 1st | Shot put | |
2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 3rd | Shot put |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 16th (qualifiers) | Shot put | |
2015 | Pan American Games | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 2nd | Shot put |
NACAC Championships | San Jose, Costa Rica | 1st | Shot put |
References
- ^ Pan American Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-01.
- ^ a b Jillian Camarena
- ^ Lee, Kirby (2011-02-28). National records for Camarena-Williams and Suhr top seven world leads in Albuquerque – USA indoor champs WRAP. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-03-01.
- ^ "All the way back and on to Beijing", Church News, August 2, 2008.
- ^ Continental Cup Biographical Summaries – Camarena-Williams, Jill Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-03-01.
- ^ "Interview with ESPN announcing her last competition". ESPN. July 29, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- ^ @Jilly_Willy24 (July 30, 2016). "Jillian confirming her announcement after the interview with ESPN announcing her last competition" (Tweet). Retrieved November 9, 2016 – via Twitter.
- ^ USADA suspends shot putter Jillian Camarena-Williams 6 months for positive test. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
External links
- Jillian Camarena-Williams at World Athletics
- Jillian Camarena-Williams at legacy.USATF.org (archived)
- Jillian Camarena-Williams at Team USA (archive December 19, 2022)
- Jillian Camarena-Williams at Olympics.com
- Jill Camarena-Williams at Olympedia
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1923: Bertha Christophel
- 1924: Ester Behring
- 1925–28: Lillian Copeland
- 1929–30: Rena MacDonald
- 1931: Lillian Copeland
- 1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1933: Catherine Rutherford
- 1934: Not held
- 1935: Rena MacDonald
- 1936: Helen Stephens
- 1937: Gretel Bergmann
- 1938–41: Catherine Fellmeth
- 1942: Ramona Harris
- 1943: Frances Gorn-Sobczak (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1944: Dorothy Dodson
- 1945: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Helen Steward
- 1946–47: Dorothy Dodson
- 1948: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1949: Amelia Wood
- 1950: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Amelia Wood
- 1951: Amelia Wood
- 1952: Amelia Wood & Janet Dicks
- 1953: Amelia Wood
- 1954: Lois Testa
- 1955: Wanda Wejzgrowicz
- 1956–62: Earlene Brown
- 1963: Sharon Shepherd
- 1964: Earlene Brown
- 1965–66: Lynn Graham
- 1967–68: Maren Seidler
- 1969–71: Lynn Graham
- 1972–79: Maren Seidler
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Maren Seidler
- 1981: Denise Wood
- 1982: María Elena Sarría (CUB) * Denise Wood (3)
- 1983: Denise Wood
- 1984: Ria Stalman (NED) * Lorna Griffin
- 1985–87: Ramona Pagel
- 1988: Connie Price
- 1989: Ramona Pagel
- 1990: Connie Price
- 1991: Ramona Pagel
- 1992: Connie Price-Smith
USA Track & Field
- 1993–2000: Connie Price-Smith
- 2001: Seilala Sua
- 2002: Teri Steer
- 2003: Kristin Heaston
- 2004: Laura Gerraughty
- 2005: Kristin Heaston
- 2006: Jillian Camarena
- 2007: Kristin Heaston
- 2008–09: Michelle Carter
- 2010: Jillian Camarena
- 2011: Michelle Carter
- 2012: Jillian Camarena-Williams
- 2013–16: Michelle Carter
- 2017: Raven Saunders
- 2018: Maggie Ewen
- 2019: Chase Ealey
- 20212020 OT: Jessica Ramsey
- 2022: Chase Ealey
- 2023: Maggie Ewen
- Since 1992, the championships has incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.