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World championships 100m semi-finalist Kemba Nelson joins Reynaldo Walcott's Elite Performance training group
Written by Leighton Levy. Posted in Athletics. | 18 July 2022 | 1820 Views
Tags: Athletics, Elite Performance, Jamaica, Kemba Nelson, Reynaldo Walcott, Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce

World Championships 100m semi-finalist Kemba Nelson will be training with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce under the guidance of Reynaldo Walcott at Elite Performance come next season.

The club announced her arrival on Instagram on Monday.

The 22-year-old Nelson recently graduated from the University of Oregon after winning NCAA silver in the blue ribbon sprint at the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships in June. She followed up with a third-place finish at Jamaica’s National Championships and earned a spot in the 100m at the ongoing World Championships.

She was sixth in her semi-final in 11.25.

She goes to Elite Performance with a personal best of 7.05 in the 60m dash, the time she ran while winning the NCAA Indoor title in 2021; 10.88 in the 100m and 22.74 in the 200m.

She will join a growing cadre of elite athletes in the training group including World Championship bronze medallist Rushell Clayton and Julian Forte.

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