Pregnant

The 28-year-old Gordon-Powell, a member of Jamaica’s gold-medal winning 4x400m squad at the 2015 World Championships in Helsinki and a silver-medalist as part of the silver-medal team at the Rio 2016 Olympics, revealed her pregnancy on Instagram on Friday.

“I am so in love with these kicks,” she said beneath a picture of her in an advanced stage of pregnancy.

The revelation came a week after her former training partner Shaunae Miller-Uibo announced her pregnancy on social media.

Powell has enjoyed a successful career to date winning gold in the 400m at the NACAC U23 Championships in San Salvador in 2016. She was also the 2017 NCAA 400m outdoor champion.

Last year, after stepping up to the 800m, Gordon-Powell upset the more favoured Natoya Goule to win the Jamaican national title at the National Stadium in Kingston.

The 28-year-old two-time Olympic champion has announced that she is pregnant with her first child with husband Estonian decathlete Maicel Uibo, whom she married in 2017.

She made the announcement on Instagram on Saturday.

“New Year, New Blessing. We can’t wait to meet our little bundle of joy. Happy sixth anniversary,” she posted underneath pictures of her and her husband.

Miller-Uibo won Olympic 400 titles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro and defended her title at the 2020 Toyko Games held in 2021. She won her first world title in the 400m in Eugene, Oregon in 2022 after being the runner-up in Beijing in 2015 and Doha in 2019 when she was sensationally beaten by Salwa Eid Naser, who ran a blistering 48.14, the third-fastest time in history.

Last season, Miller-Uibo stated that 2022 was the last time she was going to be running the 400m and stepping down to the 200m.