Merlene Frazer

Merlene Frazer
Personal information
Born (1973-12-27) 27 December 1973
Trelawny, Jamaica
Sport
SportTrack and field
ClubTexas Longhorns
Medal record
Representing  Jamaica
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney 4 × 100 m relay
World Championships
1991 Tokyo 4 × 100 m relay
1997 Athens 4 × 100 m relay
1999 Seville 200 m
1999 Seville 4 × 100 m relay
2001 Edmonton 4 × 100 m relay
Pan American Games
1991 Havana 4 x 100m relay
1991 Havana 200m

Merlene Frazer (born 27 December 1973) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica who specialized in the 200 metres. In the 4 × 100 metres relay, she won a World Championship gold medal in 1991 and an Olympic silver medal in 2000. On both occasions, she ran in the preliminary rounds but not the final. Her biggest individual success was winning a World Championship bronze medal at 200 metres in 1997.

As part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 relay squad in 1991, she is the youngest World Champion ever.

Running for the Texas Longhorns track and field team, Frazer won the 1994 200 meters at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and won two indoor titles as well. She was inducted into the Texas sports hall of fame in 2017.

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