Brigitte Foster-Hylton

Brigitte Foster-Hylton

Foster-Hylton (at left)
Personal information
Nationality	Jamaica
Born	(1974-11-07) 7 November 1974 (age 49) Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Sport
Sport	Running
Event	100 m hurdles
Medal record Representing  Jamaica Women's athletics World Championships 2009 Berlin 100 m hurdles 2003 Paris 100 m hurdles 2005 Helsinki 100 m hurdles Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne 100 m hurdles Pan American Games 2003 San Domingo 100 m hurdles Continental Cup 2002 Madrid 100 m hurdles

Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton OD (born 7 November 1974 in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican 100m hurdler. She was the World Champion over 100m hurdles in 2009.

Like fellow Jamaican hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London she was not a successful hurdler until 2000, when she lowered her personal best by 65/100^{[clarification needed]}. Having improved greatly, she finished eighth at the 2000 Olympics. At Athens 2004 she pulled out of the semi-finals.

Foster-Hylton won the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships and the bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing Foster-Hylton finished sixth in the final, but was only two-hundredths of a second behind the silver medallist.

Foster-Hylton's greatest achievement came in 2009 when she became World Champion at 100 metres hurdles at the World Championships in Berlin. She had previously won the 100 metres hurdles titles at both the Pan American Games (in 2003) and the Commonwealth Games (in 2006).

She has been married to Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, since 2005. the group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, web |last=Ellington |first=Barbara |title=One on One with Patrick Hylton |work=The Gleaner |publisher=Gleaner Company |date=10 July 2011 |url =http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110710/out/out2.html |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>^[1][2]