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| Born | November 27, 1991 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Flying Angels Track Club[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | [4] Charles Allen[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye (born November 27, 1991) is a Canadian sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. She is the Canadian champion in both the 100 m and 200 m as of July 2018. Crystal also holds the 200 m record for Canada, having broken a record that stood for 34 years.[6][7] She competed in this event at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the semi-finals.[2][3][8] At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, she was eliminated in the heats after being disqualified for a lane infringement.
She has also run as part of the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team, and is part of the team that holds the Canadian record.[6] Set at the 2015 World Championships, Emmanuel-Ahye ran the first leg of the relay.[7] It broke the Canadian record set at the 2013 World Championships, where Emmanuel-Ahye also ran the lead off leg.[7]
When Emmanuel-Ahye won the 100 and 200 m titles at the Canadian Championships in 2011, she was the first woman to win both events since 2003.[7] She repeated the feat in 2016, 2017 and 2018.[9] Her race in the 200 m final at the 2017 World Championship was the first time a Canadian woman ran in the World Championship 200 m final since 1983.[9]
Her 100 m personal best was set at the 2018 NANAC Championships.[9]
Her mother Rosalind Emmanuel competed internationally for Barbados in athletics in the 1980s.[4]
She is married to Trinidadian and Tobagonian sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye.[10]
- ^ "Crystal Carly-Kristen Emmanuel". 2014 CWG bio. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016.
- ^ a b Crystal Emmanuel. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b "Crystal Emmanuel". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Crystal Emmanuel". nbcolympics.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016.
- ^ "Crystal Emmanuel". 2018 CWG bio. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- ^ a b "Crystal Emmanuel". worldathletics.org. Archived from the original on February 11, 2023. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Crystal Emmanuel". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
- ^ "Canadians Bingham, Emmanuel fail to qualify for women's 100m final". Sportsnet. July 31, 2021. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Crystal Emmanuel". Athletics Canada. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
- ^ Holmes, Jon. "Michelle-Lee Ahye, Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye are married Olympians". OutSports. Retrieved August 5, 2024.